Patricia Adam is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Finistère

Finistère

Finistère is a département of France, in the extreme west of Brittany.-History:The name Finistère derives from the Latin Finis Terræ, meaning end of the earth, and may be compared with Land's End on the opposite side of the English Channel...

 department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche group.

Biography

Patricia Adam began her political career in 1989 as part of the team of Pierre Maille

Pierre Maille

Pierre Maille is a French politician.Maille was Mayor of Brest from 1982 to 1983, succeeding Francis Le Blé, who died in office in 1982, and from 1989 to 2001. He belongs to the French Socialist Party, and since 1998 has led the general council of the department of Finistère.-References:...

, who became the mayor of Brest

Brest, France

Brest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...

 after six years of control by the right. She became deputy mayor and councillor of Urban Community of Brest

Urban Community of Brest

The Urban Community of Brest is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Brest and some of its suburbs.-Member communes:* Bohars* Brest* Gouesnou* Guilers* Guipavas* Plougastel-Daoulas* Plouzané* Le Relecq-Kerhuon...

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In 1998, she was elected General Counsel of the Canton of Brest-Saint-Marc when the General Council of Finistère swung to the left for the first time. Again, alongside Pierre Maille, President of the General Council, she became elected Vice-President of this Assembly.

She was first elected MP on 16 June 2002, the 12th Legislature (2002-2007)

Deputies of the 12th French National Assembly

List in alphabetical order of the deputies of the 12th French National Assembly .-A:* Mr. Jean-Pierre Abelin, UDF, Vienne* Mr. Jean-Claude Abrioux, UMP, Seine-Saint-Denis* Mr. Bernard Accoyer, UMP, Haute-Savoie* Ms. Patricia Adam, socialist, Finistère...

, in the 2nd constituency of Finistère

Finistere's 2nd Constituency

The 2nd constituency of Finistère is a French legislative constituency in the Finistère département.-Deputies:-2007: -Sources:* Official results of French elections from 1998:...

. She then stood down from municipal office to devote herself to this new national mandate, and that of Vice-President of the General Council. In the National Assembly

French National Assembly

The French National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The upper house is the Senate ....

, she is within the Socialist Group. She became a member of the Defense Committee of the National Assembly, and was delegate of the National Assembly to women's rights and equality of opportunity between men and women.

In 2004 she was re-elected to the General Council of Finistère and retained her post as its vice-president. In September 2006, Patricia Adam officially endorsed Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn , often referred to in the media, and by himself, as DSK, is a French economist, lawyer, politician, and member of the French Socialist Party...

 to be the Socialist Party

Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

 candidate for the 2007 presidential elections

French presidential election, 2007

The 2007 French presidential election, the ninth of the Fifth French Republic was held to elect the successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France for a five-year term.The winner, decided on 5 and 6 May 2007, was Nicolas Sarkozy...

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She was re-elected member on 17 June 2007 for the thirteenth legislature (2007-2012)

Deputies of the 13th French National Assembly

List in alphabetical order of the deputies of the 13th French National Assembly .See also:*by constituency-A:-B:-C:-D:-E:-F:-G:-H:-I:-J:-K:-L:-M:-N:-O:-P:-Q:-R:-S:-T:-U:-V:-W:-Y:...

 defeating Jean-Yves Le Borgne (UMP) in the second round, with 55.51% of the vote. She is again a member of the defense committee.

In May 2008, she supported the candidacy of Bertrand Delanoë

Bertrand Delanoë

Bertrand Delanoë is a French politician, and has been the mayor of Paris since 2001. He is member of the Socialist Party . Delanoë was born in Tunis, Tunisia to a French-Tunisian father and a French mother...

to the post of First secretary of the Socialist Party.