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 278,786 of which at least 205,000 live in the Society Islands and the remaining population lives in the rest of the archipelago.
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 position is 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 7th arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French,this arrondissement is referred to as le septième.
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,the standard term for legislators in many parliamentary systems.
Papeete is the capital city of French Polynesia,an overseas collectivity of the French Republic in the Pacific Ocean. The commune of Papeete is located on the island of Tahiti,in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands,of which Papeete is the administrative capital. Both the President of French Polynesia and French High Commissioner reside in Papeete.
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. 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 is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for TFF First League club Gençlerbirliği.
Black French people also known as French Black people or Afro-French (Afro-Français) are French people who are of African or Melanesian ancestry. It also includes people of mixed African/Melanesian and French ancestry.
François Henri Goullet de Rugy is a French politician who served as President of the National Assembly from 2017 to 2018 and Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition from 2018 to 2019.
Philippe Folliot is a French politician who serves as a member of the National Assembly of France,representing the Tarn department. He is the founder of the Centrist Alliance.
Marion Jeanne Caroline Maréchal,known as Marion Maréchal-Le Pen from 2010 to 2018,is a French far-right 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.
Legislative elections were held in France 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. It was 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.
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 Renaissance (RE),she was previously Minister of Overseas Territories under Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from May to June in 2022. She has been a member of the French National Assembly since 2017,representing the department of Yvelines.
Wendy Maria Carrillo Dono is an American politician serving in the California State Assembly. A Democrat,she represents the 52nd State Assembly district,encompassing parts of northeastern Los Angeles and East Los Angeles. She was sworn into office by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon on December 16,2017. Carrillo is the first Salvadoran immigrant and the first formerly illegal immigrant to be elected to the State Assembly.
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 were held in France on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly of the Fifth 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. The governing Ensemble coalition remained the largest bloc in the National Assembly but substantially lost its ruling majority,resulting in the formation of France's first minority government since 1993.
