Gérard Onesta is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 politician and Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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 for the South West of France.

He is a member of the French Green Party, part of the European Greens. On 20 July 2004 he was re-elected a Member of the European Parliament

European Parliament

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, and he was elected four times one of its Vice-Presidents

President of the European Parliament

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. His successor is José Bové

José Bové

Joseph Bové is a French farmer and syndicalist, member of the alter-globalization movement, and spokesman for Via Campesina. He was one of the twelve official candidates in the 2007 French presidential election...

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In March 2010 regional election, he is the leader of The Greens/Europe Ecologie in Midi-Pyrénées.

Onesta defines himself as a european federalist, with strong proclivities for regionalism.

Trivia

His cousin Claude Onesta

Claude Onesta

Claude Onesta is a former French handball player and current head coach for the French national handball team.He is, with Vladimir Maksimov, the only coach to have obtained the three major titles in handball: European champion , world champion ) and Olympic champion...

 is the coach of the 3 fold champion France national handball team

France national handball team

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External links

• Gérard Onesta official website
• European Parliament: Gérard Onesta