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Due to latest elections in order to renew French Parliament (1st turn : june 10th, 2nd turn : june 17th), I wanted to give you the last news about the French representatives who were involved in video game debate : are they re-elected or not ?

Here they are :

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[B][U]Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres :[/U][/B]
[U]Notable personal background :[/U]
- Born in March 13th, 1954, in Neuilly Sur Seine.
[U]Notable Political background :[/U]
- French Culture Minister from 2004 to 2007
- UMP Representative for Indre-et-Loire from 2002 to 2007. Note : UMP is for "Union pour un Mouvement Populaire". It is main French conservative party, created by former President Jacques Chirac and directed by actual President Nicolas Sarkozy until he was elected.
- Town counselor in Tours.
[U]Video game background :[/U]
- Active supporter of video game industry.
- Decorated many game designers (Shigeru Miyamoto, Michel Ancel, Frédéric Raynal and Peter Molyneux) as Knights of Arts and Letters.
- Supported an amendment in order to have tax breaks for game industry, proposed by his colleague Patrice Martin-Lalande (see below).
- Even if it's not about video games, RDDV is mostly known and very criticized for supporting the infamous DAVDSI law about copyrights. This law is controversial because it is very restrictive against peer-to-peer softwares and private copy, and indeed, the way RDDV supported it was, in itself, controversial. This law was first rejected, then voted last year.
[U]Election results :[/U]
Tried to be re-elected in Indre-et-Loire. Defeated last june 17th with 48,93% votes (against 51,07 % for his opponent)
[U]Significant quotes about video games :[/U]
- [I]"Video games are full part of our culture, they require particularly inventive talents, technologically as well as artistically. They belong at the same time to industry and creation".[/I]
[U]Personal website :[/U] [URL]http://www.rddv.com/[/URL]

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[B][U]Patrice Martin-Lalande :[/U][/B]
[U]Personal background :[/U]
- Born in december 2nd, 1947, in Grenoble.
[U]Political background :[/U]
- UMP representative of Loir-et-Cher since 1993.
[U]Video game background :[/U]
- In december 8th, 2005, he [URL=http://www.patricemartinlalande.net/content/view/730/522/]talked about a tax break for video games.[/URL]
- In september 11th, 2006, he organized a colloquium, [URL=http://www.patricemartinlalande.net/images/jeux%20vid%C3%A9o%20-%20synth%C3%A8se%20du%20colloque%20du%2011%20septembre%202006%20organis%C3%A9%20par%20patrice%20martin-lalande.pdf]"Which politics for video games ?"[/URL] in French Parliament, in order to discuss about political initiatives to support video games and video game industry.
- In december 2006, he [URL=http://www.patricemartinlalande.net/images/jeux%20vid%C3%A9o%20-%20amendement%20relatif%20au%20cr%C3%A9dit%20d%5C%27imp%C3%B4t.pdf]drafted and presented an amendment[/URL] in order to have tax breaks for video game industry. This amendment was first rejected, then voted in february 2007.
[U]Election results :[/U]
- Tried to be re-elected as representative for Loir-et-Cher. Re-elected with 55,15% voted (against 44,85% for his opponent).
[U]Significant quotes about video games :[/U]
- Qualified video games as a [I]"cultural revolution"[/I].
[U]Personal website :[/U] [URL]http://www.patricemartinlalande.net/[/URL]

