Yves Piétrasanta | |
Birth Date: | 19 August 1939 |
Birth Place: | Mèze, Hérault, France |
Office1: | Mayor of Mèze |
Term Start1: | 1977 |
Term End1: | 2001 |
Preceded1: | Georges Jean |
Succeeded1: | Yvon Pibre |
Office2: | Member of the European Parliament for France |
Term Start2: | July 20, 1999 |
Term End2: | February 2, 2004 |
Succeeded2: | Marie-Françoise Duthu |
Party: | Radical Party of the Left (until 1991) Ecology Generation (1991–1997) The Greens (1998–2008) |
Yves Piétrasanta (19 August 1939 – 28 May 2022) was a French politician.[1] He served as the mayor of Mèze from 1977 to 2001.[2] Piétrasanta also served as The Greens Member of the European Parliament for France.[3] He was a president candidate of the Génération Ecologie in 2012, later withdrawing on 7 February 2012 and joining another politician, François Hollande's campaign team.[4] [5] In 2018, he retired from the leadership of Génération Ecologie and was succeeded by Delphine Batho.[6]
Piétrasanta died in May 2022, at the age of 82.[7]