Pierre Cohen (born 20 March 1950) is a member of the
National Assembly of France
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. He represents the
Haute-Garonne
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department,
and is a member of the
Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left group.
Early life
Cohen was born in
Bizerte
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, a town in North
Tunisia
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to a
Tunisian Jewish father and French
Catholic
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mother.
Political career
In the
2008 French municipal elections
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Municipal councilors, and the may ...
, Cohen became mayor of
Toulouse
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when he narrowly defeated
UMP incumbent
Jean-Luc Moudenc
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. However, at the next elections in
2014
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, Moudenc defeated Cohen in a rematch to re-take the job.
Ahead of the Socialist Party's
2017 primaries, Cohen endorsed
Benoît Hamon as the party's candidate for the
presidential election
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Albania
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Chile
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later that year.
[Grégoire Poussielgue and Pierre-Alain Furbury (15 December 2016)]
Primaire du PS : Valls engrange les soutiens
'' Les Échos''.
See also
References
1950 births
Living people
People from Bizerte
French people of Tunisian-Jewish descent
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Mayors of Toulouse
Paul Sabatier University alumni
Politicians from Occitania (administrative region)
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