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[B][U]Bernard Depierre :[/U][/B]
[U]Notable Personal background :[/U]
- Born in june 6th, 1945 (exactly one year after D-Day in Normandy !!) in Bourbon-Lancy.
[U]Notable Political background :[/U]
- UMP representative for Côte-d'Or since 2002.
[U]Video game background :[/U]
- In november 2006, after the Italian moral panic over [I]Rule of the Rose[/I], he drafted, supported and presented (with Lionnel Luca and Jacques Rémiller) an amendment in order to ban totally "very violent video games". This amendment was rejected. Details are [URL=http://www.gamepoliticsforums.com/showthread.php?t=692]in this thread.[/URL] In particular, he inaccurately descripted [I]Rule of the Rose[/I] as a rape simulator, but he retracted and apologized after some French gamers contacted him and explained him he was making a big mistake.
- In february 2007, he proposed two amendments in order to regulate "very violent video games", but this time he didn't call for a ban any longer. Details are [URL=http://www.gamepoliticsforums.com/showthread.php?t=1525]in this thread.[/URL]
[U]Election results :[/U]
- Tried to be re-elected as representative for Côte d'Or. Re-elected in june 17th with 55,44% votes (against 44,56% for his opponent).
[U]Significant quotes about video games :[/U]
- When he presented his initial amendment : [I]"You randomly shoot people, you slaughter children in schools, you run down pedestrians, you rape, you torture, you slaughter... Here are the games our children play on their computers. (...) The action of the game Rules of Rose [sic] is located into a British boarding school in the 1930's. The goal of the game let appear an unacceptable sadism and perversion : it is about raping a little girl in the most horrible conditions, then killing her with the worst pain. The one who shows the vilest, the most repulsive ignominy, wins the game"[/I]
- After being contacted by French gamers : [I]"I wanted to officially point out that the statements about the game RoR were, actually, partially wrong, and consequently I sincerely regret them. There is actually no direct call to rape a teenager in this game. I wanted to precise that I retired all the mentions I had made about it when the information , that contradicted the one given by the EU Commission and its vice-president Mr. Frattini (who gave a particularly alarming description of this game), was confirmed to me. I actually believed that the EU Commission was a serious caution. I was apparently wrong. This being said, you will agree that the ambience of the game was particularly insane and requires the greatest attention and scrutiny, in a context of the protection of the youngest and the most vulnerable people."[/I]
- When he presented his new amendment : [I]"Video game is a society phenomenon and a prosperous economic market in which our country has a major place. It is an artistic creation that must be supported. Indeed, because of it, our government decided to give tax breaks in order to support video game creation, therefore giving them a cultural value. But a double statement must be made, by taking care of not assimilating too quickly all video games altogether."[/I]
[U]Personal website :[/U] [URL]http://www.bernard-depierre.com/[/URL]

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[B][U]Lionnel Luca :[/U][/B]
[U]Notable personal background :[/U]
- Born in december 19th, 1954 in Boulogne-sur-Seine (a.k.a. Boulogne-Billancourt).
- High school teacher in history and economy.
- Professional rugbyman and rugby trainer.
[U]Notable political background :[/U]
- UMP Representative for Alpes-Maritimes since 1997.
- Mayor of ViIleneuve-Loubet from 1995 to 2001.
- Supporter of the Dalaï-Lama and the Tibetan cause.
[U]Video game background :[/U]
- Drafted and supported in 2002 a law in order to enforce video game ratings and classify some games as "very violent".
- Supported and presented in november 2006 (with Bernard Depierre and Jacques Rémiller) an amendment in order to ban totally "very violent video games". This amendment was rejected.
- Blamed video games among other things after a fight involving high schoolers from the town of Meaux (in december 2006), that caused the death of a 17-years-old boy.
[U]Election results :[/U]
- Tried to be re-elected as representatives for Alpes-Maritimes. Re-elected with 63.14% votes in the first turn (june 10th).
[U]Significant quotes about video games :[/U]
- About [I]Rule of the Rose[/I] : [I]"Raping a 5-years-old girl, making torture scenes, it's ordinary nazism (...) Raping a 7-months-old baby", that's what you read as if it was nothing. And I think that we crossed a new scary threshold in barbarity, and I call it nazism. A nazism that doesn't say its name... but we tolerate it... and there's no freedom for barbarity and shameful acts."[/I] (in an [URL=http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/high-tech/0,,3360677,00-lionnel-luca-face-jeu-rule-rose-.html]interview for French Channel LCI[/URL] in november 27th, 2006).
[U]Personal website :[/U] [URL]http://www.lionnel-luca.org/[/URL]

So here are the main French politicians that I know, who got involved in video game debate. I plan to update this thread when I get the chance.

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