François RenéJean Lucien Bayrou is a French politician who has presided over the Democratic Movement (MoDem) since he founded it in 2007. A centrist,he was a candidate in the 2002,2007 and 2012 presidential elections. He has also presided over the European Democratic Party (EDP) since 2004.
Renaud Muselier is a French physician and politician who has served as President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur since 2017. A former member of The Republicans (LR),he previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 to 2019.
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.
François Claude Pierre RenéBaroin is a French politician and lawyer who served as Finance Minister from 2011 to 2012,following a stint as Budget Minister in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon. A member of The Republicans (LR),he was a long-time ally of Jacques Chirac and has been Mayor of Troyes in Champagne since 1995.
François Patriat is a French politician of Renaissance who has been serving as president of the party's group in the Senate since 2017. He has represented the Côte-d'Or department in the Senate since 2008. Patriat also served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in 2002 and President of the Regional Council of Burgundy from 2004 until 2015. He was a member of the Socialist Party before joining La République En Marche! in 2017.
Bruno Le Maire is a French politician,writer,and former diplomat who has served as Minister of the Economy and Finance since 2017 under President Emmanuel Macron. A former member of The Republicans (LR),which he left in 2017 to join La République En Marche! (LREM),he was Secretary of State for European Affairs from 2008 to 2009 and Minister of Food,Agriculture and Fishing from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. Le Maire is also a noted author,with his book Des hommes d'État winning the 2008 Edgar Faure Prize.
Franck Riester is a French politician who has been serving as Minister Delegate for Parliamentary Relations in the Government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne since July 2022. He previously served as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex and Élisabeth Borne between 2020 and 2022. A former member of The Republicans,he founded and currently leads the centre-right Agir party.
Michel Sapin is a French politician who served as Minister of Finance from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2014 to 2017. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
Yvan Lachaud is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Gard department,and is a member of the New Centre.
Olivier Carré is a French independent politician who has been serving as the mayor of the city of Orléans since 2015.
Marie-Hélène Thoraval is a French politician who has been serving as Mayor of Romans-sur-Isère since 2014 and as a member of the Regional council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes since 2016.
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.
Richard Ferrand is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as President of the National Assembly from 2018 to 2022. He had served as a member of the National Assembly for Finistère's 6th constituency from 2012 to 2022. A longtime member of the Socialist Party,he was LREM's General Secretary from October 2016. He briefly served as Minister for the Cohesion of Territories between May and June 2017 before resigning due to nepotism accusations. Following his resignation,he became the leader of the party's group in the National Assembly in June 2017 and then was elected to the Chamber's Presidency in September 2018.
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.
Mounir Mahjoubi is a French entrepreneur and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the National Assembly from June to July 2017 and from 2019 to 2022. From 2017 until 2019 was the Secretary of State for Digital Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.
Élisabeth Borne is a French politician who has served as Prime Minister of France since May 2022. She is a member of President Emmanuel Macron's party Renaissance. Borne is the second woman to hold the position of Prime Minister after Édith Cresson,who served from 1991 to 1992.
Xavier Roseren is a French politician and shopkeeper who has served as a member of the French National Assembly for Haute-Savoie's 6th constituency since 2017. He is affiliated with La République En Marche (LREM).
Pierre Person is a French politician who served as the member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of Paris from 2017 until 2022. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM),his constituency covers parts of the 11th and 20th arrondissements. Person is considered a close ally to President Emmanuel Macron in Parliament.
Stéphane Séjourné is a French lawyer and politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2019. Since 2021,he has led Renew Europe,a liberal pro-European parliamentary group. Séjournéwas an adviser to Emmanuel Macron during his ministerial tenure and advised him during his 2017 presidential campaign. In 2022,he became general secretary of Renaissance.
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.
