Benoît Hamon is a French politician known for his former role within the Socialist Party (PS) and Party of European Socialists (PES) and his political party Génération.s.
Martine Louise Marie Aubry is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from November 2008 to April 2012,and has been the Mayor of Lille (Nord) since March 2001;she is also the first female to hold this position. Her father,Jacques Delors,served as Minister of Finance under President François Mitterrand and was also President of the European Commission.
Patrick Bloche is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2017. In parliament,he was part of the SRC parliamentary group.
Daniel Vaillant is a French Socialist politician.
Ana María "Anne" Hidalgo Aleu is a Spanish-French politician who has served as Mayor of Paris since 2014,the first woman to hold the office. She is a member of the Socialist Party.
Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti is a French-Spanish politician who has served as a Barcelona city councillor from 2019 to 2021. He served as Prime Minister of France from 2014 until 2016 under president François Hollande.
Aurélie Filippetti is a French politician and novelist. She served as French Minister of Culture and Communications from 2012 until 2014,first in the government of Jean-Marc Ayrault and then in the government of Manuel Valls.
Claude Bartolone is a Tunisian-born French politician who served as President of the National Assembly of France from 2012 to 2017.
Gaëtan Gorce is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Nièvre department,and is a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche.
George Pau-Langevin is a French lawyer and politician. A member of the Socialist Party (PS). Close to Bertrand Delanoë,she was deputy for the 21st constituency of Paris from 2007 to 2012,then re-elected in the 15th constituency,which took over roughly the same territory in Paris,in 2012. She was the Minister Delegate for Educational Success in the governments of Jean-Marc Ayrault from 2012 to 2014,then was appointed Minister of Overseas Territories in 2014 in the governments of Manuel Valls. Resigning in 2016,she regained her seat as a deputy and was re-elected the following year. She left the National Assembly in November 2020,following her appointment as Deputy Defender of Rights.
Jean-Jacques Urvoas is a French politician. He was minister of Justice from 2016 to 2017. He represented Finistère's 1st constituency in the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2016,as a member of the Socialist,radical,citizen and miscellaneous left.
Michel Sapin is a French politician who served as Minister of Finance from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2014 to 2017. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
Presidential elections were held in France on 23 April and 7 May 2017. As no candidate won a majority in the first round,a runoff was held between the top two candidates,Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! (EM) and Marine Le Pen of the National Front (FN),which Macron won with a difference of more than 30% of the vote. The presidential election was followed by a legislative election to elect members of the National Assembly on 11 and 18 June. Incumbent president François Hollande of the Socialist Party (PS) was eligible to run for a second term,but declared on 1 December 2016 that he would not seek reelection in light of low approval ratings,making him the first incumbent head of state of the Fifth Republic not to seek reelection.
The Socialist Party is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. 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.
Myriam El Khomri is a former French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as Minister of Labour in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls from 2015 to 2017.
The French Socialist Party held a two-round presidential primary to select a candidate for the 2017 presidential election on 22 and 29 January 2017. It was the second open primary held by the center-left coalition,after the primary in 2011 in which François Hollande defeated Martine Aubry to become the Socialist nominee. Hollande went on to defeat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential election. However,because of his low approval rating,he announced that he would not seek re-election,becoming the first president of the Fifth Republic to decide not to run for a second term. The primary was contested by seven candidates,four from the Socialist Party and three representing other parties part of the left-wing electoral alliance.
La France Insoumise is a left-wing populist political party in France,launched in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon,then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former co-president of the Left Party (PG). It aims to implement the eco-socialist and democratic socialist programme L'Avenir en commun.
Olivier Faure is a French politician who has served as the First Secretary of the Socialist Party since 2018 and Member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne's 11th constituency since 2012. He was elected to the post of first secretary in the party's Aubervilliers Congress and re-elected in the 2021 Villeurbanne Congress. Faure was previously the head of the New Left group,the parliamentary group formed around the PS in the National Assembly,from December 2016 to April 2018.
Pierre Person is a French politician who served as the member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of Paris from 2017 until 2022. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM),his constituency covers parts of the 11th and 20th arrondissements. Person is considered a close ally to President Emmanuel Macron in Parliament.
Anne-Christine Lang is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly for Paris since 2014. A member of the Socialist Party (PS) until she joined La République En Marche! (LREM) in 2017,she first represented the 9th constituency as Jean-Marie Le Guen's substitute following his appointment as Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament by President François Hollande. In the 2017 legislative election,she ran in the neighbouring 10th constituency,which covers parts of the 13th and 14th arrondissements. Lang also served as a Councillor of Paris from 2001 until 2020.
