# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-wurtz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:19:23.142Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-wurtz"
name: "Francis Wurtz"
slug: "francis-wurtz"
description: "Francis Wurtz is a former French Member of the European Parliament, serving from 1979 until 2009. Elected in the Île-de-France constituency on the French Communist Party (PCF) ticket, he sat with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) group, and was its President. He was nominated by GUE/NGL as their candidate for President of the European Parliament in the 2004 election, where he received 51 votes."
tagline: "French politician and MEP"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Wurtz_Front_de_Gauche_2009-03-08.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1948-01-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.96
  momentum:             2.727272727272728
  historical:           7.009972
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://franciswurtz.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wurtz"
    title: "Francis Wurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "فرانسيس ورتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wurtz"
    title: "Francis Wurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wurtz"
    title: "Francis Wurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wurtz"
    title: "Francis Wurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wurtz"
    title: "Francis Wurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wurtz"
    title: "Francis Wurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wurtz"
    title: "Francis Wurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q568949"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump