François Alfonsi (born 14 September 1953) is a French politician. He was a

Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

from

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until

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for the South-East France constituency. He was reelected to that position in May 2019.

Political career

Alfonsi has been a Corsican nationalist since the 1970s, and was elected in 1987 to the

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. He was

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of Osani from 2002 until 2020. He is currently a member of

Femu a Corsica Femu a Corsica (; ) is a Corsican autonomist political party. It was formed for the first time prior to the 2010 French regional elections in the form of a political coalition. The coalition members, Inseme per a Corsica, the Party of the Corsi ...

, after having been a member of the

Party of the Corsican Nation The Party of the Corsican Nation (, PNC) is a Corsican nationalist and autonomist political party on the French island of Corsica. It was founded in Corte in 2002 by members of three nationalist parties, Union of the Corsican People (UPC), ''A ...

(PNC). In the 2009 European elections, Alfonsi was the second candidate on the

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list in the South-East region, and was elected to the

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. He was the second Corsican nationalist after

Max Simeoni Max Simeoni (28 August 1929 – 9 September 2023) was a French Corsican physician and politician. He was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1989 to 1994. Life and career Simeoni was elected to the European Parliament in 1989 as a can ...

(Green, 1989–1994) to be elected to the European Parliament. Since 2021, he has been part of the Parliament's delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Assembly, which provides parliamentary oversight over the implementation of the

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. In addition to his committee assignments, Alfonsi is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages.Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages

References

External links

European Parliament – Your MEPs – François Alfonsi
1953 births Living people Politicians from Ajaccio MEPs for South-East France 2009–2014 MEPs for France 2019–2024 Party of the Corsican Nation MEPs {{France-MEP-stub