Charente-Maritime is a département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region on the southwestern coast of France. Named after the river Charente,its prefecture is La Rochelle. As of 2019,it had a population of 651,358 with an area of 6,864 square kilometres.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005 under President Jacques Chirac.
Poitou-Charentes was an administrative region on the southwest coast of France. It is part of the new region Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It comprised four departments:Charente,Charente-Maritime,Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. It included the historical provinces of Angoumois,Aunis,Saintonge and Poitou.
The Movement for France was a conservative Eurosceptic French political party,founded on 20 November 1994,with a marked regional stronghold in the Vendée. It was led by Philippe de Villiers,once communications minister under Jacques Chirac.
Christian Paul Gilbert Estrosi is a French sportsman and politician and the Mayor of Nice since 2017,previously holding the office from 2008 to 2016. A former professional motorcyclist,he served as a government minister under Presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. Estrosi also served as President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur from 2015 to 2017 and First Deputy Mayor of Nice from 2016 until 2017. He is a former member of The Republicans,which he left in 2021 to join Horizons.
Dominique Bussereau is a French politician. He is president of the departmental council of Charente-Maritime since 2008 and president of the Assembly of the Departments of France since 2015.
RenéMonory was a French centre-right Gaullist politician.
Arvert is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.
Étaules is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.
Nicole Bonnefoy is a member of the Senate of France,representing the Charente department. She is a member of the Socialist Party.
Catherine Quéré is a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party.
Jean-Louis Léonard (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃lwileɔnaʁ];born 24 July 1950 in Besançon is a French politician and a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Maxime Bono is a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party. He has been mayor of La Rochelle from April 1999 to April 2014,president of the Agglomeration community of La Rochelle from January 2000 to April 2014 and an MP of the Charente-Maritime's 1st constituency from April 1999 until June 2012. During his two mandates,he was a member of the Socialist,Radical,Citizen and Miscellaneous Left parliamentary group.
The Politics of Poitou-Charentes,France takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democracy,whereby the President of Regional Council is the head of government,and of a pluriform multi-party system. Legislative power is vested in the regional council.
The 5th constituency of Charente-Maritime is one of five electoral districts in the department of Charente-Maritime,each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system,with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the largest administrative region in France by area,spanning the west and southwest of Metropolitan France. The region was created in 2014 by the merging of Aquitaine,Limousin,and Poitou-Charentes in a territorial reform. Nouvelle-Aquitaine has an area of 84,035.7 km2 (32,446.4 sq mi) –more than 1⁄7 of Metropolitan France –and has a population of 6,033,952 as of 2020. The new region was established on 1 January 2016,following the regional elections in December 2015.
Raphaël Gérard is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who has been a member of the French National Assembly since 2017,where he represents the 4th constituency of Charente-Maritime.
Benoît Biteau is a French farmer,agronomist and politician who was elected the deputy for the 2nd constituency of Charente-Maritime in the National Assembly in the 2024 legislative election. He ran under the The Ecologists (LÉ) banner,part of the New Popular Front (NFP) alliance.
Miss Poitou-Charentes is a French beauty pageant which selects a representative for the Miss France national competition from the region of Poitou-Charentes. Women representing the region under various different titles have competed at Miss France since 1957,although the Miss Poitou-Charentes title was not used regularly until 2006.
Christophe Plassard is a French politician. He was elected Member of Parliament in 2022 as part of the Ensemble coalition.
