Marie-Arlette Carlotti | |
Office: | Member of the French Senate for Bouches-du-Rhône |
Term Start: | 1 October 2020 |
Office2: | Minister Delegate to Disabled people |
President2: | François Hollande |
Primeminister2: | Jean-Marc Ayrault |
Successor2: | Ségolène Neuville |
Term Start2: | 16 May 2012 |
Term End2: | 31 March 2014 |
Office3: | Member of the National Assembly for Bouches-du-Rhône's 5th constituency |
Term Start3: | 20 June 2012 |
Term End3: | 20 June 2017 |
Predecessor3: | Renaud Muselier |
Successor3: | Cathy Racon-Bouzon |
Birth Date: | 21 January 1952 |
Birth Place: | Béziers, France |
Nationality: | French |
Party: | Socialist Party |
Alma Mater: | Paul Cézanne University IAE Aix-en-Provence |
Marie-Arlette Carlotti (in French pronounced as /maʁi aʁlɛt kaʁlɔti/; born 21 January 1952 in Béziers) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the French Senate since 2020, representing Bouches-du-Rhône. She previously was a Member of the European Parliament from south-east of France.
Educated at Paul Cézanne University in Marseille, France
As member of the Party of European Socialists, Carlotti served on the European Parliament's Committee on Development.[1] In this capacity, she served as the parliament's rapporteur on the role of migration for development in 2006.[2] She was a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs.[3]
In addition to her committee assignments, Carlotti was a vice-chair of the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the delegations for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union, and to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.[4]
Carlotti was one of six Members of the European Parliament participating in the European Union's observer mission in Togo for the October 2007 Togolese parliamentary election.[5]
On 16 May 2012 Carlotti was appointed by President François Hollande as Junior Minister for the Disabled at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.[6]
Ahead of the 2014 French municipal elections, Carlotti announced her intention to become the Socialist Party's candidate to challenge incumbent Mayor of Marseille Jean-Claude Gaudin; however, she lost her party's primaries against Patrick Mennucci and Samia Ghali.[7]
In the Socialist Party's 2018 convention in Aubervilliers, Carlotti publicly endorsed Stéphane Le Foll as candidate for the party's leadership.[8]
In the Senate, Carlotti serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense.[9]