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On the regional level, Touraine has been general councillor for Indre-et-Loire since the 2001 elections.[3] She served as Vice-President of the General Council of Indre-et-Loire from 2008 to 2011, and as its President from 2011 to 2012, when she resigned.[3] She has served as General councillor of Indre-et-Loire since 1998, having been re-elected in 2004 and in 2011.[3]
In October 2012, Touraine announced that trial centres could open in 2012 in France for drug addicts to safely inject their own drugs. This measure met with criticism coming from both the opposition and members of the majority. She entered into negotiations with doctors and health insurance professional organisations to limit the prices of medical assistance.[12]
During her time in office, Touraine oversaw a 2013 pension reform which gradually extended the mandatory pay-in period from 41.5 years to 43 by 2035 and required workers, retirees and employers to fill in an annual deficit set otherwise to reach 20 billion euros ($26 billion) in 2020.[13][14] She also worked on implementing a 2015 reform aimed at making it easier for low-earners to get access to a doctor.[15]
By the end of her term, Touraine was widely expected to join her party’s presidential primaries in 2017; she eventually decided not to run for president.[19] When Prime Minister Valls declared that he would seek the Socialist Party’s nomination and quit the government to focus on campaigning, Touraine was seen by news media as possible choice to replace him and lead what would effectively become a caretaker government; instead, the post went to Bernard Cazeneuve.[20] In the ensuing cabinet reshuffle to form the Cazeneuve government, she lost the responsibility for women’s rights to newly appointed minister Laurence Rossignol.
Life after politics
In 2019, Touraine was elected chair of the Executive Board of Unitaid.[21]
Other activities
In 2009, Touraine belonged to the "Future of Health Club" (Club Avenir de la santé),[22] a lobby group funded by GlaxoSmithKline, the world's No. 7 of pharmaceutical products, producing amongst other things, nicotine patches.
Political positions
In 2016, Touraine was one of two ministers who came out in open disagreement with the government’s stance on a ban of burkinis. She argued that "to pretend that swimming veiled or bathing on a beach dressed is in itself threatening to public order and the values of the Republic is to forget that those (secular) values are meant to allow each person to safeguard their identity."[23]
Touraine is married to diplomat Michel Reveyrand de Menthon, who is currently French ambassador to Chad.[3] She is a mother of three.[3][8] When President Hollande published a list of bank deposits and property held by all 38 ministers for first time 2012,[26] Touraine declared personal assets worth 1.4 million euros, mainly property.[27]
In September 2013, Touraine's elder son was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for extortion and sequestration.[28]
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