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Didier Motchane (17 September 1931 – 29 October 2017) was a French politician who served as a 
Motchane cofounded the in 1965, and was active in the
member of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.
When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
from 1979 to 1989.
He was born in Paris on 17 September 1931 to mathematician Léon Motchane. Didier Motchane later married actress and film director Dominique Cabrera
Dominique Cabrera (born 21 December 1957) is a French film director. She has taught filmmaking at La Fémis and at Harvard University. Her film '' Nadia et les hippopotames'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film ...
.
Motchane cofounded the in 1965, and was active in the Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...
and the Union of the Left. He is often credited with the fist and rose
The fist and rose, sometimes called the rose in the fist, is an emblem used or formerly used by a number of socialist and social democratic parties around the world.
It depicts a rose, symbolizing the promises of better life under a socialist g ...
design used by socialist political organizations worldwide, which he claimed to have “invented” in his 2010 memoirs, but the initiative is disputed between other party leaders of the time.
He was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1989, representing the Socialist Party. He left the party in 1993 after a disagreement with François Mitterrand, and helped establish the Citizen and Republican Movement.
Motchane died of cancer at the age of 86 on 29 October, 2017.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Motchane, Didier 1931 births 2017 deaths Politicians from Paris MEPs for France 1979–1984 MEPs for France 1984–1989 Socialist Party (France) MEPs Citizen and Republican Movement politicians Deaths from cancer in France French people of Swiss descent French people of Russian-Jewish descent