Hermeline Malherbe-Laurent

Hermeline Malherbe-Laurent
President of the Departmental Council of Pyrénées-Orientales
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 21, 2010
Preceded by
  • Christian Bourquin
  • Jean-Jacques Lopez (interim)
Departmental councilor of Pyrénées-Orientales
Incumbent
Assumed office
March 21, 2008
Constituency
Senator of the Pyrénées-Orientales
In office
August 27, 2014 – October 1, 2017
Personal details
Born (1969-02-18) February 18, 1969 (age 55)
Carvin, Pas-de-Calais
Political partyPS
AwardsChevalier de l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur

Hermeline Malherbe, born Hermeline Laurent on February 18, 1969 in Carvin (Pas-de-Calais), is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party, she has been president of the departmental council of Pyrénées-Orientales since November 21, 2010, and senator for Pyrénées-Orientales from 2014 to 2017, the day after the death of Christian Bourquin, for whom she was the substitute.[1]

Biography

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A former member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth (French: Jeunesses communistes révolutionnaires), she joined Ecology Generation when it was created in 1990.[2] She became a socialist member in 2007 in the Catalan federation of the Socialist Party. She was excluded in 2010 because of her support for Georges Frêche during the regional elections and then reinstated in November 2011.[3]

Hermeline Malherbe was elected for the first time, in Seine-et-Marne in 2001 as the municipal councilor of Meaux.[4]

Arriving in 2005 in Pyrénées-Orientales, she was elected general councilor from the canton of Perpignan-8 in 2008.[5] She chaired the commission for sustainable development and access for people with disabilities at the General Council.

She was elected regional councilor in 2010 and became vice-president of the Languedoc-Roussillon region.[6] In November 2010, she was elected president of the general council of Pyrénées-Orientales,[7] following the resignation of Christian Bourquin, and was elected president of the Languedoc-Roussillon region after the death of Georges Frêche.[8]

Substitute for Christian Bourquin during the 2011 senatorial elections, she succeeded him in the Senate after his death on August 26, 2014, and chose the group of the Social and European Democratic Rally (RDSE).[9] During the discussion on the bill on the delimitation of the regions, she defended the separation of the Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées regions in the Senate.

In March 2015, she was elected departmental councilor from the canton of Perpignan-6[10] in tandem with Jean Roque. On April 2, she was elected to the presidency of the department.[11][12]

She spoke out against plain cigarette packs during debates in the Senate on the health system modernization law on September 16, 2015, against the advice of the government.[13]

She ran in the 2017 senatorial elections, unsuccessfully. The candidate of Les Républicains François Calvet was elected senator for the department of Pyrénées-Orientales in the first round, and a second LR candidate, Jean Sol, won in the second round.[14]

Hermeline Malherbe was elevated to the rank of Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour during the 2020 New Year's promotion.[15][16]

In January 2022, she confirmed the 'Oui au Pays Catalan' organisation, who launched a petition for a name change in 2017, a referendum by the end of the year to choose the new name of the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.[17][18][19]

References

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  1. ^ "Pyrénées-Orientales. Hermeline Malherbe réélue présidente du département, voici ses 10 vice-présidents". actu.fr (in French). 2 July 2021. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  2. ^ "Bourquin : la succession". L'Agglorieuse. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  3. ^ "P-O : Tous les exclus du PS réintégrés… Christian Bourquin compris!". ouillade.eu (in French). 30 November 2011. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  4. ^ "Une frêchiste probablement à la tête des Pyrénées-Orientales". www.20minutes.fr (in French). 9 November 2010. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  5. ^ "Résultats des élections cantonales 2008". mobile.interieur.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  6. ^ "Hermeline Malherbe-Laurent (DVG) élue à la tête des Pyrénées-Orientales". Le Point (in French). 2010-11-21. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  7. ^ "Hermeline Malherbe : le point après un an de présidence". lindependant.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  8. ^ "Hermeline Malherbe, des Pyrénées-Orientales au Sénat". France 3 Occitanie (in French). 17 September 2014. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  9. ^ Cougnenc, Rémy. "Hermeline Malherbe (PS) devient sénatrice après le décès de Christian #Bourquin". www.lamarseillaise.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  10. ^ "L'Assemblée départementale - Conseil Départemental des Pyrénées-Orientales". Archived from the original on 2015-05-02. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  11. ^ "Départementales : la socialiste Hermeline Malherbe élue présidente du conseil départemental des Pyrénées-Orientales". France 3 Occitanie (in French). 4 February 2015. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  12. ^ "Hermeline Malherbe de nouveau à la tête des Pyrénées-Orientales". France Bleu (in French). 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  13. ^ "Modernisation du système de santé" (PDF). www.senat.fr (in French). 2015-09-16. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  14. ^ "François Calvet et Jean Sol élus, deux sénateurs Républicains pour les P.-O". lindependant.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  15. ^ "Perpignan : Hermeline Malherbe nommée au grade de Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur". lindependant.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  16. ^ "Décret du 31 décembre 2019 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  17. ^ "Nouveau nom des Pyrénées-Orientales, le département veut éviter la polémique du baptême de la région Occitanie". France Bleu (in French). 2022-01-31. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  18. ^ "Le département des Pyrénées-Orientales pourrait bientôt changer de nom". actu.fr (in French). 31 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  19. ^ "Bientôt un nouveau nom pour les Pyrénées-Orientales ?". frontpopulaire.fr. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
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