Claude Bartolone

Claude Bartolone (; 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. Early life and education Bartolone was born on 29 July 1951 in Tunis, Tunisia. His mother was from Malta and his father from Sicily; both his parents were working-class. At the age of nine, he moved to Le Pré-Saint-Gervais in France and grew up in a council estate. After he was encouraged by a teacher named Marie-Thérèse Thoullieux not to get a professional degree, Bartolone attended the Lycée Turgot in Paris. He received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.