Claude Bartolone

Claude Bartolone
Bartolone in 2016
President of the National Assembly
In office
26 June 2012 – 20 June 2017
Preceded byBernard Accoyer
Succeeded byFrançois de Rugy
President of the General Council of
Seine-Saint-Denis
In office
20 March 2008 – 4 September 2012
Preceded byHervé Bramy
Succeeded byStéphane Troussel
Delegate Minister for the City
In office
30 March 1998 – 6 May 2002
Prime MinisterLionel Jospin
Preceded byÉric Raoult
Succeeded byJean-Louis Borloo
Member of the French National Assembly
In office
20 June 2012 – 20 June 2017
Preceded byÉlisabeth Guigou
Succeeded bySabine Rubin
ConstituencySeine-Saint-Denis's 9th
In office
2 July 1981 – 19 June 2012
Preceded byJacqueline Chonavel
Succeeded byÉlisabeth Guigou
ConstituencySeine-Saint-Denis's 6th
Personal details
Born (1951-07-29) 29 July 1951 (age 73)
Tunis, Tunisia
Political partySocialist Party (1974-2022)
SpouseVéronique Ragusa
Alma materPierre and Marie Curie University

Claude Bartolone (French pronunciation: [klod baʁtɔlɔn]; born 1951) is a Tunisian-born French politician who served as President of the National Assembly of France from 2012 to 2017.

A member of the Socialist Party from 1974 to 2022, Bartolone was first elected to the National Assembly, representing the Seine-Saint-Denis department, in 1981. He served as Delegate Minister for the City in the government of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin from 1998 to 2002, and he was President of the Seine-Saint-Denis General Council from 2008 to 2012.