Dominique Marie François RenéGalouzeau de Villepin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 31 May 2005 to 17 May 2007 under President Jacques Chirac.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005.
The Union for a Popular Movement was a liberal-conservative political party in France,largely inspired by the Gaullist tradition. During its existence,the UMP was one of the two major parties in French politics along with the Socialist Party (PS). In May 2015,the party was succeeded by The Republicans.
The Union for French Democracy was a centre-right political party in France. The UDF was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over the political right in France. This name was chosen due to the title of Giscard d'Estaing's 1976 book,Démocratie française.
François RenéJean Lucien Bayrou is a French politician who has presided over the Democratic Movement (MoDem) since he founded it in 2007. A centrist,he was a candidate in the 2002,2007 and 2012 presidential elections. He has also presided over the European Democratic Party (EDP) since 2004.
Xavier RenéLouis Bertrand is a French politician. Previously,he was president of the regional council of Hauts-de-France since the 2015 regional elections.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Christian Paul Gilbert Estrosi is a French sportsman and politician and the 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.
Legislative elections were held in France on 10 June and 17 June 2007 to elect the 13th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic,a few weeks after the presidential election run-off on 6 May. 7,639 candidates stood for 577 seats,including France's overseas possessions. Early first-round results projected a large majority for President Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and its allies;however,second-round results showed a closer race and a stronger left. Nevertheless,the right retained its majority from 2002 despite losing some 40 seats to the Socialists.
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.
Nathalie Geneviève Marie Kosciusko-Morizet,often referred to by her initials NKM,is an engineer and former politician.
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.
Marie-Josée Roig,née Méliorat,was a French politician.
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.
Catherine Vautrin is a French politician who has been serving as Minister of Labour,Health and Solidarity in Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's government since 2024. A former member of the Republicans (LR),she served as a member of the National Assembly of France,representing the Marne department.
Solidary Republic is a centre-right political party in France launched by Dominique de Villepin,a former Prime Minister,on 18 June 2010.
