Dominique Riquet
Dominique Riquet (born September 18, 1946 in Valenciennes , Département Nord ) is a French politician ( PRad , MRSL ). He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009 .
Life and political career
Riquet worked as an assistant and senior physician and doctor of medicine and passed the medical certificate in the field of urological surgery. He was then employed as a hospital doctor and, from 1981 to 2008, head of the urological surgery department at the Center hospitalier in Valenciennes.
Riquet was a member of the liberal Parti radical valoisien (PRad). From 1989 to 1995 he was deputy mayor of Valenciennes, Jean-Louis Borloo , then until 2002 first deputy mayor. He was also a member of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Regional Council from 1992 to 2009 . When Borloo was appointed minister in May 2002, Riquet succeeded him in the post of mayor of Valenciennes. From 2002 to 2011, the PRad was associated with the larger center-right party UMP . During this time, Riquet was also a board member of the UMP in the North Department . From 2008 he was a member of the party executive committee of the Parti radical and vice-president of the Valenciennes Métropole city-surrounding association (until 2014).
In the 2009 European elections , Riquet was elected to the European Parliament via the UMP list in the constituency of north-west France . There he sat for the legislative period until 2014 in the Christian Democratic EPP group , was a member of the budget committee and delegate in the committee for parliamentary cooperation between the EU and Russia. From 2012 to 2014 he was vice chairman of the Committee on Transport and Tourism . From 2012 the PRad was part of the civil center alliance UDI .
Riquet's re-election as a MEP took place in 2014 on the joint list of UDI and MoDem , of which he was the top candidate in the constituency of Northwest France and which received 11.5% of the vote. He then sat in the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), of which he was Deputy Chairman from 2017 to 2019. In the legislative period from 2014 to 2019, Riquet was also Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and delegate for relations with the People's Republic of China. From 2016–17 he was a member of the committee of inquiry into emission measurements in the automotive industry . The Parti radical merged with the Mouvement radical social-libéral (MRSL) at the end of 2017 , to which Riquet has belonged ever since. In the 2019 European elections , he was elected from the Renaissance list, which was dominated by President Emmanuel Macron's La République en Marche party , but which also included candidates from the MRSL. Since then, Riquet has been vice-chairman of the liberal group Renew Europe (successor to ALDE), an ordinary member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and a delegate for relations with Japan.
Riquet was awarded the Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Art and Literature) in 2004.
Web links
- Entry on Dominique Riquet in the Members' database of the European Parliament
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry on Dominique Riquet in the Members' database of the European Parliament
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riquet, Dominique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician (Parti radical valoisien), MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valenciennes |