Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin

Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot (born 24 December 1946 in Nevers) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

Career

• Doctor of Pharmacy
• Head of the UMP list for the Grand Ouest region in the European elections on 13 June 2004
• Member of the UMP executive bureau
• Member of the Maine-et-Loire Departmental Council (1982-1988)
• Elected to the Pays de Loire Regional Council (1986)
• became Vice-Chairwoman and chaired the Committee on Regional Planning and the Environment
• RPR Member for the first Maine-et-Loire constituency (1988-2002)
• member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs
• general rapporteur for the monitoring centre on equality between men and women
• Chairwoman of the study group on disabled people
• Chairwoman of the study group on the Iraqi question
• Spokeswoman for Jacques Chirac's presidential campaign (2002)
• Minister for Ecology and Sustainable Development in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government (2002-2004)
• Founder of the agency to safeguard the banks of the Loire and its tributaries
• Chairwoman of the National Council for Disabled People (1995-1998)
• Chairwoman of the Euro-Arab Parliamentary Association (1998-2002), elected in Damascus in 2002
• Deux femmes au royaume des hommes (with Geneviève Fraisse), Hachette, 1998
• Le Pacs, entre haine et amour, Plon, 2000
• Les maires