Joseph 'Jup' Weber (15 June 1950 – 8 October 2021) was a
Luxembourg
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ish politician.
Weber was instrumental in the foundation of the original
Greens in 1983, and joined the
Green List Ecological Initiative when the party split in two in 1985. After the two-halves reunited, Weber was one of Luxembourg's six
Members
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of the
European Parliament
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(1994–1999). He left the Greens in 1995, defecting in the European Parliament to the
European Radical Alliance. In 1999, his new party, the
Green and Liberal Alliance
The Green and Liberal Alliance () was a green political party in Luxembourg. It was led by Jup Weber, who was instrumental in founding the Greens and had been one of Luxembourg's six Members of the European Parliament.
It contested the 1999 el ...
, ran against the Greens in both the
legislative elections and
European elections. The party was beaten into sixth place in all
legislative circonscriptions and in the European election. After this failure to break through, the party was disbanded.
References
European Parliament profile
1950 births
2021 deaths
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg)
The Greens (Luxembourg) politicians
Luxembourgian politicians
Politicians from Luxembourg City
Alumni of the Athénée de Luxembourg
The Greens (Luxembourg) MEPs
MEPs for Luxembourg 1994–1999
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