François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995,the longest holder of that position in the history of France. As First Secretary of the Socialist Party,he was the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth Republic.
Lionel Robert Jospin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
The prime minister of France,officially the prime minister of the French Republic,is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers.
Édith Cresson is a French politician from the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992,the first woman to do so and only woman until Élisabeth Borne's appointment in 2022. Her political career ended in scandal as a result of corruption charges dating from her tenure as European Commissioner for Research,Science and Technology.
Laurent Fabius is a French politician serving as President of the Constitutional Council since 8 March 2016. A member of the Socialist Party,he previously served as Prime Minister of France from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. Fabius was 37 years old when he was appointed and is,so far,the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic.
Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party,he headed a government supported by a coalition of Gaullists (RPF),moderate socialists (UDSR),Christian democrats (MRP) and liberal-conservatives (CNIP). His main priority was ending the Indochina War,which had already cost 92,000 lives,with 114,000 wounded and 28,000 captured on the French side. Public opinion polls showed that,in February 1954,only 7% of the French people wanted to continue the fight to regain Indochina out of the hands of the Communists,led by Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh movement. At the 1954 Geneva Conference,Mendès France negotiated a deal that gave the Viet Minh control of Vietnam north of the seventeenth parallel,and allowed him to pull out all French forces. He is considered one of the most prominent statesmen of the French Fourth Republic.
Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under President François Mitterrand from 2 April 1992 to 29 March 1993. He was a member of the Socialist Party and Member of Parliament for Nièvre's 1st constituency.
Roland Dumas is a French lawyer and Socialist politician who served as Foreign Minister under President François Mitterrand from 1984 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993. He was also President of the Constitutional Council from 1995 to 1999.
Jean-Pierre Chevènement is a French politician who served as a minister in the 1980s and 1990s best known for his candidacy in the 2002 French presidential election. After serving as mayor of Belfort,he was elected to the Senate for the Territoire de Belfort in 2008. As a cofounder of the PS and founder of the Republican and Citizen Movement (MRC),he is a significant figure of the French left.
Pierre Joxe,KBE is a former French Socialist politician and has been a member of the Constitutional Council of France between 2001 and 2010.
AndréVallini is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the Senate since 2017.
Gaston Defferre was a French Socialist politician. He served as mayor of Marseille for 33 years until his death in 1986. He was minister for overseas territories in Guy Mollet’s socialist government in 1956–1957. His main achievement was to establish the framework used to grant independence to France’s African territories. As the Socialist candidate for president in 1969,he received only 5 percent of the vote. He was much more successful in promoting François Mitterrand as leader of the Socialist Party in 1971. He held a series of ministerial portfolios after the Socialist victory in 1981,especially as minister of state for the interior and decentralization.
Henri Emmanuelli was a French politician. A member of the French Socialist Party,he was deputy for Landes from 1978 to 1981,from 1986 to 1997,and from 2000 to 2017.
Legislative elections were held in France on 21 and 28 March 1993,to elect the tenth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.
French legislative elections took place on 14 June and 21 June 1981 to elect the seventh National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.
Alain Savary was a French Socialist politician,deputy to the National Assembly of France during the Fourth and Fifth Republic,chairman of the Socialist Party (PS) and a government minister in the 1950s and in 1981–1984,when he was appointed by President François Mitterrand as Minister of National Education.
Jean-Pierre Soisson is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement. He was a deputy in the National Assembly of France for the first district of Yonne for several terms between 1968 and 2012;mayor of Auxerre from 1971 to 1998;President of the Regional Council of Burgundy;and national minister of youth,labour,public administration and agriculture.
Bernard Lesterlin is a French civil servant and former member of the National Assembly. He has served as the Administrator Superior of Wallis and Futuna (1985–1986). He represented the 2nd constituency of the Allier department from 2007 to 2017,and is a member of the Socialist Party. He was part of Ségolène Royal's political advisory team.
Jean-Louis Bianco is a French politician and civil servant who served as Minister of Social Affairs and Integration from 1991 to 1992 and Minister of Equipment,Transport and Housing from 1992 to 1993 under President François Mitterrand. A member of the Socialist Party (PS),he was later elected to the National Assembly in 1997,where he represented the 1st constituency of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence for three terms. Bianco also held a number of local elective mandates at the municipal,departmental and regional level from 1992 to 2012.
The Socialist Party is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. It holds 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 in the French Fifth Republic,along with The Republicans. It replaced the earlier French Section of the Workers' International in 1969 and is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists,Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
