David Assouline

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David Assouline
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David Assouline in 2013
Member of the French Senate for Paris
Assumed office
26 September 2004
Personal details
Born (1959-06-16) 16 June 1959 (age 65)
Sefrou, Morocco
Nationality French and Moroccan
Political party Socialist Party

David Assouline (French pronunciation: [davidasulin] ; born 16 June 1959) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the Senate of France since 2004, representing the city of Paris. He is simultaneously a councillor for the 20th arrondissement of Paris.

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Political career

In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Assouline endorsed Martine Aubry as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election. [1]

Other activities

Assouline is a board member of the France 2 television network and a member of the Digital Dividend Commission (Commission du dividende numérique), [2] which recommended reallocation of frequencies made available by the ending of analogue broadcasting. Previously he has served as a member of the French Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and as a member of the Women's Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Délégation aux droits des femmes et à l'égalité des chances entre les hommes et les femmes).

Works (with Mehdi Lallaoui)

Assouline is a historian who has written a 3-volume survey of France's relationship with its immigrants. However, he is best known for his work on the harsh repression of Algerians living in France during the Algerian War.

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