Réunion is an overseas département of France.
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.
The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada,Gemeinden in Germany,comuni in Italy,or municipios in Spain. The UK equivalent are civil parishes. Communes are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The communes are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France.
A territorial collectivity,or territorial authority,in many francophone countries,is a legal entity governed by public law that exercises within its territory certain powers devolved to it by the State as part of a decentralization process. In France,it also refers to a chartered administrative division of France with recognized governing authority. It is the generic name for any territory with an elective form of local government and local regulatory authority. The nature of a French territorial collectivity is set forth in Article 72 of the Constitution of France (1958),which provides for local autonomy within limits prescribed by law.
France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with a bicameral legislature. Public officials in the legislative and executive branches are either elected by the citizens or appointed by elected officials. Referenda may also be called to consult the French citizenry directly on a particular question,especially one which concerns amendment to the Constitution.
Lamanon is a commune located in the Bouches-du-Rhône department,part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southern France. Its inhabitants are called Lamanonais in French.
Jean-Claude Gaudin was a French politician for The Republicans. He served as the Mayor of Marseille from 1995 to 2020.
The Council of Paris is the deliberative body responsible for governing Paris,the capital of France. It possesses both the powers of a municipal council and those of a departmental council for the département de Paris,as defined by the so-called PLM Law of 1982 that redefined the governance of Paris,Lyon and Marseille. Paris is the only territorial collectivity in France to be both a commune and a département.
The municipal police are the local police of towns and cities in France. There are 24,000 municipal police officers in 4,555 communities. The municipal police are one of the three components of French policing,alongside the National Police and the National Gendarmerie,with about 145,000 police and 98,000 soldiers respectively.
Brie is a commune in the department of Aisne in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
In France,the versement transport is a hypothecated urban regional payroll tax levied on the total gross salaries of all employees of companies of more than 11 employees,originally intended to raise capital for investment in local public transport infrastructure,but more and more used to cover its operating expenses. The tax is levied on the employer,not the employee directly. The money is directed to the autoritéorganisatrice de transport urbain,the local government authority responsible for organising public transport.
Municipal elections in France allow the people to elect members of the City Council in each commune. These are called conseillers municipaux. They elect the mayor,who chairs the city council,as well as Deputies to the Mayor. The term of office of councilors,the mayor and his deputies is,in principle,six years.
In France,a municipal council is an elected body of the commune responsible for "executing,in its deliberations,the business of the town" (translated).
In France,a mayor is chairperson of the municipal council,which organises the work and deliberates on municipal matters. The mayor also has significant powers and their own responsibilities,such as the responsibility for the activities of municipal police and for the management of municipal staff.
Senators in France are elected by indirect universal suffrage,by a panel of "electors". Half of the Senate seats are up for election every three years;the term of office is six years.
In French law,the ministère public or le parquet is the authority charged with defending the interests of society and of the application of law. It is primarily made up of magistrates,but is sometimes represented by other persons such as police officials. Its magistrates can be referred to as "standing" magistrates,as opposed to magistrats du siège. Its closest equivalent in some English-speaking countries is the director of public prosecutions and the attorney general in others.
The Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the deliberative assembly of the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The regional council is made up of 183 regional councilors elected for 6 years and is chaired by Alain Rousset.
The Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur is the deliberative assembly of the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The regional council is made up of 123 regional councillors elected for 6 years by direct universal suffrage. It has been chaired by Renaud Muselier,formerly of The Republicans,since 2017.
In French public law,the public domain is all property belonging to the State,local authorities,public establishments or other public bodies,and assigned to a public purpose.
Conseil d'arrondissement can have different meanings depending on the country.
