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Jean-Paul Besset (born 1946 inChamalières,Puy-de-Dôme) is a French politician[1] and environmentalist.
An original member of theRevolutionary Communist League (LCR), he stayed in the LCR for eleven years, from its launch in 1974 until 1985.
As a founder of theEurope Écologie coalition in 2008, he was selected to lead theEurope Écologie list in theMassif Central constituency ahead of the2009 European elections.During the2014 European elections, his list receives 6,88% of the vote, down from the 13,58% of 2009, his party losing its only seat in theMassif Central constituency and his party going nationally from 12 in 2009 to 6 European seats after the elections.[2] He leaves the party in January 2016 criticising «internal divisions and personal individualism».[3]
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