François Alfonsi

François Alfonsi
Member of the European Parliament
for South-East France
In office
7 June 2009  1 July 2014
Personal details
Born (1953-09-14) 14 September 1953
Ajaccio, Corsica
Nationality French
Political party Party of the Corsican Nation

François Alfonsi (born 1953 in Ajaccio, Corsica) is a French politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2014 for the South-East France constituency and is 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 was the second Corsican nationalist after Max Simeoni (Green, 1989–1994) to be elected to the European Parliament.

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