Kader Arif

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Kader Arif
Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces
In office 2012–2014
President	François Hollande
Prime Minister	Jean-Marc Ayrault Manuel Valls
Preceded by	Marc Laffineur
Succeeded by	Jean-Marc Todeschini
Member of the European Parliament
In office 2004–2012
Constituency	South-East France
Personal details
Born	(1959-07-03) 3 July 1959 (age 65) Algiers, Algeria
Political party	French Socialist Party  EU Party of European Socialists

Kader Arif (Arabic: قادر عريف; born 3 July 1959 in Algiers) is a French politician of the French Socialist Party (PS) who served as Junior Minister for Veterans to the French Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian from 2012 until 2014. Prior to this, he was a Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France.

• Master's degree in communications
• Special adviser to Lionel Jospin (1988–1992)
• Chargé d'affaires (1992–1995)
• Regional director of a tour operator (1995–1999)
• University manager (1999–2001)

He played as hooker for the French rugby union club Castres Olympique.^[1]

• First federal secretary, Haute-Garonne Socialist Party (1999–2008)
• Member of the Socialist Party national bureau (since 2000)
• Socialist Party national secretary, with responsibility for globalisation
• Member of Castanet-Tolosan Municipal Council, with responsibility for sport (1995–2001)

During his time as Member of the European Parliament, Arif served on the Committee on International Trade. He was also a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and a member of the delegations to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Arif endorsed François Hollande as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.^[2]

In January 2012, Arif resigned as the European Parliament's rapporteur of the ACTA agreement in protest against the ACTA agreement.^[3]

On 16 May 2012, Arif was appointed Junior Minister for Veterans at the French Ministry of Defence in the government of Jean-Marc Ayrault by President François Hollande.^[4]

On 21 November 2014, Arif resigned due to suspicion on fraud and opening of judicial inquiry.^[5][6]

In the Socialist Party's 2017 primaries, Arif supported Vincent Peillon as the party's candidate for the presidential election later that year.^[7]

Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2018 convention in Aubervilliers, Arif publicly endorsed Olivier Faure as candidate for the party's leadership.^[8]

• European Parliament election, 2004
• Members of the European Parliament for France 2009–2014

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• Official website (in French)
• European Parliament biography^{[permanent dead link‍]}
• Declaration of financial interests^{[permanent dead link‍]} (in French)