François Zocchetto
François Zocchetto is a French lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Senate of France from 2001 until 2017, representing the Mayenne department. He is a member of the Centrist Alliance and caucuses with the Centrist Union. In 2019, he joined independent law firm De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés in Paris as a partner.
Career in the private sector
A chartered accountant, Zocchetto began his private career with an audit/accounting and statutory auditor firm, and then founded in 1987 a law firm in business law for small and medium-sized enterprises located in Paris and Western France.Political career
In the 2012 French presidential election, Zocchetto supported François Bayrou before endorsing Nicolas Sarkozy in the election's second round.In 2013, Jean-Louis Borloo of the Union of Democrats and Independents included Zocchetto in his shadow cabinet; in this capacity, he served as opposition counterpart to Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira.