François Loncle (born October 21, 1941) is a French politician. He represented the 4th constituency of the

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from 1997 to 2017 as a member of the

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Biography

Loncle was born October 21, 1941, in

Enghien-les-Bains Enghien-les-Bains () is a Communes of France, commune in the Departements of France, department of Val-d'Oise, France. It is located in the northern suburbs of Paris, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. Enghien-les-Bains is famous as a s ...

(

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). He was a student at the

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and graduated from

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in 1963. He is married and father of three children. He started out as a journalist the ''

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''. In 1964 he served at the

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where he hosted a program of exchange (la Bourse), he reported later of Service economy of news broadcasts «20 heures» and participated in news broadcasts «Panorama». In July 1968 consequently of strike he was discharged with 120 others journalists by order of government

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. At the end of 1969 he was employed by Eugène Descamps as a presse officer of the

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that he located to 1970. In 1971 he founded a study and action radical-socialist group with some members of the Radical Party. This became the

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. He served as National Secretary until 1981. Supported by

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he was elected a deputy to the department of

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. He was re-elected a deputy in 1986 and 1988. Beaten during a historical defeat of the left in 1993, he was re-elected again in 1997 following a dissolution of the

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settled by

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, re-elected again in 2002, 2007 and 2012. In 1992 he was appointed Secretary of State in the Bérégovoy's Government. From 1997 he became a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the National Assembly so he served as chairman between 5 April 2000 and 18 June 2002. Until 2017 he was president of the friendship group

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, vice-president of the friendships groups

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and

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, secretary of the friendship group

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, vice-president of the study group of international vocation of issues related to the economic expansion in

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, member of the study group of the

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question; from 2011 he is a speaker of the working group of Sahel Security, member of the investigation committee about supervision of jihadists communications and of the Mission of information about

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in the National Assembly. He was vice-president of a French delegation of the

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Position statement

In 2010 he supported

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and contested the victory of his rival

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. On 17 March 2016 with 19 others socialist deputies he gave an option for withdrawal of amendment, supported by the government, interdicting the fishing at the depth of more than 800 metres. He favoured

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for the presidential election 2017. He supported Bruno Questel for the legislative election 2017http://www.paris-normandie.fr/region/circo2704--bruno-questel-lrem-en-tete-devant-le-fn-LB9993683 (in French)

Political mandates

Former governmental functions

* 4 Juin 1992 - 26 December 1992: Minister of City Affairs * 26 December 1992 - 29 March 1993: Minister of Planning

Parliamentary mandates

* 21 Juin 1981 - 1 April 1986: Deputy of Eure * 12 Juin 1988 - 3 July 1992: Deputy of Eure (Nomination in Government) * 1 Juin 1997 - 18 Juin 2002: Deputy of Eure * From 2002: Deputy of Eure

Former local mandates

* 14 Juin 1982 - 19 March 1989: Mayor of

Brionne Brionne () is a commune in the Eure department. Brionne is in the region of Normandy of northern France. Geography The commune along with another 69 communes shares part of a 4,747 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called Risle, Guiel ...

(Eure) * 3 October 1988 - 26 May 1989: General councillor of Eure * 22 March 1989 - 18 Juin 1995: Mayor of Brionne (Eure) * 19 Juin 1995 - 18 March 2001: Assistant Mayor of

Louviers Louviers () is a Communes of France, commune in the Eure Departments of France, department in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy in north-western France. Louviers is from Paris and from Rouen. Population History Prehistory In th ...

(Eure) * 2001 - 2008: Municipal councillor of Louviers (Eure) * Community councillor of Agglomeration communities the Seine-Eure

The laureate of Political humor Grand Prix

In 2011 the jury of Political humor Grand Prix awarded to him the diploma of special merit as deputy champion of written questions to government remains unanswered but published in the Official Journal. He was awarded in 2005 by the same jury for saying the former Prime minister Dominique Galouzeau de Villepin: «He has the name of the horse but he has never raced», referring to the fact that the latter never presented to least election.

References

External links

*
Official page at the French National Assembly
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