Jean-Luc Bennahmias | |
Birth Date: | 1954 12, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Paris, France |
Nationality: | French |
Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
Term Start: | 2004 |
Term End: | 2014 |
Constituency: | South East France |
Office2: | Member of the Regional council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
President2: | Michel Vauzelle |
Term Start2: | 2004 |
Term End2: | 2010 |
Party: | Democratic Front |
Jean-Luc Bennahmias (born 2 December 1954) is a French politician.
Bennahmias was National secretary of the Green Party (1997–2001), Regional councillor (1992–1996) and Chairman of the Green Group on the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Council (2004–2010), Member of the European Parliament (2004–2014). He joined in 2007 the Democratic Movement, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and was also a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education, a substitute for the Committee on Petitions, a member of the delegation for relations with South Africa, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Canada.
Bennahmias was the candidate of the Democratic Movement for the municipal elections in Marseille in March 2008. He left the centrist party to create his own centre-left party in 2014.
He is of Sephardi Jew descent.[1]