France Jamet (born 1961) is a French politician and a member of

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. She has been serving as a

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(MEP) since 2017. She is an FN regional councillor in the

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region, elected in 2004 on a list led by her father, Alain Jamet. In 2009 she was selected to be National Front's candidate in the

region for the 2010 regional elections.FN list of candidates
She unsuccessfully contested

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at the

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and

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. Jamet is the niece of French journalist

Dominique Jamet Dominique Jamet (né Benjamin Jamet; born 16 February 1936, in Poitiers) is a French journalist, writer, and politician, best known for serving as the editor-in-chief of ''Le Quotidien de Paris'' from 1979 to 1987, serving as the president of Bib ...

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