Bertrand Delanoë is a French retired politician who served as Mayor of Paris from 2001 to 2014. A member of the Socialist Party (PS),he previously served in the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and Senate from 1995 until 2001.
Alain Marie Juppé is a French politician. A member of The Republicans,he was Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac,during which period he faced major strikes that paralysed the country and became very unpopular. He left office after the victory of the left in the snap 1997 legislative elections. He had previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995,and as Minister of the Budget and Spokesman for the Government from 1986 to 1988. He was president of the political party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) from 2002 to 2004 and mayor of Bordeaux from 2006 to 2019.
Édouard Balladur is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under François Mitterrand from 29 March 1993 to 17 May 1995. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1995 French presidential election,coming in third place.
In the 1980s and 1990s there were,in the Paris region (Île-de-France),multiple instances of alleged and proved political corruption cases,as well as cases of abuse of public money and resources. Almost all involved were members of the conservative Rally for the Republic (RPR) ruling party,which became the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in 2002.
Jean Tiberi is a French politician who was mayor of Paris from 22 May 1995 to 24 March 2001. As of 2007,he was mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris and deputy to the French National Assembly from the second district of Paris.
Jacques Chaban-Delmas was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. He was the Mayor of Bordeaux from 1947 to 1995 and a deputy for the Gironde département between 1946 and 1997.
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres,often known as RDDV,is a French politician,France's Minister of Culture from 2004 to 2007. He is a member of the UMP center-right party,and the grandson of Henri Donnedieu de Vabres.
Jacques Barrot was a French politician,who served as European Commissioner for Justice between 2008 and 2010,after having spent four years serving as Commissioner for Transport (2004–2008) and Commissioner for Regional Policy for eight months (2004). He was also one of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission. He previously held various ministerial positions in France,and was a member of the right-wing political party UMP. He was officially approved in his post by the European Parliament on 18 June 2008 with a vote of 489 to 52 with 19 abstentions.
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.
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.
Bernard Stasi was a French politician. He was the son of Italo-Mexican immigrants. Stasi served as Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories from 2 April 1973 to 27 February 1974.
Patrick Devedjian was a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. A close adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy since the 1990s,he was Minister under the Prime Minister in charge of the Implementation of the Recovery Plan,a special ministerial post created for two years following the global financial crisis of 2008,a tenure which commenced in December 2008. He was of Armenian descent. In the night of 28 to 29 March 2020,he died of COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic.
Jean-Jack Queyranne is a French politician. He was the Regional President of the Rhône-Alpes from June 2002 until January 2016. He was a deputy in the National Assembly from the seventh district of Rhône. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
Patrick Ollier is a French politician. He is the Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison. He was a national assembly deputy for Hauts-Alpes's 2nd constituency from 1988 to 2002,as a member of the UMP. Secondly for Hauts-de-Seine's 7th constituency from 2002 to 2017. He was briefly the President of the National Assembly in 2007. He is the partner of Michèle Alliot-Marie,Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the government of François Fillon.
François Gérard Marie Léotard was a French politician. Singer and actor Philippe Léotard was his brother.
Charles Marie Philippe Millon is a French politician who served as Minister of Defence from 1995 to 1997 under Prime Minister Alain Juppé. A former member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF),he represented Ain in the National Assembly,where he took the presidency of the UDF group over from Jean-Claude Gaudin from 1989 until 1995. Millon also held the mayorship of his native town of Belley from 1977 to 2001 and presidency of the Regional Council of Rhône-Alpes from 1988 to 1999.
AndréSantini is a French politician and current mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux,Hauts-de-Seine.
Jean-François Copé is a French politician serving as Mayor of Meaux since 1995 with an interruption from 2002 to 2005. He was Government Spokesman between 2002 and 2007,when assumed other tenures in the government—including Minister of the Budget—at the same time. He also served as the member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of Seine-et-Marne and president of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) group in the National Assembly. In November 2010 he became the party's secretary-general. In August 2012 he announced that he would run for the presidency of the UMP,facing the former Prime Minister François Fillon.
Jean-Pierre Soisson (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃pjɛʁswasɔ̃];was a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement. He was a deputy in the National Assembly of France for the first district of Yonne for several terms between 1968 and 2012;mayor of Auxerre from 1971 to 1998;President of the Regional Council of Burgundy;and national minister of youth,labour,public administration and agriculture.
Michel Mercier is a French politician and who served as Minister of Justice from 2010 until 2012.
