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

member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Commu ...

(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 The Union of the Corsican People (UPC) ( Corsican: ''Unione di u Populu Corsu'') was a political party in Corsica, France, founded by Max Simeoni on July 4, 1977, which represented the branch of Corsican nationalism favouring self-government. The U ...

on the list of the

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led by

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. His parliamentary assistant was François Alfonsi, who himself became an MEP in 2009. Like

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, 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,

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, which failed to attain the 5%

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. He later tried unsuccessfully to be a candidate for the

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. 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 w ...

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

Sources

* 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