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.
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.
CNews is a French free-to-air opinion channel launched on 4 November 1999 by Groupe Canal+. It provides 24-hour national and global news coverage. It is the second most watched news network in France,after BFM TV and before LCI and France Info.
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 fourth constituency for French residents overseas is one of eleven constituencies each electing one representative of French citizens overseas to the French National Assembly.
The Republican Right group,formerly the Union for a Popular Movement group from 2003 and 2015 and The Republicans group from 2015 to 2024,is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of The Republicans (LR),formerly the Union for a Popular Movement.
Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency is one of two French legislative constituencies in the department of Territoire de Belfort. It is currently represented by Ian Boucard of The Republicans (LR).
The 2nd constituency of Territoire-de-Belfort is a French legislative constituency in the Territoire-de-Belfort département.
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.
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.
Adam Lenaïck is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who was a member of the National Assembly from 2018 until 2022,representing department of French Guiana.
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.
Pierre-Henri Dumont is a French politician of the Republicans who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly from June 2017 to 2024,representing the Pas-de-Calais's 7th constituency. His constituency contains the port city of Calais.
Éric Monnin is a French sports historian and sociologist,specializing in the International Olympic Movement. He holds a senior secondary school teaching degree in Physical Education and Sports. He graduated with a PhD in sociology and is a lecturer accredited to conduct research at the University of Franche-Comté. He is a member of the Culture,Sport,Health,Society (C3S) laboratory at the University of Franche-Comté.
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.
Gilberte Céline Marin-Moskovitz was a French Socialist Party politician who served as deputy of Territoire de Belfort's 2nd constituency in the National Assembly from 1988 to 1991 and again from 1997 to 2000. She was also elected a councillor to the Belfort Municipal City Council in 1977 and was a four-term General Councillor of the canton of Belfort-Sud between 1982 and 2008. Marin-Moskovitz was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1996.
Joseph Rivière is a French politician of the National Rally. He was elected member of the National Assembly for Réunion's 3rd constituency in 2024.
