Gérard Bapt (born 4 February 1946 in

Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; Franco-Provençal: ''Sant-Etiève''), also written St. Etienne, is a city and the prefecture of the Loire département, in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regi ...

) is a French politician. He was the deputy for Haute-Garonne's 2nd constituency in the

National Assembly of France The National Assembly (, ) is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral French Parliament under the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (France), Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known ...

. He was a member of the

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(''Parti Socialiste'') and worked in association with the SRC parliamentary group. Bapt is a medical doctor and heart specialist. He was first elected in 1978 (to the first constituency) and kept his seat until 1993; he was then re-elected in 1997 and held his seat until 2017. In 2014 Bapt refused an amendment requiring employers to subsidize cycle commuting to work arguing that this would negatively impact the national social security budget; however, according to cycling activist Nicolas Mercat of the Cabinet Inddigo thinktank, French cyclists cover some 4.4 billion kilometers each year, an activity that reduces social security health care costs by 5.6 billion euros annually.

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1946 births Living people Politicians from Saint-Étienne Socialist Party (France) politicians Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic {{France-politician-Socialist-stub