Doubs is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comtéregion in Eastern France. Named after the river Doubs,it had a population of 543,974 in 2019. Its prefecture is Besançon and subprefectures are Montbéliard and Pontarlier.
Haut-Rhin is a département in the Grand Est region,France,bordering both Germany and Switzerland. It is named after the river Rhine. Its name means Upper Rhine. Haut-Rhin is the smaller and less populated of the two departments of the former administrative Alsace region,the other being the Bas-Rhin. Especially after the 1871 cession of the southern territory known since 1922 as Territoire de Belfort,although it is still rather densely populated compared to the rest of metropolitan France. It had a population of 767,083 in 2021.
Haute-Saône is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comtéregion of northeastern France. Named after the river Saône,it had a population of 235,313 in 2019. Its prefecture is Vesoul;its sole subprefecture is Lure.
The Territoire de Belfort is a department in the northeastern French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. In 2020 it had a population of 140,120. The department,which encompasses a relatively small surface area of 609.4 km2,is located just southwest of the European Collectivity of Alsace. It also shares a border with the Swiss canton of Jura to the southeast. Its prefecture is Belfort.
Épinal is a commune in northeastern France and the prefecture of the Vosges department.
Christophe Bouillon was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2020. He represented Seine-Maritime's 5th constituency as a member of the Socialist,Radical,Citizen and Miscellaneous Left. From 2015 to 2018 he was chairman of the board of ANDRA,the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency.
Jean-Michel Clément is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since the 2007 elections,representing the 3rd constituency of the Vienne department. He is a former member of La République En Marche! (LREM) and of the Socialist Party.
Joël Giraud is a French politician who briefly served as Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities under Prime Minister Jean Castex in 2022. A member of both Renaissance (RE) and the Radical Movement (MR),he previously represented the 2nd constituency of the Hautes-Alpes department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2020 and served as Secretary of State for Rurality from 2020 until 2022.
Michel Zumkeller is a French politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI),part of the Radical Party,who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France,representing the Territoire de Belfort department.
The Republicans group,formerly the Union for a Popular Movement group,is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of The Republicans (LR),formerly the Union for a Popular Movement.
The 15th legislature of the French Fifth Republic was the French Parliament that was in office from 27 June 2017 until 21 June 2022. The party of President Emmanuel Macron,La République En Marche! (LREM),obtained an absolute majority of 308 deputies,alongside its ally,the Democratic Movement (MoDem),which secured 42 seats. The newly-installed deputies elected François de Rugy as President of the National Assembly when the National Assembly first convened on 27 June. The legislative election saw a record level of renewal,with only a quarter of the deputies elected in 2012 also elected in 2017,as well as a significant increase in the representation of women and youth. With seven planned parliamentary groups,it would be the most fragmented National Assembly since 1958.
Yaël Braun-Pivet is a French lawyer and politician who was President of the French National Assembly from 28 June 2022 to 9 June 2024. She is the first woman to have held this position. A member of Renaissance (RE),she was previously Minister of Overseas Territories under Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from May to June in 2022. She has been a member of the French National Assembly since 2017,representing the department of Yvelines.
The first round of a by-election was held in Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency on 28 January 2018,with a second round on 4 February because no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was called due to the invalidation of the election of Ian Boucard,candidate of The Republicans (LR),in the June 2017 legislative elections by the Constitutional Council on 8 December 2017,due to the distribution of misleading electoral leaflets by Boucard's campaign between the two rounds.
Ian Boucard is a French politician who has represented the 1st constituency of the Territoire de Belfort department in the National Assembly since February 2018,previously holding the seat from June to December 2017. A member of The Republicans (LR),the Constitutional Council nullified his first election,a decision that triggered a by-election in early 2018 in which he was reelected.
Liberties,Independents,Overseas and Territories,formerly Liberties &Territories,is a catch-all parliamentary group in the French National Assembly. It was formed on 17 October 2018,with deputies from centre-left and centre-right parties,as well as Corsican nationalist parties.
The Sustainable Development,Spatial and Regional Planning Committee is one of the eight standing committees of the French National Assembly.
Anne-Yvonne Le Dain is a French politician. She was the Socialist Member of Parliament for Hérault's 2nd constituency from 2012 to 2017.
The Departmental Council of Territoire de Belfort is the deliberative assembly of the Territoire de Belfort department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It consists of 18 members from 9 cantons.
Cédric Perrin is a French politician who has represented the Territoire de Belfort in the Senate since 2014. He is a member of The Republicans (LR),formerly the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Since 26 October 2023,he has presided over the bicameral Délégation parlementaire au renseignement,which supervises France's three main intelligence agencies.
