Jean-Pierre Koepp (26 April 1934 in
Holzthum - 3 August 2010 in
Ettelbruck) was a
politician and
restaurateur
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in
Luxembourg. He was a representative of the
Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR), having been one of the ADR's founder-members and one of their first members of the
Chamber of Deputies
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, in which he has sat between 1989 and 2009.
Koepp was elected to the Chamber to represent the
Nord
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constituency at the
1989 legislative election, with the ADR, then a
single-issue pensioners' party called the '
Action Committee 5/6ths Pensions for Everyone', scoring a remarkable electoral upset in securing four seats in the Chamber. He was re-elected
in 1994, when the ADR increased their representation in the Chamber to five seats.
In the
1999 legislative elections, he placed first on the ADR list, with two being elected, and came third amongst all candidates (behind only ministers-to-be
Charles Goerens and
Marie-Josée Jacobs).
In 2004, Koepp came first amongst ADR candidates again, albeit with a greatly reduced vote count. Nonetheless, the ADR still won enough votes for one
deputy
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to be returned, allowing Koepp to be re-elected. He did not run in the
most recent election, leaving the top place on the list to
Jean Colombera Jean Colombera (born 2 February 1954 in Esch-sur-Alzette) is a politician and physician in Luxembourg. He currently sits as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Alternative Democratic Reform Party, representing the Nord constituency.
Born ...
.
He died in 2010, at the age of 76.
Footnotes
External links
Chamber of Deputies official website biography
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg)
Alternative Democratic Reform Party politicians
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg) from Nord
Luxembourgian businesspeople
1934 births
2010 deaths
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Restaurateurs
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