Jean-Claude Frécon
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Jean-Claude Frécon is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Loire
Loire
Loire is an administrative department in the east-central part of France occupying the River Loire's upper reaches.-History:Loire was created in 1793 when after just 3½ years the young Rhône-et-Loire department was split into two. This was a response to counter-Revolutionary activities in Lyon...

 department, and has served in the Congress of the Council of Europe since 1994, of which he is the current President of Chamber of Local Authorities
Chamber of Local Authorities
The Chamber of Local Authorities is one of the two Chambers of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. The Chamber is the voice of local authorities in the Council of Europe...

 (elected in 2010)in the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe having served as a Vice-President in Congress since 2002 and as President of the Congress French Delegation since 2004.

He is a member of the French Socialist Party
Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

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Congressional Profile

Jean-Claude Frécon is the Vice-President of the Group of independent experts on the European Charter of local self-government, and as a result was the Congress spokesman in June 1998 on “finances and responsibilities of local administration in Europe” and in June 2000 on “ financial resources of local administration, responsibilities and the principle of subsidiarity”.

He is the Congress Spokesman on: Azerbaijan, "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Romania, the financial situation of local administration in Germany and general Spokesman for the European Forum of local democracy in Kiev (2009).

He has been an elections observer in the following countries:
  • Albania
  • Azerbaijan
  • "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
  • Israel
  • Palestine
  • Romania
  • Chechnya


He has been instrumental in missions in Sarajevo for the preparation of elections, in Morocco for the implementation of decentralisation and for monitoring missions in Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Croatia, Georgia, Montenegro, Russia, Slovenia, Latvia.
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