Jean-François Jalkh

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Jean-François Jalkh (born May 23, 1957 in Tournan-en-Brie , Département Seine-et-Marne ) is a French politician of the Front National (FN) or Rassemblement National (RN). From 2012 to 2018 he was deputy chairman of the Front National, briefly chairing it in April 2017. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014 .

Life

Jalkh's family is from Lebanon . He joined the Front national de la jeunesse , youth organization of the right-wing extremist Front National (FN), in 1974 . From 1976 to 1980 he studied law at the University of Paris II . From 1984 until his election to the European Parliament in 2014, he worked as a journalist for National-Hebdo , the weekly newspaper of the FN.

From 1986 to 1988 Jalkh was a member of the National Assembly . From 1989 to 1995 he was a member of the city council of Melun , from 1995 to 2001 a member of the city council of Meaux , from 2001 to 2008 again in Melun. From 1992 to 2010 he was a member of the Regional Council of the Île-de-France Region and from 2010 to 2015 the Regional Council of Lorraine . From May 2010 to January 2011 he was General Secretary of the FN. In the 2012 parliamentary elections , he ran in the 2nd constituency of the Vosges department and received 17.4% of the vote. In July 2012, Jalkh was elected deputy party leader of the Front National.

In the 2014 European elections he was elected to the European Parliament as a representative of the constituency of Eastern France . There he was initially non-attached, from 2015 a member of the Europe of Nations and Freedom Group (ENF). In the legislative period until 2019, he was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a delegate for relations with South Africa, and from 2017 he was also a member of the Budgetary Control Committee . In 2014, Jalkh was a founding member of the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom ( Mouvement pour une Europe des nations et des libertés , MENL), a European political party of right-wing extremists and right-wing populists. From 2016 to 2017 he was chairman of the MENL.

Jalkh was acting chairman of the party from April 25 to 28, 2017, temporarily representing Marine Le Pen during her presidential candidacy. After only three days in office, he was forced to resign because of negationist comments on the 2000 Holocaust .

In the 2019 European elections , Jalkh was confirmed as a member of the European Union. Since then he has been a member of the Identity and Democracy Group , a member of the Committee on Budgetary Control and a delegate for relations with the People's Republic of China. He is also the treasurer of the Identity and Democracy Party , successor to the MENL.

Works

  • together with Jean-Pierre Stirbois, Dossier immigration , Editions National-Hebdo, 1985
  • together with Jean-Yves Le Gallou, Être Français cela se mérite , Paris, Albatros, 1987

Web links

Commons : Jean-François Jalkh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on Jean-François Jalkh in the Members' database of the European Parliament
  2. ↑ Jean-François Jalkh . Front National. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Un Français d'origine libanaise, Jean-François Jalkh, assure la présidence par intérim du FN. In: L'Orient - Le Jour , April 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b CV Jean-François JALKH , European Parliament.
  5. ^ FN: Jean-François Jalkh, le président fantôme qui remplace Marine Le Pen . In: leparisien.fr . April 25, 2017 ( leparisien.fr [accessed April 25, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Le Pen temporarily suspends party chairmanship. April 25, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Le Figaro: Propos négationnistes: Jean-François Jalkh remplacé par Steeve Briois à la tête du FN , April 28, 2017, accessed on April 28, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Jalkh, Jean-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Tournan-en-Brie , France