The president of France,officially the President of the French Republic,is the head of state of France,head of the executive,as well as the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces. As the presidency is the supreme magistracy of the country,the officeholder is the holder of the highest office in France. The powers,functions and duties of prior presidential offices,in addition to their relation with the prime minister and Government of France,have over time differed with the various constitutional documents since the Second Republic.
In politics,a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature,the lower house of a bicameral legislature,or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the representatives of the nation." The population base represented by this name is manifestly the nation as a whole,as opposed to a geographically select population,such as that represented by a provincial assembly. The powers of a National Assembly vary according to the type of government. It may possess all the powers of government,generally governing by committee,or it may function solely within the legislative branch of the government.
The National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic,the upper house being the Senate. The National Assembly's legislators are known as députés,meaning "delegate" or "envoy" in English;etymologically,it is a cognate of the English word deputy,which is the standard term for legislators in many parliamentary systems).
The Senate is the upper house of the French Parliament,which along with the National Assembly—the lower chamber—constitutes the legislature of France. It is made up of 348 senators elected by part of the country's local councillors,as well as by representatives of French citizens living abroad. Senators have six-year terms,with half of the seats up for election every three years.
The Legislative Assembly was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to 20 September 1792 during the years of the French Revolution. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention.
The French Parliament is the bicameral legislature of the French Republic,consisting of the Senate and the National Assembly. Each assembly conducts legislative sessions at separate locations in Paris:the Senate meets in the Palais du Luxembourg and the National Assembly convenes at Palais Bourbon.
The Assembly of French Polynesia is the unicameral legislature of French Polynesia,an overseas country of the French Republic. It is located at Place Tarahoi in Papeete,Tahiti. It was established in its current form in 1996 although a Tahitian Assembly was first created in 1824. It consists of 57 members who are elected by popular vote for five years;the electoral system is based upon proportional representation in six multi-seat constituencies. Every constituency is represented by at least three representatives. Since 2001,the parity bill binds that the number of women matches the number of men elected to the Assembly.
The Government of France,officially the Government of the French Republic,exercises executive power in France. It is composed of the Prime Minister,who is the head of government,as well as both senior and junior ministers. The Council of Ministers,the main executive organ of the Government,was established in the Constitution in 1958. Its members meet weekly at the Élysée Palace in Paris. The meetings are presided over by the President of France,the head of state,although the officeholder is not a member of the Government.
The unicameral Assembly of the Union of the Comoros is the country's legislative body. It was established in 2004.
The National Assembly is the unicameral legislature of Senegal. The Assembly was previously part of a bicameral legislature from 1999 to 2001 and from 2007 to 2012,with the indirectly elected Senate being the upper house. The Senate was abolished for a second time in September 2012.
Alain Marc is a member of the French Senate,who represents the department of Aveyron.
Alain Néri is a French politician. He was the deputy for Puy-de-Dôme's 2nd constituency from 1997 to 2011 in the National Assembly of France. He was then senator for Puy-de-Dôme from 2011 to 2017. He is a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche.
Jacques Grosperrin is French politician of The Republicans who has been a member of the Senate since the 2014 elections,representing the Doubs department. Previously he served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 2007 until 2012.
Stéphane Demilly is a French politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) who served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 until 2020,representing the Somme department.
François Calvet is a French politician,a member of the National Assembly. He represents the Pyrénées-Orientales department,and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. On 25 September 2011 he was elected senator of the Pyrénées-Orientales and therefore leaves the National Assembly. His deputy is Jean-Pierre Romero,mayor of Port-Vendres. He is a member of the Study Group on the question of Tibet of National Assembly.
The Assembly of French Citizens Abroad is the political body that represents French citizens living outside France. The assembly advises the government on issues involving French nationals living outside France,as well as the role of France in overseas developments. Membership consists of 90 representatives elected among and by an electorate composed of all 442 elected consular representatives,across 15 worldwide electoral districts.
The politics of France take place with the framework of a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the French Fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible,secular,democratic,and social Republic". The constitution provides for a separation of powers and proclaims France's "attachment to the Rights of Man and the principles of National Sovereignty as defined by the Declaration of 1789."
Richard Ferrand is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as President of the National Assembly from 2018 to 2022. He had served as a member of the National Assembly for Finistère's 6th constituency from 2012 to 2022. A longtime member of the Socialist Party,he was the General Secretary LREM from October 2016 and became the leader of the party's group of the National Assembly in June 2017.
Paris's 19th constituency was one of the 21 French National Assembly constituencies in the Paris department in the period 1988 to 2012. It was abolished in the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies,which reduced the number of constituencies in Paris to 18. The territory of the 19th constituency,in the north of Paris,corresponds almost exactly with the post-2012 17th constituency.
Paris's 20th constituency was one of the 21 French National Assembly constituencies in the Paris department in the period 1988 to 2012. The constituency covered three districts of the 19th arrondissement:Pont-de-Flandres,Amérique and Combat.
