Catherine Génisson (born 22 April 1949) is French politician of the

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(PS) who represented the Pas-de-Calais department in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2011 and later in the French Senate from 2011 to 2017.

Political career

The daughter of painter , Génisson was first elected to the French assembly in 1997 and was reelected in 2002 and 2007. She was elected to the French senate on September 25, 2011. Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2008 convention in Reims, Génisson publicly endorsed

Martine Aubry Martine Louise Marie Aubry (; née Delors; born 8 August 1950) is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party (''Parti Socialiste'', or PS) from November 2008 to April 2012, and has been the Mayor (France), Mayo ...

as candidate to succeed François Hollande at the party's leadership. In the party's 2011 primaries, she endorsed Aubry as its candidate for the

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.Primaire PS: 39 sénateurs PS apportent leur soutien à Aubry
'' Le Point'', 13 October 2011.

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