Jean-Pierre Cubertafon

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (June 2017) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Jean-Pierre Cubertafon]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Jean-Pierre Cubertafon}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Jean-Pierre Cubertafon
Cubertafon in July 2017
Member of the National Assembly for Dordogne's 3rd constituency
In office 21 June 2017 – 9 June 2024
Preceded by	Colette Langlade
Succeeded by	Florence Joubert
Mayor of Lanouaille
In office 18 June 1995 – 31 July 2017
Preceded by	Jane Lataste
Succeeded by	Jean-Christophe Boulanger
Personal details
Born	Jean-Pierre Louis Cubertafon (1948-02-05) 5 February 1948 (age 78) Lanouaille, France
Party	Democratic Movement
Other political affiliations	Rally for the Republic (formerly) Union for French Democracy (formerly)

Jean-Pierre Louis Cubertafon (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ kybɛʁtafɔ̃]; born 5 February 1948) is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who represented the 3rd constituency of the Dordogne department in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2024.

Political career

Cubertafon was first elected a municipal councillor of Lanouaille in 1977. He was elected to the mayorship in 1995. He is formerly affiliated with the Rally for the Republic and the Union for French Democracy.

In the 2017 legislative election he contested Dordogne's 3rd constituency for the Democratic Movement and defeated outgoing Socialist deputy Colette Langlade with 51% of the second-round vote to take the seat. In Parliament, he served on the Committee on National Defence and the Armed Forces. In addition to his committee assignment, he was part of the French-Armenian Parliamentary Friendship Group, the French-Bolivian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Moroccan Parliamentary Friendship Group.

In 2020, Cubertafon ran for the Senate in Dordogne but was defeated by Communist Marie-Claude Varaillas with 46.9% of the second-round vote. In 2022 he ran for reelection and placed second in the first round behind the Independent Workers' Party candidate. He won the second round with just 36.2% of the vote in a triangular election, as the National Rally candidate had qualified as well.

In 2021, Cubertafon received anonymous death threats.

In the 2024 snap election, he placed third in the first round with 23.3% of the vote and withdrew ahead of the second round. In 2025, Prime Minister François Bayrou tasked him with a six-month mission "to assess the situation of loneliness and isolation in rural areas, to identify and evaluate public policies on the matter, and to formulate concrete recommendations to address it".

Honours

• Knight of the Legion of Honour (2025)
• Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite (2014)

References