Benoît Hamon is a French politician known for his former role within the Socialist Party (PS) and Party of European Socialists (PES) and his political party Génération.s.
Michel Sapin is a French politician who served as Minister of Finance from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2014 to 2017. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
Valérie Fourneyron is a former French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as chair of the board of the International Testing Agency (ITA) since 2017. She previously served as Junior Minister for Crafts,Trade,Tourism and Social Economy in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls from 2014 until 2017. She was also a member of the National Assembly and the Mayor of Rouen.
Yannick Jadot is a French environmental activist and politician who ran for President of France in 2022,placing sixth with 4.6% of the vote. A member of The Ecologists (LÉ),he was elected to represent Paris in the Senate in 2023.
Presidential elections were held in France on 23 April and 7 May 2017. As no candidate won a majority in the first round,a runoff was held between the top two candidates,Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! (EM) and Marine Le Pen of the National Front (FN),which Macron won with a difference of more than 30% of the vote. The presidential election was followed by a legislative election to elect members of the National Assembly on 11 and 18 June. Incumbent president François Hollande of the Socialist Party (PS) was eligible to run for a second term,but declared on 1 December 2016 that he would not seek reelection in light of low approval ratings,making him the first incumbent head of state of the Fifth Republic not to seek reelection.
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.
Nathalie Appéré is a French politician who has served as the president of Rennes Métropole since 2020 and the mayor of Rennes since 2014. She is a member of the Socialist Party (PS).
The French Socialist Party held a two-round presidential primary to select a candidate for the 2017 presidential election on 22 and 29 January 2017. It was the second open primary held by the center-left coalition,after the primary in 2011 in which François Hollande defeated Martine Aubry to become the Socialist nominee. Hollande went on to defeat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential election. However,because of his low approval rating,he announced that he would not seek re-election,becoming the first president of the Fifth Republic to decide not to run for a second term. The primary was contested by seven candidates,four from the Socialist Party and three representing other parties part of the left-wing electoral alliance.
La France Insoumise is a left-wing 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. The party utilises the lower case Greek letter phi as its logotype.
Éric Alauzet is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly from the 2012 elections to 2024,representing the 2nd constituency of the department of Doubs.
Stéphane Travert is a French politician who has served as member of the National Assembly for Manche's 3rd constituency since 2018 and previously from 2012 to 2017.
Génération·s sometimes rendered Génération-s or Génération·s,is a French political party created on 1 July 2017 by Benoît Hamon who,according to its founder,aims to "refound and gather the left" in France. It was formerly named Mouvement du 1er Juillet,and has also been known by the short name M1717. Its foundation followed the sharp decline of the Socialist Party in the 2017 presidential election,in which Hamon was the Socialist nominee,and the legislative elections,in which he lost his seat as deputy. The movement presents itself as an initiative to assemble the forces of the left in France.
European Parliament elections were held in France on 26 May 2019,electing members of the 9th French delegation to the European Parliament as part of the elections held across the European Union. The election featured two major changes since the 2014 election:the return to a single national constituency and the increase in the number of French seats from 74 to 79 upon the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Officially,79 MEPs were considered to have been elected,including five "virtual" MEPs who did not take their seats until the UK formally left the EU. The election featured 34 separate electoral lists,a record number at the national level.
The Aubervilliers Congress of the Socialist Party (PS) was held on 7 and 8 April 2018 near the Front Populaire station of the Paris Métro in Aubervilliers,Seine-Saint-Denis. The congress determined the political line of the party and elected Olivier Faure as the next First Secretary after the resignation of Jean-Christophe Cambadélis on 18 June 2017.
Mounir Satouri is a French politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
Sarah Soilihi is a French athlete,politician,and political spokesperson. A victory at the World Traditional Kickboxing Association in 2015 made her a competitive kick-boxing champion,and the following year she was a French national champion in semi-contact karate. Beginning in 2012 she was an active member of the French Socialist Party,and she ran on socialist party lists in elections in 2014 and 2015 but did not obtain a seat. During the 2017 French presidential election,she was the main spokesperson for Jean-Luc Mélenchon as he led the new party La France Insoumise. In late 2018,she left La France Insoumise for the left unity party Génération.s,and in 2019 she affiliated herself with the movement Pôle radical et écologiste.
The New Ecological and Social People's Union was a left-wing electoral alliance of political parties in France. Formed on May Day 2022,the alliance included La France Insoumise (LFI),the Socialist Party (PS),the French Communist Party (PCF),The Ecologists (LE),Ensemble! (E!),and Génération.s (G.s),and their respective smaller partners. It was the first wide left-wing political alliance since the Plural Left in the 1997 French legislative election. Over 70 dissident candidates who refused the accord still ran.
Ecologist Pole is a French green political coalition launched in August 2020. This alliance followed the 2020 municipal elections,in which several large cities were won by lists led by green candidates.
Mélanie Thomin is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who was elected a Deputy for Finistère's 6th constituency under the NUPES party label during the 2022 French legislative election.
Social-ecology is a political movement that seeks to "link social and ecological issues". Theorized by Éloi Laurent,it has mainly been used in France by the Socialist Party (SP).
