Charles de Gaulle (politician, 1948)

Charles de Gaulle (born September 25, 1948 in Dijon ) is a French lawyer and politician ( UDF , MPF , FN ). He was a member of the European Parliament from 1993 to 2004 .

Life

He is a grandson of the former President and General Charles de Gaulle . His parents are the admiral and former senator of the RPR Philippe de Gaulle and Henriette de Montalemberts. His younger brother Jean de Gaulle is also a politician.

Initially active in the Paris Bar Association from 1971, he began to get involved in French politics in the 1980s, unlike his father and brother, however, not with the Gaullist RPR, but with the Union pour la démocratie française (UDF). Between 1986 and 1992 he was a member of the regional council in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region . From 1989 to 1990 he was first deputy mayor of the town of Rueil-Malmaison in the Hauts-de-Seine department ( Île-de-France ). He was also a candidate for Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's UDF / RPR list for the European elections in 1989 . With the resignation of a member of parliament, he moved to the European Parliament in 1993 . There he first joined the Liberal and Democratic Group . De Gaulle was a member of the Committee on Energy, Research and Technology from 1993 to 1999, and from 1993 to 1994 also its vice-chairman and delegate for relations with Japan.

In the European elections in 1994 he was elected to the EU-skeptical Majorité pour l'autre Europe list by Philippe de Villiers , from which the Mouvement pour la France (MPF) later emerged. This party was particularly against the introduction of the euro and against a federal Europe, which, according to their ideas, would be controlled by the Commission . De Gaulle was a member of the Europe of Nations Group during this legislative period .

From 1998 onwards, de Gaulle came closer and closer to the Front National . He voted against the lifting of the immunity of Jean-Marie Le Pen as a member of the European Parliament. In 1999 he ran again at European level, this time on the FN list, and was re-elected. He then sat in the Technical Group of Independent Members , of which he was co-chair from 1999 to 2001. He was also a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs . In the 2001 Paris municipal elections, he was also a candidate for the FN list. In 2004 he was not re-elected and withdrew from politics.

Web links

• Entry on Charles de Gaulle in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs