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Anne Hidalgo (born on 19 June 1959 in San Fernando, near Cadiz, in Andalusia, Spain) is a French politician of Spanish descent, member of the French Socialist Party since 1994. Former national secretary for culture and media, after having been responsible for providing training, she is currently the first deputy mayor of Paris, under Bertrand Delanoë (since March 2001).[1] She was elected in 2001 for the XVe arrondissement and ran in the French municipal elections, 2008.
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Her parental grandfather was a Spanish Socialist which became a refugee in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War along with his wife and his four children (one of them Hidalgo's father). However, her grandparents returned to Spain some time later. Her grandmother died in the return trip and his grandfather was sentenced to death penalty, although the sentence was eventually commuted for a life sentence. Thus, Hidalgo's father was raised by his maternal grandparents. In the late 1950s he got married and had two daughters, Ana (Anne) and María (Marie). However, due to the difficult economic landscape of Spain in these years, Hidalgo's parents migrated, this time as economic immigrants, to France.[2] They settled in Lyon in 1961, with their two daughters.
She grew up in Vaise, a quarter of Lyon, and spoke in Spanish language with her parents and in French language with her sister. Her parents are now back in Spain[2] while her older sister, Marie, manages a company in Los Angeles, California.
Hidalgo has a Degree in Social Work and a DEA of social and trade union. She is divorced and remarried, and the mother of three children.
In 1982, she was admitted to the national fifth contest of the Inspection du travail. In 1984, she won her first post in the Inspection du travail and moved in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
Anne Hidalgo worked in three cabinets under the Jospin Government :
In March 2001, at the municipal elections, she led the list of the French Socialist Party in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, which won 26.5% of votes in the first round then was at the second round behind the list gathered around Édouard Balladur and Mayor René Galy-Dejean. She joined the Conseil de Paris and became the first deputy mayor of Paris.
In June 2002, she was a candidate in the parliamentary elections in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, gathering 29.6% of votes in the first round while Édouard Balladur won 54.2% who was elected.
In March 2004, she was elected at the Conseil régional d'Île-de-France on the list of Jean-Paul Huchon.
As part of the internal campaign for the nomination of the Socialist candidate in 2006, she expressed a close connection with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, while remaining close to Lionel Jospin and Bertrand Delanoë. With other female leaders of the Socialist Party, she criticized the "peoplelisation" of politics, which was a reference to the candidacy of Ségolène Royal.
In June 2007, she was a candidate at the legislative elections in the 13th arrondissement of Paris and had in the first round 28.2%, against 36.6% for the UMP candidate Jean-François Lamour, and was beaten on the second round with 56.7% for Lamour.
On 21 December 2005, in the debates on DADVSI, she took a public stand against the amendments of the Socialist Group introducing the "global license" for download. On 26 December, she signed with the Deputy Mayor of Paris responsible for Culture, Christophe Girard, a view in the newspaper Le Monde in which she defended her position on behalf of cultural diversity which would be threatened by the "global license".[3]
On 3 January 2006, she presented with François Adibi and culture section of the Socialist Party a report and new recommendations. "for a fair solution", rejecting both the DRM (Digital Rights Management) that the "global license". She was later disavowed by the leadership of the SP which chose to defend at the National Assembly the global license advocated by Patrick Bloche (Paris), Didier Mathus (Saône-et-Loire) and Christian Paul (Nièvre).
In 2005, Anne Hidalgo took a stand in the debate on cults in France, becoming the president of a committee of vigilance against the cults at the Mairie de Paris. She was especially opposed to the Church of Scientology and New Acropolis and participated in a demonstration in front of the Scientology's premises.[4][5] At that time, a map of the cults in Paris, established by the Mairie de Paris and promoted by Anne Hidalgo, was controversial[6] and Hidalgo had to submit a complaint against X for the diffusion on the Internet of a leaflet signed by a "committee to support Anne Hidalgo" which requested to denounce "non-compliant behaviors".[5] Anne Hidalgo denies any link with the supposed support committee. However, her complaint was dismissed.[7]
On 13 July 2010, Anne Hidalgo was awarded Commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic, i.e. the equivalent of the Legion of Honor in Spain.[8] These badges were handed after a proposal from the Spanish Government and the decision of King Juan Carlos I of Spain, the Spanish ambassador to France who then pointed out that "this award is a recognition of Spanish immigration in France through Anne Hidalgo, who represents for us an exemplary model of successful integration."[9]