Michèle SABBAN

Vice-President of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France, in charge of personnel, general administration and government contracts
Vice-President of Socialist International Women
Acting President of the Assembly of European Regions

Born 28 June 1954 in Kef, Tunisia
Married, three children
Fine Arts Degree 


POLITICAL CAREER AND AFFILIATION:

• Member of the Socialist Party since 1981;
  
  
• Member of the National Council of the Socialist Party from 1993 to present;
  
  
• Technical Advisor in charge of the advancement of women (with Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Christian Sautter, and then with Laurent Fabius from the 10 June 1997 until 2002);
  
  
• National Secretary of the Socialist Party in 1995 and of the Rights of Women from November 1977 until 2003;
  
  
• First Secretary of the Federation of the Socialist Party of Val-de-Marne since 1997;
  
  
• Vice-President of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France, in charge of General Administration and Personnel, from March 1998 until the 28 March 2004;
  
  
• Re-elected 2 April 2004 as Vice-President of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France, in charge of personnel, general administration and government contracts.

Active in many associations, notably for the protection of Human Rights, she has for a long time been committed to the acknowledgement of the place of Women in the political arena and actively participated with Lionel Jospin, First Secretary of the Socialist Party, for the establishment of a reserved constituency in the legislators of 1997 for female candidatures, and then at his side in the legal setting on the legal access of women and men into electoral delegations and elective functions and its implementation within the Socialist Party.

Her presence at the Regional Council of Ile-de-France as Vice-President in charge of general administration and personnel with Jean-Paul Huchon since March 1998 allows her to push for Val-de-Marne, in the framework of State/Region Agreement, developing the majority of the documents along with the General Council of her department.

Member of the Socialist International Women and Vice-President of the Socialist International Women Mediterranean North and South since 2003.

Member of the European Socialist Party of the group on 'Equal Opportunities'.

Member of the bureau of the Assembly of European Regions and President of the working group on Equal Opportunities.

She loves contemporary history, painting, her family and friends. She passionately loves public life and her battle for equality between men and women; she wishes to lead it with you.