Max Simeoni (28 August 1929 – 9 September 2023) was a French Corsican physician and politician. He was a

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(MEP) from 1989 to 1994.

Life and career

Simeoni was elected to the

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as a candidate of the autonomist Union of the Corsican People on the list of the French Greens led by Antoine Waechter. His parliamentary assistant was François Alfonsi, who himself became an MEP in 2009. Like Djida Tazdaït, the other non-Green MEP elected on the list, he refused to abide by the Greens ''tourniquet'' rule by which every elected official had to resign at mid-term to prevent the political professionalization. At the next European elections in 1994 he led an autonomist list, Régions et peuples solidaires, which failed to attain the 5%

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. He later tried unsuccessfully to be a candidate for the 1995 French presidential election. He was the brother of Corsican autonomist leader

Edmond Simeoni Edmond Simeoni (6 August 1934 – 14 December 2018) was a Corsican doctor, politician and nationalist. He was the brother of Max Simeoni, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1989 to 1994 and father of Gilles Simeoni. Simeoni, together ...

. Max Simeoni died on 9 September 2023, at the age of 94.

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* 1929 births 2023 deaths People from Haute-Corse Corsican politicians Corsican nationalists Party of the Corsican Nation politicians MEPs for France 1989–1994 {{France-MEP-stub