Bertrand Delanoë is a French retired politician who served as Mayor of Paris from 2001 to 2014. A member of the Socialist Party (PS),he previously served in the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and Senate from 1995 until 2001.
Harlem Jean-Philippe Désir is a French politician who served in the government of France as Secretary of State for European Affairs from 2014 to 2017. Previously he was First Secretary of the French Socialist Party. Since 2017,he has served as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.
Marie-Noëlle Lienemann is a French politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the North West of France. Until 2018,she was a member of the Socialist Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Martine Louise Marie Aubry is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from November 2008 to April 2012,and has been the Mayor of Lille (Nord) since March 2001;she is also the first female to hold this position. Her father,Jacques Delors,served as Minister of Finance under President François Mitterrand and was also President of the European Commission.
AndréVallini is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the Senate since 2017.
Italian Renewal was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy.
Alain Richard is a French politician who has been serving as Senator for Val-d'Oise since 2011.
Municipal elections were held in France on 11 and 18 March 2001. These elections were marked by a setback for the left and a victory for the right one year before the 2002 presidential election. However,the capital,Paris and the second largest city,Lyon both switched to the left.
Alain Anziani is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as president of Bordeaux Métropole since 2020. From 2008 to 2017,he was member of the Senate of France,representing the Gironde department.
David Assouline is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the Senate of France since 2004,representing the city of Paris. He is simultaneously a councillor for the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Jean-Noël Guérini is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the Senate of France since 1998,representing the Bouches-du-Rhône department. He was the president of the General council of Bouches-du-Rhône from 1998 to 2015 and member of the municipal council of Marseille since 1977. He was a member of the Socialist Party.
Jean-Pierre Sueur is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the Senate of France since 2001,representing the Loiret department.
Catherine Génisson is French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who represented the Pas-de-Calais department in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2011 and later in the French Senate from 2011 to 2017.
Claude Bartolone is a Tunisian-born French politician who served as President of the National Assembly of France from 2012 to 2017.
Marylise Lebranchu is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as Minister of the Reform of the State and of Decentralisation under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
The 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary was the first open primary of the French Socialist Party and Radical Party of the Left for selecting their candidate for the 2012 presidential election. The filing deadline for primary nomination papers was fixed at 13 July 2011 and six candidates competed in the first round of the vote. On election day,9 October 2011,no candidate won 50 percent of the vote,and the two candidates with the most votes contested a runoff election on 16 October 2011. François Hollande ultimately won the primary,defeating Martine Aubry.
First Secretary of the Socialist Party Martine Aubry began a campaign for the Socialist Party and Radical Party of Left presidential primary,2011 for President of France in June 2011. Aubry announced she was running for president during a meeting in former train station of Lille-Saint-Sauveur held on 28 June 2011.
The Socialist Party is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. It holds pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major political parties in the French Fifth Republic,along with The Republicans. It replaced the earlier French Section of the Workers' International in 1969 and is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists,Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
Angelo Tasca was an Italian politician,writer and historian. Born in Moretta,in the Piedmont region of Italy,he was a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy but was expelled in 1929 for his opposition to Stalinism and supporting the Right Opposition of Nikolai Bukharin. Having experienced persecution by the Fascist regime in Italy,he took refuge in France in 1926 and gained citizenship in 1936. After joining the French Section of the Workers' International in 1934,he worked as a writer for the newspaper Le Populaire.
Laurence Rossignol is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has served as a member of the French Senate from 2011 to 2014 and again since 2017,representing Oise. From 2014 to 2017,she served as Secretary of State for the Family,Senior Citizens and Autonomy in the governments of Prime Ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve.
