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Daniel Spagnou
French politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Daniel Spagnou (born 22 September 1940 in Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the second constituency of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department[1] as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement from 2002 to 2012.
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Daniel Spagnou worked as a savings bank manager, he is now retired.
He entered politics by becoming mayor of Sisteron on 14 March 1983. He still holds this position, his list having obtained 57% of the votes cast in 2020.
From 15 April 1985 to 18 March 2001 he was a member of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence General Council. He was vice-president from 1988 to 2001.
For ten years, from 23 March 1992 to 1 July 2002, he was also a member of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Council, of which he was vice-president from 1992 to 1998.
On 16 June 2002 he was elected deputy for the 2nd constituency of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence for the 12th legislature (2002–2007). He beat outgoing MP Robert Honde, former PRG mayor of Manosque in the second round, collecting 59.91% of the vote in the second round.
He was re-elected deputy on 17 June 2007, for the 13th legislature (2007–2012), beating, in the second round, Christophe Castaner, the PS mayor of Forcalquier, with 53.97% of the vote. He sat in the UMP group. He belonged to the Committee on Cultural Affairs and was a member of the National Assembly delegation on women's rights and equal opportunities between men and women.
He was a member of the National Assembly's Tibet Study Group.[2]
In January 2011, he announced on his site that he would not be a candidate in the 2012 legislative elections.[3]
At the end of 2017, he joined Agir, the constructive right.
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Titles
- Officer of the Legion of Honour, 14 July 2019.[4]
- Knight of the Legion of Honour, 1999.
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