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 1995 to 2004.
Bernadette Bourzai is a French politician and Member of the Senate of France representing the Department of Corrèze.
Yannick Vaugrenard is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party,which is part of the Party of European Socialists,and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
Jean-Pierre Chevènement is a French politician who served as a minister in the 1980s and 1990s best known for his candidacy in the 2002 French presidential election. After serving as mayor of Belfort,he was elected to the Senate for the Territoire de Belfort in 2008. As a cofounder of the PS and founder of the Republican and Citizen Movement (MRC),he is a significant figure of the French left.
Marta Vincenzi is an Italian politician and former Mayor of Genoa. She was previously a Member of the European Parliament for the North-West of Italy with the Democrats of the Left (DS),part of the Socialist Group from 2004 until she resigned on 29 June 2007.
Le vicomte Gilles de Robien is a French politician and former government minister.
Christian Paul Gilbert Estrosi is a French sportsman and politician who has served as Mayor of Nice since 2017,previously holding the office from 2008 to 2016. A former professional motorcyclist,he served as a government minister under Presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. Estrosi also served as President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur from 2015 to 2017 and First Deputy Mayor of Nice from 2016 until 2017. He is a former member of The Republicans,which he left in 2021 to join Horizons.
Jean-Jack Queyranne is a French politician. He has been the Regional President of the Rhône-Alpes since June 2002 and is a deputy in the National Assembly from the seventh district of Rhône. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
A dual mandate is the practice in which elected officials serve in more than one elected or other public position simultaneously. This practice is sometimes known as double jobbing in Britain and cumul des mandats in France;not to be confused with double dipping in the United States. Thus,if someone who is already mayor of a town or city councillor becomes elected as MP or senator at the national or state legislature and retains both positions,this is a dual mandate.
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.
The French municipal elections of 2008 were held on 9 and 16 March to elect the municipal councils of France's 36,782 communes. The first task of each newly constituted municipal council was to elect a mayor.
Gérard Philippe RenéAndréLarcher is a French politician serving as President of the Senate since 2014,previously holding the office from 2008 to 2011. A member of The Republicans,he has been a Senator for the Yvelines department since 1986,with an interruption between 2004 and 2007,when he was Minister for Employment,Labour and Professional Integration of Young People under President Jacques Chirac. Larcher also served as Mayor of Rambouillet from 1983 to 2004 and again from 2007 until 2014.
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.
Bernard Guy Georges Cazeneuve is a French politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 December 2016 to 15 May 2017. A member of the Socialist Party,he represented Manche’s 5th constituency in the National Assembly from 1997 to 2002 and again from 2007 to 2012. On 4 May 2022,following the Socialist Party's electoral coalition agreement with the leftist La France Insoumise,he left the Socialist Party because he felt La France Insoumise did not match the values and morals of the Socialist Party.
Catherine Quéré is a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party.
Serge Letchimy is the President of the Executive Council of Martinique and former member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the island of Martinique's 3rd constituency since June 2007,and is a member of The Socialists and affiliated parliamentary group. Letchimy is a member of the Martinican Progressive Party (PPM),or Parti progressiste martiniquais. He was the successor of AiméCésaire as Mayor of Fort de France from 2001 to 2010 and was the final President of the Regional Council of Martinique from 26 March 2010 until its replacement by the Assembly of Martinique in December 2015.
Valérie Fourneyron is a former French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as Chair of the Board of the International Testing Agency (ITA) since 2017. She previously served as Junior Minister for Crafts,Trade,Tourism and Social Economy in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls from 2014 until 2017. She was also a member of the National Assembly and the Mayor of Rouen.
Étienne Blanc is a French politician who has served as a Senator for Rhône since 2020. A member of The Republicans (LR),he previously served as Mayor of Divonne-les-Bains (1991–2019) and represented the 3rd constituency of Ain in the National Assembly (2002–2016). Blanc was also First Vice President of the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes from 2016 to 2020.
Sylvie Guillaume is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Socialist Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Françoise de Veyrinas,born Gardey de Soos,was a French politician and Member of the European Parliament.
