Luzy, Nièvre
Luzy () is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.
Geography
The village is located in the middle of the commune, on the right bank of the river Alène.
Demographics
See also
*Communes of the Nièvre department
*Parc naturel r ...
Nièvre
Nièvre () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central-east France. Named after the river Nièvre, it had a population of 204,452 in 2019.Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche
The Socialists and affiliated group (french: groupe Socialistes et apparentés ) is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of the Socialist Party (PS).
History
The first socialist parliamentary group emerge ...
.
Education
Gorce earned a law degree in
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
, then graduated from Sciences Po in 1981 and from
ENA
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in 1987 alongside future National Assembly colleague Christian Paul.
Professional career
As the administrator of Paris, then as sub-prefect and civil administrator, Gorce collaborated with Maurice Benassayag, interministerial delegate of Rapatriés (1988-1989), Pierre Joxe at the Ministry of the Interior (1989-1991), Edith Cresson in Matignon (1991-1992), and with François Mitterrand as the president of the Republic (1992-1995).
Political career
Gorce is a member of the Socialist Party, which he joined in 1974. He led the New Voice movement and initiated the Renovators movement within the Socialist Party, notably alongside
Manuel Valls
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Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire () is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France. The commune was formed in 1973 by the merger of the former communes Cosne-sur-Loire and Cours.
Geography
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire lies on the right bank of the L ...
, he nevertheless served as municipal counselor of the city until 2001. He was elected mayor of
La Charité-sur-Loire
La Charité-sur-Loire (before 1961: ''La Charité'') is a commune in the Nièvre department and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.
Geography
La Charité-sur-Loire lies on the right, eastern bank of the river Loire, about 25 km n ...
in March 2001, and later re-elected in March 2008. As mayor, he launched a program to rehabilitate the city's historic center, founded the Festival du Mot with Marc Lecarpentier, and earned La Charité-sur-Loire the "city of art and history" label. He chose not to run for mayor in 2014 but remained a municipal councilor in the majority list until December 2017, when he left the post.
Gorce was elected as a delegate to the second constituency of
Nièvre
Nièvre () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central-east France. Named after the river Nièvre, it had a population of 204,452 in 2019.35-hour week law. During he second term, he and
Jean Leonetti
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co-chaired the information mission on end-of-life support, which led to the unanimous adoption of the Law on the rights of patients and the end of life by the National Assembly. For this action, Gorce received the ''Trombinoscope'' prize of "Delegate of the Year" in 2004.
Supporting
Ségolène Royal
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Royal was president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council from 2004 to 201 ...
during the 2007 presidential campaign, in June he resigned from the national bodies of the PS and called for the resignation of Prime Secretary François Hollande, whom he held responsible for the defeat.
Still supporting Ségolène Royal at the 2008 Reims Congress, he returned briefly to the leadership of the Socialist Party (as national secretary of the PS responsible for exclusion), before leaving it definitively a few months later.
In 2009, he opposed the bill aimed at liberalizing internet gambling, judging the opening of this market to be inappropriate, in particular for reasons of public health.
In September 2009, he rejoined the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, while remaining vice-president of human rights organization Socialist Related. As a member of these organizations, he published a report on the situation in
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with the delegate Roland Blum. He also campaigned to obtain information about the disappearance of Chadian politician and opposition leader
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Early life and education
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Gorce was elected senator of Nièvre in September 2011 with 56.35% of the vote.
In 2011, denouncing the lack of preparation of the Socialist Party program, he decided not to join the campaign team of candidate François Hollande.
In 2014, he chaired the joint information mission "New role and new strategy for the European Union in global Internet governance".
In 2015, he was co-rapporteur of the fact-finding mission “Relations with Russia: how to break the deadlock?".
In 2016, he co-chaired the working group on the refugee crisis.
He was a member of Arnaud Montebourg's campaign team for the 2017 citizen primary. After the victory of Benoît Hamon, Gorce was appointed thematic manager of his presidential campaign.
Gorce was a candidate in the 2017 legislative elections in the first constituency of Nièvre, ultimately finishing third. After the loss, he announced his withdrawal from municipal and parliamentary life, and decided not to enter in the senatorial elections of the same year. In October 2018, he left the PS and joined the Republican and Socialist Left Party, created by
Marie-Noëlle Lienemann
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and
Emmanuel Maurel
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, where he led "Our Common Causes."
Member of Cnil
Between 2011 and 2016, Gorce was a member of the National Commission for Information and Liberties (Cnil). He received compensation for this even though article 4 of ordinance n° 58-1210 prohibits such action.. As a member of Cnil, he was behind a bill to ban "comfort biometrics" and a parliamentary report concerning
open data
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from the perspective of personal data protection and the right to privacy.