Robert Rochefort (born 19 September 1955 in
Paris
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) is a French economist and politician.
Political career
In 2009, Rochefort joined the
MoDem
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, and was selected to lead the MoDem list in the
South-West constituency ahead of the
2009 European elections. He was the MoDem's only elected
Member of the European Parliament
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
in that region. He has since been serving on the
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) is a committee of the European Parliament.
Work of the committee
The committee is responsible for:
* coordination at Community level of national legislation in the sphere of th ...
; following the
2014 elections, he became one of the committee's vice-chairmen under the leadership of
Vicky Ford
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until January 2017. In addition to his committee assignments, he has been a member of the parliament's delegation for relations with
Iraq
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.
In August 2016, Rochefort was arrested by police after being caught
masturbating
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in a DIY store in
Vélizy-Villacoublay
Vélizy-Villacoublay () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the south-western suburbs of Paris from the center and east of Versailles. Its inhabitants are called Véliziens.
...
(
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the ÃŽle-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.[Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...]
. By September, MoDem chair
François Bayrou urged Rochefort to relinquish all his party duties following his arrest.
[Quentin Ariès (September 3, 2016]
Party leader calls on French MEP to resign
''Politico Europe
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''.
References
1955 births
Living people
Politicians from Paris
Democratic Movement (France) politicians
Democratic Movement (France) MEPs
French economists
MEPs for South-West France 2009–2014
MEPs for South-West France 2014–2019
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