Jean-Luc Bennahmias

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Jean-Luc Bennahmias (born December 2, 1954 in Paris ) is a French politician. In 2015 he founded the Front démocrate party , which he has been chairman ever since.

career

After training as a technician, he worked as a journalist from 1974 to 1994 , most recently from 1990 to 1994 at the Verts Europe newspaper . Bennahmias joined the French Green Party ( Les Verts ) in 1985, shortly after it was founded . Bennahmias was Secretary of the Green Party from 1997 onwards, but in June 2001 he left the post to Dominique Voynet . From 1999 to 2004 he was a member of the Conseil économique et social (Economic and Social Council), a constitutional body that advises the government on economic and social issues.

In 2004 he was elected for the Greens to the regional council of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region , where he was the group chairman. In the same year Bennahmias became a member of the European Parliament. In Strasbourg he was a member of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee and the Delegation for relations with South Africa.

After the 2007 presidential election , he moved to the Mouvement démocrate (MoDem). He was named the top candidate in the South-East constituency in the 2009 European elections in France . In 2015 there was a break with the party leadership of MoDem after Bennahmias, contrary to the party line, supported the socialist Patrick Mennucci in the mayoral election in Marseille. Bennahmias then founded his own party, Front démocrate , in Paris on September 27, 2015 , and became its chairman.

On December 7, 2016, Bennahmias declared his candidacy in the primaries of the left-green parties for the selection of the common candidate in the 2017 presidential election .

Political mandates

As a member of the European Parliament, Bennahmias is a member of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee and a deputy on the Committee on Budgets , the Delegation for relations with the United States and the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sondages-election.com: Portrait of Jean-Luc Bennahmias. Retrieved December 12, 2016 (French).
  2. Bennahmias, ex-MoDem, crée son parti aux côtés du PS. Le Parisien, June 16, 2014, accessed December 13, 2016 (French).
  3. Primaire à gauche. Jean-Luc Bennahmias dépose sa candidature. ouest-france.fr, accessed December 12, 2016 (French).
  4. ^ Website of the European Parliament