Robert Navarro is a French politician

Politics of France

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 and French Senator representing Hérault

Hérault

Hérault is a department in the south of France named after the Hérault river.-History:Hérault is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

. He is a member of the 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...

 (PS), which is part of the Party of European Socialists

Party of European Socialists

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He was elected Senator

French Senate election, 2008

Indirect Senate elections were held for 114 of the 343 seats in the French Senate on 21 September 2008. With this election, the number of senators was increased from 331 to 343; Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin elected two senators each for the first time...

 on 21 September 2008, on the official PS list, which came third behind the Union for a Popular Movement

Union for a Popular Movement

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 (UMP) and 'renegade' PS lists in the Département of Hérault, which returns four Senators.

Until this point, he had been a member of the European Parliament

European Parliament

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, to which he was elected

European Parliament election, 2004

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 in 2004.

Career

• Baccalaureate
• Executive, French National Railway Company (SNCF)
• Socialist Party federal secretary, Hérault (1978)
• Member of the Socialist Party national council (1978)
• Vice-Chairman of the Languedoc-Roussillon Council (1998)
• Chairman of the Socialist Party Group on the Languedoc-Roussillon Council (1998)
• Member of the European Parliament (2004–2008)
• Senator from Hérault (2008- )

External links

• Official website (in French
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