Jean-Luc Mélenchon
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament from France |
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Assumed office 14 July 2009 |
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| Minister of Vocational Education | |
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In office 27 March 2000 – 6 May 2002 |
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| Prime Minister | Lionel Jospin |
| Preceded by | Claude Allègre |
| Succeeded by | Luc Ferry |
| Member of the Senate from Essonne |
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In office 1 October 2004 – 7 January 2010 |
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| Succeeded by | Marie-Agnès Labarre |
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In office 2 October 1986 – 24 September 1995 |
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| Personal details | |
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Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon 19 August 1951 Tangier, Tangier International Zone (now Morocco) |
| Political party |
Unsubmissive France (2016–present) Left Party (2008–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Socialist Party (1977–2008) Internationalist Communist Organisation (before 1977) |
| Alma mater | University of Franche-Comté |
| Website |
Official website European Party website |
Jean-Luc Mélenchon (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃.lyk me.lɑ̃.ʃɔ̃]; born 19 August 1951) is a French politician.
After joining the Socialist Party in 1976, he was successively elected municipal councilor of Massy (1983), general councilor of the Essonne departement (1985), and senator of the same departement (1986, reelected in 1995 and 2004). He also served as Minister delegate of Vocational Education between 2000 and 2002, next to the Ministry of National Education, Jack Lang, in the cohabitation government of Lionel Jospin.
He was part of the left wing of the Socialist Party until the Reims Congress of 2008, at the outcome of which he left that party to found the Left Party with deputy Marc Dolez. He was the president of the party, and then the co-president of it, along with Martine Billard, until August 2014.
As leader of the Left Party, he joined the electoral coalition of the Left Front before the 2009 European elections and was elected member of the European Parliament in the South-West constituency (reelected in 2014). During the protest movement against the pension reform of 2010 his public stature grew thanks to his many public and television appearances. He was also the candidate of that coalition in the 2012 presidential election, at the outcome of which he came in fourth, receiving 11.1% of the votes. He is a candidate to the 2017 presidential election "outside the frame of political parties", and founded the movement "Unsubmissive France" (FI) in February 2016.
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