French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) in the South Pacific Ocean. The total land area of French Polynesia is 3,521 square kilometres (1,359 sq mi),with a population of 299,356.
The president of France,officially the President of the French Republic,is the executive head of state of France,and 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.
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 National Guard is a French military,gendarmerie,and police reserve force,active in its current form since 2016 but originally founded in 1789 during the French Revolution.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,transgender (LGBT) rights in France have been among some of the most progressive in the world. Although same-sex sexual activity was a capital crime that often resulted in the death penalty during the Ancien Régime,all sodomy laws were repealed in 1791 during the French Revolution. However,a lesser-known indecent exposure law that often targeted LGBT people was introduced in 1960 before being repealed in 1980.
Laurent Timothée Marie Wauquiez is a French politician who has presided over the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes since 2016. He is a member of The Republicans (LR),which he led from 2017 to 2019 following the resignation of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Debout la France is a French political party founded by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in 1999 under the name Debout la République as the "genuine Gaullist" branch of the Rally for the Republic (RPR). It was relaunched again in 2000 and 2002 and held its inaugural congress as an autonomous party in 2008. At the 2014 congress its name was changed to Debout la France.
Jakup Jimmy Durmaz,formerly known as Jimmy Touma,is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Turkish club Fatih Karagümrük. He began his career at BK Forward and moved in 2008 to MalmöFF,where he won the Allsvenskan title in 2010. He had two seasons each with Gençlerbirliği of Turkey and Olympiacos of Greece,winning two Superleague Greece titles and one Greek Cup. Durmaz made his senior international debut for Sweden in 2011. He was part of their squads for UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Marion Jeanne Caroline Maréchal,known as Marion Maréchal-Le Pen from 2010 to 2018,is a French politician,part of the Le Pen family,granddaughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of its current leader Marine Le Pen.
The 2018 Quebec general election was held on October 1,2018,to elect members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The election saw a landslide victory for the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) led by François Legault,which won 74 of 125 seats,giving the party a majority and unseating the Quebec Liberal Party. The Liberals became the Official Opposition with 31 seats.
Anthony Turgis is a French professional racing cyclist,who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Team TotalEnergies. He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España. In July 2018,he was named in the start list for the Tour de France.
Legislative elections in France were held on 11 and 18 June 2017 to elect the 577 members of the 15th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They followed the two-round presidential election won by Emmanuel Macron. The centrist party he founded in 2016,La République En Marche! (LREM),led an alliance with the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem);together,the two parties won 350 of the 577 seats—a substantial majority—in the National Assembly,including an outright majority of 308 seats for LREM. The Socialist Party (PS) was reduced to 30 seats and the Republicans (LR) reduced to 112 seats,and both parties' allies also suffered from a marked drop in support;these were the lowest-ever scores for the centre-left and centre-right in the legislative elections. The movement founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon,la France Insoumise (FI),secured 17 seats,enough for a group in the National Assembly. Among other major parties,the French Communist Party (PCF) secured ten and the National Front (FN) obtained eight seats. Both rounds of the legislative election were marked by record low turnout.
A special election was held on June 6,2017,to elect the member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 34th congressional district. A special open primary election was held on April 4,2017.
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.
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.
Events from the year 2017 in France.
The 15th legislature of the French Fifth Republic was the French Parliament that was in office from 27 June 2017 until 21 June 2022. The party of President Emmanuel Macron,La République En Marche! (LREM),obtained an absolute majority of 308 deputies,alongside its ally,the Democratic Movement (MoDem),which secured 42 seats. The newly-installed deputies elected François de Rugy as President of the National Assembly when the National Assembly first convened on 27 June. The legislative election saw a record level of renewal,with only a quarter of the deputies elected in 2012 also elected in 2017,as well as a significant increase in the representation of women and youth. With seven planned parliamentary groups,it would be the most fragmented National Assembly since 1958.
Yaël Braun-Pivet is a French lawyer and politician who has served as President of the French National Assembly since 28 June 2022. She is the first woman to hold this position. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM),she was previously Minister of the Overseas under Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in 2022. Braun-Pivet is currently serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 2017,representing the department of Yvelines.
Alain Gautier is a French professional offshore sailor. He is best known for winning the 1992–1993 Vendée Globe. He currently heads Lanic Sport Development which was founded in 1989,specializing in the preparation of and assistance to offshore racing teams including those of Ellen MacArthur in 1998 and Isabelle Joschke in 2019. He headed with Bertrand Pacéthe Aleph challenge for the 34th America's Cup in 2013 but the team never got the funding required. It competed in the America's Cup World Series on supplied AC45 catamarans before withdrawing.
Legislative elections in France were held on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. The elections took place following the 2022 French presidential election,which was held in April 2022. They have been described as the most indecisive legislative elections since the establishment of the five-year presidential term in 2000 and subsequent change of the electoral calendar in 2002.
