David Assouline
{{Short description|French politician (born 1959)}}
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| office = Member of the French Senate for Paris
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| party = Socialist Party
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David Assouline ({{IPA|fr|david asulin}}; 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.
Political career
In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, Assouline endorsed Martine Aubry as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.[https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/primaire-ps-39-senateurs-ps-apportent-leur-soutien-a-aubry-13-10-2011-1384191_20.php Primaire PS: 39 sénateurs PS apportent leur soutien à Aubry] Le Point, 13 October 2011.
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),[http://www.dividendenumerique.fr/pdf/Rapport_de_la_CDN_-_23_Juillet_2008_-final.pdf Rapport de la Commission du dividende numérique au Premier Ministre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081111143250/http://www.dividendenumerique.fr/pdf/Rapport_de_la_CDN_-_23_Juillet_2008_-final.pdf |date=2008-11-11 }}, July 2008, 82 pages (in French) 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.
- Un siècle d’immigration, Au Nom de la Mémoire (ANM)
- 1996, Vol. 1: Un siècle d'immigrations en France (1851–1918), 144 pp., {{ISBN|978-2-84146-320-6}}
- 1996, Vol. 2: Un siècle d'immigrations en France (1919–1945), 144 pp., {{ISBN|978-2-910780-01-2}}
- 1997, Vol. 3: Un siècle d'immigrations en France (de 1945 à nos jours), 144 pp., {{ISBN|978-2-84146-472-2}}
- 2001: A propos d’octobre 1961, Au Nom de la Mémoire
Notes
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External links
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- [http://david-assouline.over-blog.net/ Blog]
- [http://www.senat.fr/senfic/assouline_david04059m.html David Assouline (Sénat)]
- [http://www.senat.fr/senfic/assouline_david04059m.html Page on the Senate website]
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