Laurent Cathala

Laurent Cathala is the mayor of Créteil since 1977 and is a former member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Val-de-Marne department, and is a member of the Socialist Party.

Biography

A state-certified nurse who trained at Lariboisière Hospital in Paris, Laurent Cathala worked as a senior nurse for the Assistance publique at Henri-Mondor Hospital in Créteil from 1970 to 1977.
Elected representative of Val-de-Marne in 1993, then re-elected until 2017, when he did not stand for re-election due to the application of the law on the non-accumulation of mandates, he is a member of the Socialists and affiliated group.
On January 27, 2016, he became the first president of the T11 Public Territorial Institution, a new intermunicipal structure in the southeast of Val-de-Marne created as part of the Grand Paris project. He was elected by 36 votes to 34 against the favorite, MoDem representative Jean-Jacques Jégou, with 3 blank votes and 1 invalid vote.
He was a member of Arnaud Montebourg's campaign team for the 2017 Socialist presidential primary.