Carl Lang
Carl Lang | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1994–2009 | |
Personal details | |
Born | National Front Party of France | 20 September 1957
Carl Lang (born 20 September 1957) is a
National Front from 1978 to 2008; he is currently president and co-founder of the Party of France (Front National and Party of France are both classified by their opponents as a far-right party
).
He was a member of the europarliamentary group "
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
.
Carl Lang is also a substitute for the
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a member of the delegation for relations with Belarus, and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Romania
Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Ahead of the 2009 European elections, he announced that he would run a dissident FN list against the official FN list led by Marine Le Pen in the North-West constituency.
Career
- State diploma as a masseur-physiotherapist (1980)
- Secretary-General of the National Front (1988–1995, 1998–2006)
- Member of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Regional Council (since 1992)
- Member of the European Parliament (since 1994)