Cécile Duflot
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Cécile Duflot in 2012
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| Member of the French National Assembly for Paris | |
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Assumed office 20 June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Danièle Hoffman-Rispal |
| Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing (French: Ministre de l’Egalité des Territoires et du Logement) | |
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In office 16 May 2012 – 2 April 2014 |
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| President | François Hollande |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Marc Ayrault |
| Preceded by | Benoist Apparu |
| Succeeded by | Sylvia Pinel |
| National Secretary of Europe Ecology – The Greens | |
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In office 16 November 2006 – 30 November 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Yann Wehrling |
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1 April 1975 Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | Europe Ecology – The Greens |
| Alma mater |
Paris Diderot University ESSEC Business School |
Cécile Duflot (French pronunciation: [se.sil dy.flo]; born 1 April 1975 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Val-de-Marne) is a French politician.
She was Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing (French: Ministre de l’Egalité des Territoires et du Logement) in the Ayrault Cabinet. Until June 2012, she was Party Secretary (i.e. leader) of Europe Ecology – The Greens, a position she held from November 2006 and was, with Jean-Luc Bennahmias, the only Green leader to have served two consecutive terms (although Dominique Plancke served three non-consecutive ones). In May 2012 she announced her resignation from this role.
The eldest daughter of a railway unionist and a physics and chemistry teacher (who was herself also a unionist), Cécile Duflot spent her childhood and adolescence in the district of Montereau-Fault-Yonne before returning to her native town, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, in the early 1990s. She is a town planner by profession, a graduate of the ESSEC Business School (French Business School), and holds a master's degree in Geography.
Her first activist commitments were in the Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne ("Young Christian Workers") and the Ligue pour la protection des oiseaux ("Birds' Protection League").
A divorcée, Cécile Duflot is the mother of three girls and a boy in a step-family.
After joining The Greens in 2001, she stood in the municipal elections at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges that same year. She became an opposition municipal councillor in the town in June 2004.
In 2003, she joined the electoral college of the Greens; she organised the acquisition of their national headquarters. She became spokesperson for the party in January 2005. That same year on World Water Day, she swam in the Seine in Paris with three other members of the electoral college to denounce river pollution in France and to match Jacques Chirac's promise, when he was Mayor of Paris, to swim in the Seine.
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