Birth Date: | 22 April 1949 |
Term Start1: | 12 June 1997 |
Term End1: | 30 September 2011 |
Term Start2: | 1 October 2011 |
Term End2: | 1 October 2017 |
Term Start3: | 28 March 2004 |
Term End3: | 13 December 2015 |
Catherine Génisson (born 22 April 1949) is French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who represented the Pas-de-Calais department in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2011 and later in the French Senate from 2011 to 2017.
The daughter of painter,[1] Génisson was first elected to the French assembly in 1997 and was reelected in 2002 and 2007.[2] She was elected to the French senate on September 25, 2011.[3]
Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2008 convention in Reims, Génisson publicly endorsed Martine Aubry as candidate to succeed François Hollande at the party's leadership.[4] In the party's 2011 primaries, she endorsed Aubry as its candidate for the 2012 presidential election.[5]