Patrick Bloche (; born 4 July 1956 in

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) is a French politician of the

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(PS) who served as a member of the

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from 1997 to 2017. In parliament, he was part of the SRC parliamentary group.

Political career

Career in local politics

Bloche has been a member of the

since the age of 16 (1972), is a member of the General Council of

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, and has been a member of the Paris

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since June 1995. First, a close collaborator of

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, Bloche is a long-standing member of

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. But in 1991, he was one of the supporters of the commitment of France in the

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, and for this reason he broke definitively with

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and Georges Sarre. In January 2000, Bloche was supported by

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and

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(Chairman of the Socialist Group in the Council of Paris), and he was elected with over 61% of the votes of members to the post of first secretary of the

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Paris federation, where he succeeded Jean-Marie Le Guen, who resigned on 23 November 1999.

Member of the National Assembly, 1997–2017

Bloche served as a member of parliament for the Socialist Party from 1997, the year of the dissolution of the National Assembly by

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, in the 7th district of Paris (XI e XII arrondissement). He was president of the Law Committee and Rapporteur of the proposed Act PACS, which he was co-authored with Jean-Pierre Michel. Bloche led the Socialist list in

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, in the XIth district, and was elected Mayor of the Borough, on 29 March 2008. In 2009, he opposed the draft

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, and defended as an alternative the blanket license. In 2011, he opposed a "

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" amendment, calling it an « amendement Wikipédia ». On 13 July 2011 Bloche joined the campaign team of

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for the PS primaries, which she lost to

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. Within the campaign team, he was responsible, along with

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, for culture and media. In parliament, Bloche served as president of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education during the Hollande government. The committee voted in favour of an amendment proposed by

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, and favoured by Yves Durand,

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and

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among others, that replaced the biological concepts of "sex", with the sociological concepts of "

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" in the national elementary curriculum. The elementary curriculum was successfully revised in September 2013 under the name " l'ABCD de l'egalite".gouvernement.fr: "Les ABCD de l’égalité : un outil pour lutter dès l’école contre les inégalités filles-garçons"
consulted July 2014 In addition to his committee assignments, Bloche served as vice chairman of the Study Group on the issue of Tibet. Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2017 primaries, Bloche endorsed

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as the party's candidate for the

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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''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bloche, Patrick 1956 births Living people Politicians from Neuilly-sur-Seine Socialist Party (France) politicians French city councillors Tibet freedom activists Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Councillors of Paris