France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with a bicameral legislature. Public officials in the legislative and executive branches are either elected by the citizens or appointed by elected officials. Referendums may also be called to consult the French citizenry directly on a particular question,especially one which concerns amendment to the Constitution.
Jean-Claude Gaudin is a French politician for The Republicans. He served as the Mayor of Marseille from 1995 to 2020.
Ange Édouard Poungui is a Congolese politician. Poungui was the Prime Minister of Congo-Brazzaville from 7 August 1984 to 7 August 1989 under President Denis Sassou Nguesso. He was chosen as the candidate of the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS) for the 2009 presidential election,but was barred from running.
Joël Bourdin is a former member of the Senate of France who represented the Eure department. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Jean-RenéLecerf is a French politician and a former member of the Senate of France. He represented the Nord department and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party until 2015.
François Rebsamen is a French politician who was the Minister of Social Affairs from 2014 to 2015. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
Jean Boyer at Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire),is a French politician,member of The Centrists.
Cantonal elections to elect half the membership of the general councils of France's 100 departments were held on 20 and 27 March 2011.
Eugenie Eboue-Tell was a politician from French Guiana who was elected to the French Senate in 1946 and reelected in 1948. She was the first black woman elected to the French National Assembly.
Jacques Cornano is a French politician who was elected to the French Senate on 25 September 2011,representing the Department of Guadeloupe.
The 2016 election of members to the Senate of the Philippines was the 32nd election of members to the Senate of the Philippines. The seats of 12 senators elected in 2010 were filled during this election. The winners in this election joined the winners of the 2013 election to form the 17th Congress of the Philippines. The senators elected in 2013 served until June 30,2019,while the senators elected in this election would serve up to June 30,2022.
Senators in France are elected by indirect universal suffrage,by a panel of "electors". Half of the Senate seats are up for election every three years;the term of office is six years.
Patrick Kanner is a French politician serving as president of the Socialist group and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate since 2018. A member of the Socialist Party,he has represented the department of Nord since 2017. Kanner previously served as President of the General Council of Nord from 2011 to 2014 and Minister of the City,Youth and Sports from 2014 to 2017.
Senatorial elections were held on 24 September 2017 to renew 170 of 348 seats in the Senate of the French Fifth Republic.
Aline Hanson was a native of Saint Martin,who was noted as a teacher and then became the first woman elected president of the Collectivity of Saint Martin. Hanson began her career in education,working as a teacher,advisor to the French government on developing programs for disadvantaged children and principal of Sandy Ground Elementary School. She entered politics,simultaneously working as a teacher,in the mayoral office of Marigot. Serving on numerous island boards and government entities,in 2007 she ran for a seat on the Territorial Council and was elected as a council member. Two years later,she was promoted to the executive council. In 2012,after winning a seat on the council,she was selected as first vice president. When Richardson was forced from office in 2013,Hanson was elected as the first woman to serve as president of the Overseas Collectivity of St. Martin.
Adolphe Marie DieudonnéCicéron was a French notary who was Senator of Guadeloupe from 1900 to 1912.
Annick Danièle Petrus is a French Saint Martinois educator and politician. She has served as the Senator for the Collectivity of Saint Martin since October 2020 as a member of the Union for Democracy and The Republicans (LR) parties. Petrus is the first woman to represent Saint Martin's lone seat in the French Senate. Additionally,she has served in the Territorial Council of Saint Martin since 2017.
Micheline Jacques is a French Barthélemois politician. She has served in the French Senate for Saint Barthélemy since 1 October 2020 as a member of The Republicans (LR). Jacques is the first woman to represent Saint Barthélemy in the national Senate since the seat's creation in 2008.
By-elections to the Swiss Federal Council were held on 7 December 2022,after federal councillors Ueli Maurer (SVP-ZH) and Simonetta Sommaruga (SP-BE) announced they would leave the Council effective 31 December of the same year. The parliament elected Albert Rösti and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider respectively to replace them.
Alexandra Borchio Fontimp,born 5 October 1981 in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes) is a French journalist and a current politician.
