François Alfonsi

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François Alfonsi
MEP
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Member of the European Parliament
for South-East France
Incumbent
Assumed office
7 June 2009
Personal details
Born (1953-09-14) 14 September 1953 (age 59)
Ajaccio, Corsica
Nationality French
Political party Party of the Corsican Nation

François Alfonsi (born 1953 in Ajaccio, Corse) is a French politician, Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the South-East France constituency and Mayor of Osani.[1]

Alfonsi has been a Corsican nationalist since the 1970s, and was elected in 1987 to the Corsican Assembly. He has been Mayor of Osani since 2002. He is currently a member of the Party of the Corsican Nation (PNC).

In the 2009 European elections, he was the second candidate on the Europe Écologie list in the South-East region, and was elected to the European Parliament. He is the second Corsican nationalist after Max Simeoni (Green, 1989–1994) to be elected to the European Parliament.

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This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

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