Jean-Michel Couve (born 3 January 1940) is a French cardiologist and politician who represented the 4th constituency of the

Var Var or VAR may refer to: Places * Var (department), a department of France * Var (river), France * Vār, Iran, village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Var, Iran (disambiguation), other places in Iran * Vár, a village in Obreja commune, Ca ...

department in the

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from

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to 2017. He previously held a seat at-large following the 1986 legislative election, the first to introduce proportional representation in Parliament under the Fifth Republic."M. Jean-Michel Couve"

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(in French). A member of The Republicans (LR), which he joined upon the party's establishment in 2015, Couve had previously been a member of its predecessor parties, the

Rally for the Republic The Rally for the Republic (french: Rassemblement pour la République ; RPR ), was a Gaullist and conservative political party in France. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR), it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 a ...

(RPR) and

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(UMP). A native of

Le Muy Le Muy (; oc, Lo Muei) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 9,288. Le Muy was one of the first places to be liberated in the Allied invasion of ...

, Couve also served in the

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for the canton of Saint-Tropez from 1992 to 2001 and as

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of Saint-Tropez twice, from 1983 to 1989 and again from 1993 until 2008. He did not run for reelection to Parliament in 2017 but remained from 2014 to 2020 a member of the

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of Saint-Tropez, to which he was first elected in 1977.

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