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François Loncle

François Loncle
Member of the National Assembly
for Eure's 4th constituency
In office
1997–2017
Preceded byBernard Leroy
Succeeded byBruno Questel
Secretary of State for Planning
In office
4 June 1992 – 29 March 1993
PresidentFrançois Mitterrand
Prime MinisterPierre Bérégovoy
Succeeded byJean Arthuis
Personal details
Born (1941-10-21) 21 October 1941 (age 83)
Enghien-les-Bains, France
Political partySocialist Party
Alma materParis Law Faculty
Centre de formation des journalistes

François Loncle (born October 21, 1941) is a French politician. He represented the 4th constituency of the Eure department[1] in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2017 as a member of the Socialist Party.

Biography

Loncle was born October 21, 1941, in Enghien-les-Bains (France). He was a student at the Paris Law Faculty and graduated from Centre de formation des journalistes in 1963.

He is married and father of three children.

He started out as a journalist the Paris Normandie. In 1964 he served at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française 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».[2] In July 1968 consequently of strike he was discharged with 120 others journalists by order of government Georges Pompidou. At the end of 1969 he was employed by Eugène Descamps as a presse officer of the CFDT 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 Radical Party of the Left. He served as National Secretary until 1981.

Supported by Pierre Mendès France he was elected a deputy to the department of Eure a fourth election district on 21 June 1981. After this election he joins the Socialist Party. 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 National Assembly settled by President of France Jacques Chirac, 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 Burkina Faso, vice-president of the friendships groups Serbia, Estonia, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Mauritania, Uganda and Syria, secretary of the friendship group France-Mali, vice-president of the study group of international vocation of issues related to the economic expansion in Taiwan, member of the study group of the Tibet 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 Libya in the National Assembly.

He was vice-president of a French delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.[3]

Position statement

In 2010 he supported Laurent Gbagbo and contested the victory of his rival Alassane Ouattara in Ivory Coast.

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.[4]

He favoured Emmanuel Macron for the presidential election 2017.[5]

He supported Bruno Questel for the legislative election 2017[6][7]

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 (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 (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

  1. ^ "LISTE DÉFINITIVE DES DÉPUTÉS ÉLUS À L'ISSUE DES DEUX TOURS" (in French). National Assembly of France. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
  2. ^ Report by François Loncle «Grape harvests in the Languedok» of 23 September 1966 in news broadcasts «Panorama»
  3. ^ / French delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  4. ^ / Analysis of the polls n° 1258, Third seance from 17 March 2016 (in French)
  5. ^ [1] (in French)
  6. ^ "4e circonscription de l'Eure : Douze candidats à la succession de Loncle « Article « le Journal d'Elbeuf". Archived from the original on 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  7. ^ http://www.paris-normandie.fr/region/circo2704--bruno-questel-lrem-en-tete-devant-le-fn-LB9993683 (in French)
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Loncle