Charles de Gaulle (born 1948)

Charles Roger René Jacques de Gaulle (French: [ʃaʁl(ə) də ɡol] ⓘ; born 25 September 1948) is a French retired politician. He is the eldest child of Admiral Philippe de Gaulle and a grandson of General and statesman Charles de Gaulle. He served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1993 to 2004,[1] as a successive member of the Union for French Democracy (until 1994), Movement for France (until 1999) and National Front (until 2004).

Career

Born in Dijon, De Gaulle became a lawyer in Paris in 1971. He was a regional councillor of Nord-Pas-de-Calais from 1986 to 1992, as a member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) right-of-centre party. From 1989 to 1990, he was the mayor's first deputy in Rueil-Malmaison in the Hauts-de-Seine department. He was present on Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's electoral list at the 1989 European election, and following resignations from UDF members who preceded him, he took his seat in Strasbourg in 1993.

At the 1994 European election, he was elected on Philippe de Villiers's Movement for France (MPF) list. Charles de Gaulle became close to Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front (FN) in 1998. He refused to vote the suspension of Le Pen's parliamentary immunity in Strasbourg. He joined the FN in 1999,[2] and then ran in the 1999 European election and 2001 Paris municipal election on National Front lists. He did not seek a fourth term at the European Parliament in 2004.

References

  1. ^ "Charles de GAULLE". European Parliament. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  2. ^ "De Gaulle Grandson's Politics Upset Family". The New York Times. 20 May 1999. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
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