Jean-Claude Martinez is a French politician

Politics of France

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 and Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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 for the south-west of France

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. He was a member of the Front National, and was among the Non-Inscrits until the 2007 formation of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty

Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty

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 Group in the European Parliament

European Parliament

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. He sits on its Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Martinez is also a substitute for the Committee on Budgets, a member of the delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Central America

Central America

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.

Martinez was part of the "TSM" current inside the FN (Tout sauf Mégret

Bruno Mégret

Bruno Mégret is a French Far-right politician. He is the leader of the Mouvement National Républicain political party, but retired in 2008 from political action.-Youth and studies:...

, Anybody But Mégret) during the 1990s crisis, along with Samuel Maréchal, Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen is a French politician, a lawyer by profession and the president of the Front National since 16 January 2011...

, Roger Holeindre

Roger Holeindre

Roger Holeindre is a French politician, vice-president of the National Front far-right party. He is a representant of the “national-conservative” tendency, opposed to the “nationalist revolutionaries”...

, the Catholic current represented by Bernard Antony and Bruno Gollnisch

Bruno Gollnisch

Bruno Gollnisch is a French academic and politician, a member of the National Front far-right party, and a member of the European Parliament. He was chairman of the European Parliamentary group 'Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty' in 2007, which was dissolved in November 2007 following the...

, and Martine Lehideux.

Career

• Postgraduate teaching qualification in law
  Law
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   (1975)
• Course director, ENA (National School of Administration), Morocco (1976–1980)
• Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Paris II (since 1983)
• Deputy Chairman of the National Front
• Member of a regional council (1992–2004)
• Former member of Montpellier Municipal Council
• Member of the National Assembly
  French National Assembly
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   (1986–1988)
• Member of the European Parliament
  European Parliament
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   (since 1989)

External links

• European Parliament biography
• Declaration of financial interests (in French
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