The Radical Party of the Left is a social-liberal political party in France. A party in the Radical tradition,since 1972 the PRG has been a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France,the Socialist Party. After the 2017 presidential and legislative elections,negotiations to merge the PRG with the Radical Party began and the refounding congress to reunite the parties into the Radical Movement was held on 9 and 10 December 2017. However,a faction of ex-PRG members,including its last president Sylvia Pinel,split from the Radical Movement in February 2019 due to its expected alliance with La République En Marche in the European elections and resurrected the PRG.
The Socialist Party of Senegal is a political party in Senegal. It was the ruling party in Senegal from independence in 1960 until 2000. In 2000,the party's candidate and previous incumbent president,Abdou Diof,was defeated by the leader of the Senegalese Democratic Party,Abdoulaye Wade.
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.
Marie-Huguette Antoinette Bello is a French politician and teacher from Réunion who has served as president of the Regional Council of Réunion since 2021. Bello is the founder of the left-wing For Réunion political party,having previously been a member of the Communist Party of Réunion until the foundation of For Réunion in 2012.
The Democratic and Republican Left group is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of the French Communist Party (PCF) as well as leftist parties with bases in Overseas France.
Sylvia Pinel is a French politician who served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 2016 to 2022,representing the 2nd constituency in the Tarn-et-Garonne department. Since 3 September 2016,she has been the leader of the moderate and social-liberal centre-left Radical Party of the Left.
The 11th constituency of the Pas-de-Calais is a French legislative constituency in the Pas-de-Calais département. It elects one député to the National Assembly. It has been represented by Marine Le Pen since 2017.
Legislative elections were held in France on 10 and 17 June 2012 to select the members of the 14th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic,a little over a month after the presidential election run-off held on 6 May.
Legislative constituencies for French people domiciled outside France are eleven constituencies,returning one member each to the French National Assembly,elected by French people living outside France. As of 2024,the constituencies represent almost 1.7 million French voters in total.
The third constituency for French residents overseas is one of eleven constituencies representing French citizens living abroad. It was created by the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies and elects,since 2012,one representative to the National Assembly.
The Ecologists –Europe Ecology The Greens,commonly known as The Ecologists and formerly as Europe Ecology The Greens until 2023,is a centre-left to left-wing green political party in France. The party is a member of the European Green Party. It was formed on 13 November 2010 from the merger of The Greens and Europe Ecology.
The 2014 French senate election was held on 28 September 2014 and featured results which saw the senate being reclaimed by the centre-right party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). The right-wing conservative victory reversed the results which came during the previous 2011 French senate election,which was the first time since the foundation of the Fifth Republic in 1958 that the upper house of the French government had been won by a majority of left-wing candidates. Following the victory of the UMP,Gérard Larcher was nominated and subsequently elected to the position of president of the senate,taking the place of Jean-Pierre Bel who had served in the position following the Socialist Party's senate victory in 2011. The Far-right National Front party also claimed its first two seats in the senate election,which their leader Marine Le Pen described as "a historic victory".
Axelle Lemaire is a French former Socialist politician who served as a Deputy for the Third constituency for French overseas residents in the National Assembly of the French Parliament,for which she was elected in 2012.
The Socialist Party is a centre-left to left-wing political party in France. It holds social-democratic and pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major political parties under the Fifth Republic,along with the Rally for the Republic in the late 20th century,and with the Union for a Popular Movement in the early 2000s. It is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists,Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
Regional elections were held in France on 6 and 13 December 2015. At stake were the regional councils in metropolitan and overseas France including the Corsican Assembly and inaugural seats in the Assembly of French Guiana and Assembly of Martinique,all for a six-year term. The Departmental Council of Mayotte,which also exercises the powers of a region,was the only region not participating in this election,having already been renewed on 2 April 2015. There were 18 regional presidencies at stake,with 13 in mainland France and Corsica,as well as 5 overseas. Though they do not have legislative autonomy,these territorial collectivities manage sizable budgets. Moreover,regional elections are often taken as a mid-term opinion poll.
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.
The 12th constituency of the Gironde is a French legislative constituency in the Gironde département. Like the other 576 French constituencies,it elects one MP using the two-round system,with a run-off if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.
The 2nd constituency of Vendée is a French legislative constituency in the Vendée département. It elects one MP to the National Assembly of France.
Pierre-Yves Bournazel is a French politician who represented the 18th constituency of Paris in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022. He has been a member of Horizons since 2021,which he joined after leaving The Republicans (LR) in 2017. Bournazel has also held a seat on the Council of Paris since 2008.
Karine Daniel,born 22 June 1974 in Nantes,is a French politician and economist. She was the deputy for Loire-Atlantique's 3rd constituency in the National Assembly of France from 2016 to 2017.
