Background
SIMEONI, Max was born on August 28, 1929.
Member of the European Parliament politician
SIMEONI, Max was born on August 28, 1929.
Medicine; spoken languages: French.
He was elected to the European Parliament in 1989 as a candidate of the autonomist Union of the Corsican People on the list of the French Greens led by Antoine Waechter. His parliamentary assistant was François Alfonsi, who became himself Member of the European Parliament in 2009. He later tried unsuccessfully to be a candidate for the 1995 French presidential election.
He is the brother of the historical Corsican autonomist leader Edmond Simeoni.
Like Djida Tazdaït, the other non-Green Member of the European Parliament elected on the list, he refused to abide to the Greens tourniquet rule by which every elected official had to resign at mid-term to prevent the political professionalization.