Robert Hue is a French politician who was National Secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1994 to 2001 and President of the PCF from 2001 to 2002. He served as a Deputy in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2002,and he has served in the Senate of France between 2004 and 2017.
Pierre Moscovici is a French politician who served as the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs,Taxation and Customs from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014 and as Minister for European Affairs between 1997 and 2002.
Philippe Douste-Blazy is a French United Nations official and former centre-right politician. Over the course of his career,he served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations,Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development in the UN and chairman of UNITAID.
Adeline Hazan is a French politician,who was one of the Members of the European Parliament for the east of France from 1999 to 2008,and mayor of Reims from March 2008 to April 2014.
Jean-Louis Debré is a former French judge and politician who served as President of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 and President of the Constitutional Council from 2007 to 2016. He was Minister of the Interior from 1995 until 1997 during the presidency of Jacques Chirac. Since 2016 he has been President of the Superior Council of Archives.
Dominique Gaston AndréStrauss-Kahn is a French economist,politician,former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),and a figure in the French Socialist Party who attained notoriety due to his involvement in several sexual scandals. He is often referred to in the media,and by himself,by his initials DSK. Strauss-Kahn was appointed managing director of the IMF on 28 September 2007,with the backing of then–President of France Nicolas Sarkozy. He served in that capacity until his resignation on 18 May 2011,in the wake of an allegation that he had sexually assaulted a hotel maid. Other allegations followed,but he was acquitted.
Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie,known in France as MAM,is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Republicans,part of the European People's Party. A member of all right-wing governments formed in the 1980s,1990s and 2000s,she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense (2002–2007),the Interior (2007–2009) and Foreign Affairs (2010–2011);she has also been in charge of Youth and Sports (1993–1995) and Justice (2009–2010),and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices.
Marie-George Buffet is a French politician. She was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 2001 to 2010. She joined the Party in 1969,and she served in the government as Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports from 4 June 1997 to 5 May 2002. Buffet was re-elected on 16 June 2002 to another five-year term in the National Assembly as a representative of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Jean-Louis Marie Borloo is a French politician who served as president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) from 2012 to 2014. He also was Minister of the Economy,Finance and Employment in 2007 and Minister of Ecology,Energy,Sustainable Development and the Sea from 2007 until 2010 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Élisabeth Guigou is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2002 until 2017,representing Seine-Saint-Denis' 9th constituency.
Gaston Defferre was a French Socialist politician. He served as mayor of Marseille for 33 years until his death in 1986. He was minister for overseas territories in Guy Mollet’s socialist government in 1956–1957. His main achievement was to establish the framework used to grant independence to France’s African territories. As the Socialist candidate for president in 1969,he received only 5 percent of the vote. He was much more successful in promoting François Mitterrand as leader of the Socialist Party in 1971. He held a series of ministerial portfolios after the Socialist victory in 1981,especially as minister of state for the interior and decentralization.
The Nanterre massacre was a mass murder that occurred on 27 March 2002,in Nanterre,France. Gunman Richard Durn opened fire at the end of a town council meeting,resulting in the deaths of eight councillors and the injury of nineteen others. Durn committed suicide the following day,by leaping from a police station window during questioning.
Nathalie Geneviève Marie Kosciusko-Morizet,often referred to by her initials NKM,is an engineer,public figure and advocate,having previously had a political career.
Huguette Bello is a French politician from Réunion.
François Loncle is a French politician. He represented the 4th constituency of the Eure department in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2017 as a member of the Socialist Party.
Patrick Balkany is a French politician.
The Socialist Party is a centre-left,social-democratic,political party in France. It holds pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the French left and used to be one of the two major political parties in the French Fifth Republic,along with The Republicans. It replaced the earlier French Section of the Workers' International in 1969 and is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists,Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
Waldeck L'Huillier (1905-1986) was a French politician. He served as a Communist member of the Senate in the 1950s and of the National Assembly from the early 1950s to the end of the 1970s.
Ensemble!,officially Ensemble –Movement for a Leftist,Ecologist,and Solidary Alternative,is a French left-wing political party,defining itself as anti-capitalist,anti-racist,feminist and eco-socialist. It was launched in November 2013 by several smaller groupings.
Krista Sager is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party who served as party co-leader between 1994 and 1996,and co-leader of the Greens group in the Bundestag between 2002 and 2005.
