Biography
Attorney at law
Former Minister
Honorary Member of Parliament
Member for Isère
from 1997 to 2011
Vice-Chairman of the French Delegation to the Council of Europe
from 2020 to 2023
Attorney at law
Former Minister
Honorary Member of Parliament
Member for Isère
from 1997 to 2011
Vice-Chairman of the French Delegation to the Council of Europe
from 2020 to 2023
Chairman, Isère Department
from 2001 to 2015
National Secretary of the Socialist Group in charge of Institutions and Justice
from 2003 to 2008
Chairman of the parliamentary inquiry commission into the Outreau affair in 2006
Member of the Valls and Cazeneuve governments
(local authorities and territorial reform, cooperation, development and francophony, relations with Parliament)
Lawyer by profession, André Vallini was parliamentary assistant to Gisèle Halimi when she was elected Member of Parliament for Isère in 1981.<br>
Elected Mayor of Tullins-Fures, his home town, from 1986 to 2001, André Vallini was also a regional councillor for Rhône-Alpes from 1986 to 1992.
In 1992, André Vallini became a departmental councillor for Isère, a position he still holds following his re-election in 2021. He also presided over the Isère department from 2001 to 2015.
While a member of parliament for Isère, André Vallini was a member of the Law Commission, where he was rapporteur for several laws on justice. He was also chairman of the parliamentary commission on the Outreau affair, and speaker for the Socialist group on revisions to the Constitution at the parliamentary congress in Versailles in 2008.
In September 2011, André Vallini was elected Senator for Isère for the first time. In his second term as Senator, in September 2017, André Vallini was a member of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces Committee. Within this commission, André Vallini was rapporteur each year for the budget for cultural diplomacy and influence. He was also responsible for a report on the Europe of Defense and a report on the abolition of the diplomatic corps.
In 2014, André Vallini joined the Government. He successively held three ministerial posts: Secretary of State in charge of Territorial Reform, then Secretary of State for Cooperation, Development and Francophony, and finally Secretary of State, in charge of Relations with Parliament.
Au Conseil de l'Europe, André Vallini a siégé à la Commission des questions juridiques et des droits de l'Homme et à la Commission pour l'élection des juges de la Cour européenne des droits de l'Homme. Durant son mandat de sénateur, André Vallini a été vice-président de la section française de l'Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF).
At the Council of Europe, André Vallini was a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights. During his term of office as a senator, André Vallini was vice-president of the French section of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF).