Jean Louis Marie Le Pen is a French far-right politician who served as President of the National Front from 1972 to 2011. He also served as Honorary President of the National Front from 2011 to 2015.
The National Rally,until 2018 known as the National Front,is a nationalist,right-wing populist and far-right political party in France. It is the largest parliamentary opposition group in the National Assembly and the party has seen its candidate reach the second round in the 2002,2017 and 2022 presidential elections. It is an anti-immigration party,advocating significant cuts to legal immigration and protection of French identity,as well as stricter control of illegal immigration. It also advocates for a 'more balanced' and 'independent' French foreign policy by opposing French military intervention in Africa and by distancing France from the American sphere of influence by leaving NATO's integrated command. It has opposed the European Union (EU) and its related organisations. It also supports French economic interventionism and protectionism,and its economic and social policies are often classified as left leaning;it has a zero tolerance approach towards law and order. The party has been accused of promoting xenophobia and antisemitism.
Mantes-la-Jolie is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of north-central France. It is located to the west of Paris,48.4 km (30.1 mi) from the centre of the capital. Mantes-la-Jolie is a subprefecture;in 2016,it had a population of 44,231.
Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen is a French lawyer and politician who ran for the French presidency in 2012,2017,and 2022. A member of the National Rally,she served as its president from 2011 to 2021. She has been the member of the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais since 2017. Le Pen has been placed as far-right on the political spectrum.
Mantes-la-Ville is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris 48.6 km (30.2 mi) from the center.
The arrondissement of Mantes-la-Jolie is an arrondissement of France in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region. It has 109 communes. Its population is 271,436 (2016),and its area is 759.0 km2 (293.1 sq mi).
Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare is one of the sectors in the Paris Transilien suburban rail network. The trains on this sector depart from Gare Saint-Lazare in central Paris and serve the north and north-west of Île-de-France region with Transilien lines "J" and "L". Transilien services from Paris –Saint-Lazare are part of the SNCF Saint-Lazare rail network.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan,sometimes referred to by his initials NDA,is a French politician serving since 2008 as President of minor party Debout la France. He is its only member of the National Assembly,elected for Essonne's 8th constituency since 1997,and was previously Mayor of Yerres from 1995 to 2017.
Debout la France is a French political party founded by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in 1999 under the name Debout la République as the "genuine Gaullist" branch of the Rally for the Republic (RPR). It was relaunched again in 2000 and 2002 and held its inaugural congress as an autonomous party in 2008. At the 2014 congress its name was changed to Debout la France.
Épône is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is situated on the left bank of the River Seine 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of Paris. Together with Mézières-sur-Seine and La Falaise,it forms a settlement of around 10,000 inhabitants. Its inhabitants are known as Épônois.
The 2012 Quebec general election took place in the Canadian province of Quebec on September 4,2012. Lieutenant Governor Pierre Duchesne dissolved the National Assembly on August 1,2012,following Premier Jean Charest's request. The Parti Québécois were elected to a minority government,with Pauline Marois becoming the first woman to be Premier of Quebec. The Quebec Liberal Party took second place,with Premier Jean Charest losing his seat. The newly formed party Coalition Avenir Québec led by François Legault took third place,while Québec solidaire took 2 seats out of the 125.
Football Club Mantois 78 are a French football club that was founded in 1994. The club is based in Mantes-la-Ville in the suburbs of Paris and is of the Yvelines department. The club's relatively late foundation is due to a merger between three other clubs from the region. The club is often referred to as FC Mantes due to their location,however,their common name is FC Mantois with Mantois being the natural region of the area the club inhabits.
Marion Jeanne Caroline Maréchal,known as Marion Maréchal-Le Pen from 2010 to 2018,is a French politician,part of the Le Pen family,granddaughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of its current leader Marine Le Pen.
The Communautéd'agglomération de Mantes-en-Yvelines is a former administrative entity in the Yvelines département,near Paris. Its administrative center was Mantes-la-Jolie. It was created in December 1999. It was merged into the Communautéurbaine Grand Paris Seine et Oise in January 2016.
The 8th constituency of Yvelines is a French legislative constituency in the Yvelines département.
Steeve Briois is a French politician. In 2017,he was interim leader of the National Front. In 2014,he was elected mayor of Hénin-Beaumont and a member of the European Parliament. From 2011 to 2014,he was general-secretary of the Front National. He was a member of the regional council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais from 1998 to 2014.
AiméBergeal (1912-1973) was a French politician. He served as a member of the French Senate from 1967 to 1973,representing Seine-et-Oise. The Stade AiméBergeal in Mantes-la-Ville was named in his memory.
Renaissance (RE),previously known as La République En Marche !,or sometimes called simply En Marche ! as its original name,is a liberal political party in France.
The 2022 French presidential election was held on 10 and 24 April 2022. As no candidate won a majority in the first round,a runoff was held,in which Emmanuel Macron defeated Marine Le Pen and was re-elected as President of France. Macron,from La République En Marche! (LREM),had defeated Le Pen,leader of the National Rally,once already in the 2017 French presidential election,for the term which expired on 13 May 2022. Macron became the first President of France to win a re-election bid since Jacques Chirac won in 2002.
The 2022 Paris–Nice was a road cycling stage race that took place between 6 and 13 March 2022 in France. It was the 80th edition of Paris–Nice and the fourth race of the 2022 UCI World Tour.
