David Habib

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David Habib (born March 16, 1961) is French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since the 2002 elections, representing the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department.^[1]

Early life and education[]

Habib comes from a family of Tunisian Jews. His father arrived in Pau for professional reasons when Habib was six months old.^[2]

Political career[]

In the 1995 municipal elections, Habib was became mayor of Mourenx.^[3]

In the National Assembly, Habib is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. He has been serving on the Finance Committee since 2014. He has also been a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs (2002-2007, 2017-2019) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (2017-2019).^[4]

In addition to his committee assignments, Habib is part of the French-Norwegian Parliamentary Friendship Group, the French-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).^[5]

In January 2015, Habib succeeded Christophe Sirugue as Second Vice-President of the National Assembly.

In the Socialist Party's primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential election, Habib endorsed Manuel Valls as the party's candidate for the office of President of France and worked on his campaign team.^[6]

Political positions[]

In 2011, Habib was one of only eleven members of the Socialist Party's parliamentary group who publicly called on President Nicolas Sarkozy not to recognise a Palestinian State.^[7]

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