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Guadeloupe is not a separate territory but an overseas region of France. France has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
Most of the French political parties are active in Guadeloupe.
In addition there are a number of regional parties:
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Guadeloupe is an overseas department of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and two Îles des Saintes—as well as many uninhabited islands and outcroppings. It is south of Antigua and Barbuda and Montserrat and north of Dominica. The capital city is Basse-Terre, on the southern west coast of Basse-Terre Island; the most populous city is Les Abymes and the main centre of business is neighbouring Pointe-à-Pitre, both on Grande-Terre Island. It had a population of 378,561 in 2024.
Lutte Ouvrière is a Trotskyist communist party in France, named after its weekly paper. Arlette Laguiller has been the party's spokeswoman since 1973 and ran in each presidential election until 2012, when Nathalie Arthaud was the candidate. Robert Barcia (Hardy) was its founder and central leader. Lutte Ouvrière is a member of the Internationalist Communist Union. It emphasises workplace activity and has been critical of such recent phenomena as alter-globalization.
Guadeloupe, an overseas region and department of France located in the Caribbean, has no flag with official status other than the French national flag.
The Guadeloupe Communist Party is a political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. The party publishes the newspaper Etincelle.
The Guadeloupean Objective is a political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. It was founded on 18 March 2000 by Lucette Michaux-Chevry, the then-president of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe, and Guadeloupe MP Philippe Chaulet.
The Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe is a democratic socialist political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. It was founded by former members of the Guadeloupe Communist Party in 1991, following the fall of communism.
Confédération générale du travail de Guadeloupe is a trade union centre in Guadeloupe. CGTG was founded in 1962, as the Guadeloupean federation of the French Confédération générale du travail became an independent centre. CGTG is particularly strong amongst banana plantation workers and in the Basse-Terre area.
Élie Domota is a trade union leader from Guadeloupe, spokesman of Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon or LKP and general secretary of the UGTG, the main trade union in Guadeloupe. He was the leading figure in the general strike in Guadeloupe which started on January 20, 2009.
Livio Nabab is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for French Championnat National 2 side US Granville.
Gerty Archimède was a politician from Guadeloupe who served in the French National Assembly from 1946-1951. She was the first female lawyer to pass the Guadeloupe Bar and the second black woman elected to the French National Assembly, shortly after Eugénie Éboué-Tell.
Élie Bloncourt was a French politician who represented the department of Aisne in the French National Assembly from 1936 to 1946. He was blinded by a shrapnel blast in the First World War and was part of the French resistance movement in World War II. He had a degree in philosophy and worked as a high school teacher, while also being involved in organizational works relating to veterans' affairs, pacifism and politics.
The Republicans is a liberal-conservative political party in France, largely inspired by the tradition of Gaullism. The party was formed on 30 May 2015 as the re-incorporation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), which had been established in 2002 under the leadership of then President of France Jacques Chirac.
Sylviane Telchid was a Guadeloupean writer, translator and professor of French and Antillean Creole.
Anthony Kevin Baron is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back and a centre-back for Swiss Super League club Servette. Born in Metropolitan France, he plays for the Guadeloupe national team.
The People's Union for the Liberation of Guadeloupe is a far-left political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. The UPLG advocates for the independence of the Guadeloupe from France.
Annick Danièle Petrus is a French Saint Martinois educator and politician. She has served as the Senator for the Collectivity of Saint Martin since October 2020 as a member of the Union for Democracy and The Republicans (LR) parties. Petrus is the first woman to represent Saint Martin's lone seat in the French Senate. Additionally, she has served in the Territorial Council of Saint Martin since 2017.
Simon Ibo, also known as Ibo Simon, was a French actor, singer, and politician of the far-right.
