Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher was a French politician who briefly served as Acting President of France twice,in 1969 and 1974. He held the office ad interim as President of the Senate following the resignation of Charles de Gaulle and the death of Georges Pompidou. Poher was affiliated with the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) until 1966 and later with the Democratic Centre (CD) and Centre of Social Democrats (CSD),which he joined in 1976.
Xavier Bertrand is a French politician who has been serving as president of the regional council of Hauts-de-France since the 2015 regional elections.
Bruno Bonnell is a French businessman and politician who represented the 6th constituency of Rhône in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM),he is a co-founder of Infogrames Entertainment SA.
Christian Jacob is a French politician who was the president of the Republicans party from 2019 to 2022. Over the course of his career,he held several cabinet positions,including as the Minister of French Civil Service in Jacques Chirac's second term as President of France.
Delphine Arnault is a French businesswoman,director and executive vice president at Louis Vuitton,and chairwoman and chief executive officer of Dior. She is the daughter of Bernard Arnault and sister of Antoine Arnault.
Roger Karoutchi is a French teacher and politician who has been serving as the first Vice President of the French Senate since 2020. He previously served as the French Ambassador to the OECD and as Secretary of State to the French Prime Minister,with responsibility for Relations with Parliament.
Bruno Daniel Marie Paul Retailleau is a French politician who has presided over The Republicans group in the Senate since 2014. He has represented the Vendée department in the Senate since 2004. Retailleau also served as President of the General Council of Vendée from 2010 to 2015 and President of the Regional Council of Pays de la Loire from 2015 until 2017.
François Cornut-Gentille is a French politician of the Republicans who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since 1993,representing the Haute-Marne department.
The Val-de-Marne's fifth constituency is a French legislative constituency in the Val-de-Marne département.
The Union of Democrats and Independents is a centre to centre-right political party in France and former electoral alliance founded on 18 September 2012 on the basis of the parliamentary group of the same name in the National Assembly. The party was composed of separate political parties who retained their independence,but always in coalition with the biggest right wing party The Republicans. As most of them have been expelled or have left,the Democratic European Force is the last founding party to participate in the UDI.
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician serving as the 25th and current president of France since 2017. Ex officio,he is also one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra. Earlier,he served as the Minister of Economics,Industry and Digital Affairs under President François Hollande from 2014 to 2016 and Deputy Secretary-General to the President from 2012 to 2014.
The Republicans is a liberal-conservative political party in France,largely inspired by the Gaullist tradition. The party was formed on 30 May 2015 as the re-incorporation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP),which had been established in 2002 under the leadership of then President of France Jacques Chirac.
Legislative elections were held in France on 11 and 18 June 2017 to elect the 577 members of the 15th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They followed the two-round presidential election won by Emmanuel Macron. The centrist party he founded in 2016,La République En Marche! (LREM),led an alliance with the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem);together,the two parties won 350 of the 577 seats—a substantial majority—in the National Assembly,including an outright majority of 308 seats for LREM. The Socialist Party (PS) was reduced to 30 seats and the Republicans (LR) reduced to 112 seats,and both parties' allies also suffered from a marked drop in support;these were the lowest-ever scores for the centre-left and centre-right in the legislative elections. The movement founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon,la France Insoumise (FI),secured 17 seats,enough for a group in the National Assembly. Among other major parties,the French Communist Party (PCF) secured ten and the National Front (FN) obtained eight seats. Both rounds of the legislative election were marked by record low turnout.
Renaissance (RE) is a liberal and centrist political party in France. The party was originally known as En Marche ! and later La République En Marche ! before adopting its current name in September 2022.
Esther Benbassa is a French-Turkish-Israeli historian and politician. She specializes in the history of Jews and other minorities. Since 2011,Benbassa has served as a French senator,representing Paris from 2017 onwards and Val-de-Marne from 2011 to 2017.
Christophe Castaner is a French politician who served as Minister of the Interior from 16 October 2018 to 6 July 2020 under President Emmanuel Macron. He had been elected in 2017 for a three-year term as chairman of the La République En Marche! party with Macron's support. Castaner was Government Spokesperson under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in 2017 and Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament from 2017 to 2018. He was also Macron's 2017 presidential campaign spokesman.
Sylvain Maillard is a French entrepreneur and politician serving both as the member of the National Assembly for the 1st constituency of Paris since 2017 and as the Renaissance group leader in the Assembly since 2023. A member of Renaissance (RE),his constituency encompasses the 1st,2nd,8th and part of the 9th arrondissement.
Albane Gaillot is a French politician who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2022,where she represented the 11th constituency of Val-de-Marne. From 2016 until 2019,she was a member of La République En Marche (LREM). In May 2020,she was one of 17 deputies who formed the new Ecology,Democracy,Solidarity group in the National Assembly.
Aurélien Taché is a French politician who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017,representing the department of Val-d'Oise. He was elected in 2017 as a member of La République En Marche! (LREM) but left the party in 2020,and joined the short-lived Ecology Democracy Solidarity group,then The New Democrats. In 2022,we was re-elected as a New Democrat,as part of the NUPES group.
Jean-Louis Thiériot is a French lawyer,essayist and Member of the french Parliament for the right-wing parliamentary group Les Républicains (Republican). Mayor of Beauvoir from 2008 to 2018,he had been President of the Conseil Départemental de Seine-et-Marne in 2018 and is still Conseiller Départemental du Canton de Nangis. He has been French MP for Seine-et-Marne since 2018 and a member of the Defense Commission.
