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Gaston Franco
Gaston Franco in 2013

Member of the European Parliament
In office 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014
Constituency	South-East France
Member of the National Assembly for Alpes-Maritimes's 5th constituency
In office 1993–1997
Preceded by	Christian Estrosi
Succeeded by	Christian Estrosi

Personal details
Born	(1944-02-04) 4 February 1944 (age 80) Roquebillière, France
Political party	RPR UMP

Gaston Franco (born 4 February 1944 in Roquebillière, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the South-East France constituency.

Franco represented Alpes Maritimes' 5th constituency in the National Assembly as a member of the Rally for the Republic between 1993 and 1997. In addition, he is Mayor of Saint-Martin-Vésubie since 1989 and represented the Canton of Saint-Martin-Vésubie in the General Council until he resigned in 2008 to join the cabinet of the Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi.

In the 2009 European elections, he was the fourth candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the South-East region, and was elected to the European Parliament.

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