Jean-Pierre Abelin (born 3 September 1950 in

Poitiers Poitiers (, , , ; Poitevin: ''Poetàe'') is a city on the River Clain in west-central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and the historical centre of Poitou. In 2017 it had a population of 88,291. Its agglome ...

, Vienne) is a French

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Pierre Abelin Pierre Abelin (May 16, 1909 – May 23, 1977) was a French Christian Democratic politician, parliamentarian and government minister. Abelin took part in the founding of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP). An adherent of the notion of build ...

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French National Assembly

He was a member of the

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from 1978 to 1981, then 1986 to 1988, and from 1993 to 2012, for various constituencies of Vienne, most recently the 4th constituency. He was a member of the

New Centre The Centrists (french: Les Centristes, LC), formerly known as New Centre (''Nouveau Centre'', NC) and European Social Liberal Party (''Parti Social Libéral Européen'', PSLE), is a centre-right political party in France formed by the members of ...

. He was a member of the Economic, Environmental and Regional Planning Committee.

European Parliament

Abelin also was a

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, between 1984 and 1989, in the

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