Pierre Cohen | |
Office: | Mayor of Toulouse |
Term Start: | 21 March 2008 |
Term End: | 4 April 2014 |
Predecessor: | Jean-Luc Moudenc |
Successor: | Jean-Luc Moudenc |
Office2: | Member of the National Assembly for Haute-Garonne's 3rd constituency |
Term Start2: | 12 June 1997 |
Term End2: | 19 June 2012 |
Predecessor2: | Serge Didier |
Successor2: | Jean-Luc Moudenc |
Birth Date: | 20 March 1950 |
Birth Place: | Bizerte, Tunisia |
Party: | Socialist Party Génération.s |
Alma Mater: | Paul Sabatier University |
Pierre Cohen (born 20 March 1950) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Haute-Garonne department,[1] and is a member of the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left group.
Cohen was born in Bizerte, a town in North Tunisia to a Tunisian Jewish father and French Catholic mother.[2]
In the 2008 French municipal elections, Cohen became mayor of Toulouse when he narrowly defeated UMP incumbent Jean-Luc Moudenc. However, at the next elections in 2014, Moudenc defeated Cohen in a rematch to re-take the job.
Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2017 primaries, Cohen endorsed Benoît Hamon as the party's candidate for the presidential election later that year.[3]