In the administrative divisions of France,the department is one of the three levels of government under the national level,between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety-six departments are in metropolitan France,with an additional five constituting overseas departments,which are also classified as overseas regions. Departments are further subdivided into 333 arrondissements and 2,054 cantons. These last two levels of government have no political autonomy,instead serving as the administrative basis for the local organisation of police,fire departments as well as,in certain cases,elections.
The Radical Party of the Left is a social-liberal political party in France. A party in the Radical tradition,since 1972 the PRG was a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France,the Socialist Party. After the 2017 presidential and legislative elections,negotiations to merge the PRG with the Radical Party began and the refounding congress to reunite the parties into the Radical Movement was held on 9 and 10 December 2017. However,a faction of ex-PRG members,including its last president Sylvia Pinel,split from the Radical Movement in February 2019 due to its expected alliance with La République En Marche in the European elections and resurrected the PRG.
Benoît Hamon is a French politician known for his former role within the Socialist Party (PS) and Party of European Socialists (PES) and his political party Génération.s.
The Democratic and Republican Left group is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of the French Communist Party (PCF) as well as leftist parties with bases in Overseas France.
HervéFéron is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Meurthe-et-Moselle department,is a member of the Socialist Party and of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche parliamentary group.
The Socialists and affiliated group is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly of France that includes representatives of the Socialist Party (PS).
Jean-Yves Le Déaut is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Meurthe-et-Moselle department,and is a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche.
Michel Liebgott is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Moselle department,and is a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche.
Michel Vergnier was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Creuse department's only constituency until 2017,and is a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche.
The Left Front was a French electoral alliance and a political movement created for the 2009 European elections by the French Communist Party and the Left Party when a left-wing minority faction decided to leave the Socialist Party,and the Unitary Left,a group which left the New Anticapitalist Party. The alliance was subsequently extended for the 2010 regional elections and the 2012 presidential election and the subsequent parliamentary election.
Legislative elections were held in France on 10 and 17 June 2012 to select the members of the 14th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic,a little over a month after the presidential election run-off held on 6 May.
The 3rd constituency of Meurthe-et-Moselle is a French legislative constituency in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département.
The 5th constituency of Meurthe-et-Moselle is a French legislative constituency in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département.
Caroline Fiat is a French politician who has represented the 6th constituency of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the National Assembly since 2017. She is a member of La France Insoumise,having previously been an activist in the French Communist Party. Since 29 June 2022,Fiat has held one of the six vice presidencies of the National Assembly. Outside of politics,she works as a medical caregiver.
Valérie Rabault is a French engineer and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has presided over the Socialists and affiliated group in the National Assembly since 2018. She has represented the 1st constituency of the Tarn-et-Garonne department in Parliament since 2012.
Carole Delga is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as the President of the Regional Council of Occitania since 2016.
Mathieu Klein is a French politician serving as Mayor of Nancy since 2020.
The Republican and Socialist Left is a socialist political party in France. It was founded on 3 February 2019 after the merger of the Alternative for a Republican,Ecologist and Socialist Program (APRÉS) and the Citizen and Republican Movement (MRC) of Jean-Luc Laurent and Jean-Pierre Chevènement. APRÉS had been founded in October 2018 by Emmanuel Maurel and Marie-Noëlle Lienemann after their departure from the Socialist Party and was close to La France Insoumise.
Legislative elections were held in France on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. The elections took place following the 2022 French presidential election,which was held in April 2022. They have been described as the most indecisive legislative elections since the establishment of the five-year presidential term in 2000 and subsequent change of the electoral calendar in 2002. The governing Ensemble coalition remained the largest bloc in the National Assembly but substantially lost its ruling majority,resulting in the formation of France's first minority government since 1993.
The New Ecological and Social People's Union is a left-wing electoral alliance of political parties in France. Formed on May Day 2022,the alliance includes La France Insoumise (LFI),the Socialist Party (PS),the French Communist Party (PCF),Europe Ecology –The Greens (EELV),Ensemble! (E!),and Génération.s (G.s),and their respective smaller partners. It was the first wide left-wing political alliance since the Plural Left in the 1997 French legislative election. Over 70 dissident candidates who refused the accord still ran.
