Gaston Franco

{{Short description|French politician}}

{{BLP sources|date=January 2020}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Gaston Franco

| image = Gaston Franco par Claude Truong-Ngoc mai 2013.jpg

| caption = Gaston Franco in 2013

| office = Member of the European Parliament

| term_start = 14 July 2009

| term_end = 30 June 2014

| constituency = South-East France

| office2 = Member of the National Assembly
for Alpes-Maritimes's 5th constituency

| term_start2 = 1993

| term_end2 = 1997

| predecessor2 = Christian Estrosi

| successor2 = Christian Estrosi

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|02|04|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Roquebillière, France

| party = RPR
UMP

}}

Gaston Franco (born 4 February 1944 in Roquebillière, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the South-East France constituency.{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96908/GASTON_FRANCO/history/7|title=Gaston Franco|accessdate=18 January 2020|publisher=European Parliament}}

Franco represented Alpes Maritimes' 5th constituency in the National Assembly as a member of the Rally for the Republic between 1993 and 1997. In addition, he is Mayor of Saint-Martin-Vésubie since 1989 and represented the Canton of Saint-Martin-Vésubie in the General Council until he resigned in 2008 to join the cabinet of the Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi.

In the 2009 European elections, he was the fourth candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the South-East region, and was elected to the European Parliament.