Office: | Member of the National Assembly for Charente-Maritime's 2nd constituency |
Party: | Independent |
Termstart: | 8 July 2024 |
Predecessor: | Anne-Laure Babault |
Office1: | Member of the European Parliament |
Constituency1: | France |
Term Start1: | 2 July 2019 |
Term End1: | 15 July 2024 |
Parliament1: | European |
Birth Date: | 7 April 1967 |
Birth Place: | Royan, France |
Nationality: | French |
Residence: | Sablonceaux |
Profession: | Farmer · Agronomist · Politician |
Benoît Biteau (pronounced as /fr/; born 7 April 1967) is a French farmer, agronomist and politician who was elected the deputy for the 2nd constituency of Charente-Maritime in the National Assembly in the 2024 legislative election. He ran under the The Ecologists (LÉ) banner, part of the New Popular Front (NFP) alliance.[1] [2]
Biteau was previously elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2019 at place 11 on the Europe Ecology – The Greens list.[3] [4] [5] [6] He failed to win reelection in 2024 and chose to run for the National Assembly a month later.
He also held a seat in the Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes (2010–2015) and its successor, the Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (2016–2021), as well as one of the council's vice-presidencies during his first five-year term.