François-Noël Buffet (born 28 August 1963) is a French politician who has served as a
Senator for
Rhône
The Rhône ( , ; wae, Rotten ; frp, Rôno ; oc, Ròse ) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea. At Ar ...
since
2004. A member of
The Republicans (LR), he has also served as a
metropolitan councillor of
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...
since 2015.
[Dolores Mazzola]
""Entre deux" : Bruno Bernard, François-Noël Buffet et David Kimelfeld, candidats à la Métropole de Lyon"
France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 2020-06-23.
Buffet, who first entered the
municipal council
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of
Oullins in 1990, became Deputy Mayor of Oullins in 1995 under the mayorship of
Michel Terrot. He served as
Mayor
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of
Oullins from 1997 to 2017.
References
External links
Page on the Senate website
1963 births
Living people
People from Oullins
Politicians from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
20th-century French lawyers
Rally for the Republic politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Gaullism, a way forward for France
French senators of the Fifth Republic
Senators of Rhône (department)
French city councillors
Mayors of places in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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