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David Martin (born 26 August 1954 in Edinburgh) is a British Labour Party politician, and member of the European Parliament for Scotland. He was educated outside of Edinburgh at Liberton High School. He was first elected as a councillor in 1982, and won the Lothians seat in the 1984 European Parliament elections. He retained his seat, and following a reform of the electoral system, was in 1999 elected to represent the whole of Scotland along with other members. He was elected in 1987 as the youngest ever leader of the British Labour delegation of MEPs. He was Vice-President of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2004 the longest period anyone has served in that position. In 2002 he was the defeated Socialist candidate for President of the Parliament. He was the European Parliament's rapporteur on what became the Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties. He is currently the rapporteur for the ACTA treaty in the European parliament. In April 2012, he called for ACTA to be rejected.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.euractiv.com/infosociety/eu-parliament-draftsman-urges-acta-rejection-news-512122 )〕 ==Personal life== Married to Lorraine Davidson with two children. He has two children from a previous marriage. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Martin (Scottish politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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