Jean-François Caron (born 21 May 1957 in

Loos-en-Gohelle Loos-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography A former coal mining town, three miles northwest of the centre of Lens, at the junction of the D943 and the A21 autoroute. Its ne ...

Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...

) is a French politician and a member of

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. He is Mayor of

since 2001, re-elected in 2008 with 82.09% of the vote by the first round. He was originally a member of the left-wing of

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, close to

Noël Mamère Noël Mamère (born 25 December 1948 in Libourne, Gironde) is a French journalist and politician. He was the mayor of Bègles in Gironde as well as deputy to the French National Assembly for that constituency. He was for several years a member o ...

and finally joined the

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in 1997. He was elected regional councillor in

Nord-Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais (); pcd, Nord-Pas-Calés); is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Hauts-de-France. It consisted of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Nord-Pas-de-Cala ...

in 1992 and was the Greens' top candidate in the region in the 2004 regional election winning 6.28% of the vote. He is also vice president of the Agglomeration community of Lens - Liévin in charge of environmental affairs. In 2009, he was selected to be

' candidate in

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