Delphine Batho

In May 2020, she joined and became vice-president of the new group Ecology Democracy Solidarity, essentially composed of former members of the group La République en Marche.

In parliament, Batho serves on the Committee on Economic Affairs. In this capacity, she was the parliament’s rapporteur on a ban of Black Friday promotions.

In November 2019, his amendment to the anti-waste bill, aimed at banning "Black Friday" promotion campaigns by integrating them into "aggressive commercial practices", was adopted in committee .

Batho declared her intention to be a candidate for the leadership of the Socialist Party at the Aubervilliers Congress in 2018, but her application was ultimately rejected due to a lack of support. Batho announced in an interview published on 2 May 2018 that she was quitting the Socialist Party to become president of Ecology Generation, and would also quit the New Left group in the National Assembly.

At the National Assembly, in 2016, it adopted the amendment to the biodiversity law banning neonicotinoids, bee killer pesticides; the law comes into force on September 1, 2018.

In 2018, she initiated the amendment to ban glyphosate with a term in 2021; his proposal is massively rejected, and she denounces the acts of lobbyists in the National Assembly.Indeed, Agrochemical interests were able to obtain the Batho's amendment before the members of the National Assembly .

On May 2, 2018, she announced that she is leaving the Socialist Party and that she will take over the helm of Ecology Generation in September, succeeding Yves Piétrasanta. She also left the New Left group in the National Assembly and joined the non-registered. She is elected new president of Ecology Generation on September 10, 2018 .

During the 2017 French legislative election, she was re-elected with 56.94% of the vote against the LREM's candidate, Christine Heintz (43.06%), who had preceded her during the first round and had received the support of Ségolène Royal .

Batho joined the French Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste – PS) in the mid-1990s as a militant in the Grigny (Essonne) section. She participated, together with Julien Dray, in the party's Socialist Left tendency. At the party's Grenoble Congress she was elected to the national executive committee of the PS. In 2003, during the breakup of the socialist left, she remained loyal to Dray, who employed her at the Île-de-France Regional Council, where she was responsible for security matters. In 2004 she became National Secretary of the PS in charge of security, where she defended the policy of preventative sanctions.

On July 2, 2013, the President of the Republic announced that he was terminating his duties as Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy following an interview in which she described as “bad ”The 2014 budget of his ministry and admitted“ [his] disappointment with the government ”.

On July 4, 2013, at a press conference, she said: I did not make a mistake or a mistake. The government, she adds, marks a turning point in terms of the desire to complete the ecological transition. It is the turning point of rigor which does not say its name and which prepares the march to power for the extreme right in our country. […] Certain economic forces […] did not accept the level of ambition set for the energy transition. […] Is it normal that the CEO of Vallourec, Philippe Crouzet, announced my upcoming fall weeks ago in the United States .

In 2012, she was re-elected in the first round with 53.18% of the votes cast in the 2nd constituency of Deux-Sèvres in the legislative elections of 2012, modified following the redistribution of the French legislative constituencies in 2010.

In 16 May 2012, she was appointed Minister Delegate for Justice. During the legislative elections, she was re-elected as a deputy in the first round. Without sufficiently precise attributions within the Ayrault I government, and after a month of difficult relations with her supervising minister, she obtained the full-service portfolio of Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy on June 21, 2012 in the Ayrault government composed after the legislative elections.

Her thoughts on security matters were taken into account by Ségolène Royal, the PS's candidate in the French Presidential Election of 2007, who incorporated them into her "just order".

In the parliamentary elections of 2007, Batho was the PS's candidate in the 2nd constituency of Deux-Sèvres, which Ségolène Royal had represented before running in the presidential election of that year. In the PS internal nomination contest, she received 54.75% of the vote as against 45.25% for Éric Gauthier, Royal's former substitute.

Batho joined the anti-racist movement SOS Racisme and when its leadership was renewed in September 1992 Fodé Sylla, aged 29, became president and Batho, a representative of the "second generation SOS" in the words of Le Monde, was elected vice-president.

Batho began her militant activity in the high-school students' union FIDL (Fédération indépendante et démocratique lycéenne) while attending the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. She was elected president of the union in 1990 and became well known for her activism on behalf of students' rights and for the means to study. Following nearly two months of strikes the movement obtained from Lionel Jospin, the Minister for Education, a pledge to spend 4.5 million francs on renovating high schools and to protect certain student rights. In 1992 she left high school, and thus the FIDL, to study history.

Delphine Batho (born 23 March 1973 in Paris) is a French politician, member of the National Assembly and former Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy.