François Loncle

François Loncle (born October 21, 1941) is a french politician, member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Eure department, and is a member of the Socialist Party (France).

Biography

François Loncle has born October 21, 1941 in Enghien-les-Bains (France). He was a student at the Paris Law Faculty and graduated from Centre Education of Jurnalists in 1963.

He is married and father of three children.

He was begun as a journalist reported at newspaper the Paris Normandie. In 1964 he served at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française. In concsequence of strike he was discharged by order of government Georges Pompidou in July 1968. Then he enters into the presse office of the CFDT.

In 1971 he found a study and action radical-socialist group with some members of the Radical Party. This tendency change into the Radical Party of the Left, so he is National Secretary until 1981.

Supported by Pierre Mendès France he is elected a deputy to the department of Eure a fourth election district on 21 June 1981. After this election he joins the Socialist Party . He was re-eleted a deputy in 1986 and 1988. Beaten during a historical defeat of the left in 1993, he was re-elected again in 1997 following a dissolution of the National Assembly settled by President of France Jacques Chirac, re-elected again in 2002, 2007 and 2012.

External links

• (French) Official page at the French National Assembly