François RenéJean Lucien Bayrou is a French politician who has presided over the Democratic Movement (MoDem) since he founded it in 2007. A centrist,he was a candidate in the 2002,2007 and 2012 presidential elections. He has also presided over the European Democratic Party (EDP) since 2004.
Christian Paul Gilbert Estrosi is a French sportsman and politician who has served as Mayor of Nice since 2017,previously holding the office from 2008 to 2016. A former professional motorcyclist,he served as a government minister under Presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. Estrosi also served as President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur from 2015 to 2017 and First Deputy Mayor of Nice from 2016 until 2017. He is a former member of The Republicans,which he left in 2021 to join Horizons.
Jean Lassalle is a French politician who has represented the 4th constituency of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the National Assembly since 2002. A former member of the Democratic Movement (MoDem),he was a candidate in the 2017 presidential election,in which he received 435,301 votes (1.21%). Lassalle ran under the banner of Résistons! (RES),a party he founded and has led since he left the MoDem in 2016. In the 2022 presidential election he received 1.3 million votes constituting over 3% of those cast.
Christiane Marie Taubira is a French politician who served as Minister of Justice of France in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean-Marc Ayrault and Manuel Valls under President François Hollande from 2012 until 2016. She was a member of the National Assembly of France for French Guiana from 1993 to 2012 and member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999.
François Claude Pierre RenéBaroin is a French politician and lawyer who served as Finance Minister from 2011 to 2012,following a stint as Budget Minister in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon. A member of The Republicans (LR),he was a long-time ally of Jacques Chirac and has been Mayor of Troyes in Champagne since 1995.
Éric Woerth is a French politician of The Republicans (LR).
Laurent Timothée Marie Wauquiez is a French politician who has presided over the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes since 2016. He is a member of The Republicans (LR),which he led from 2017 to 2019 following the resignation of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Catherine Vautrin is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who served as a member of the National Assembly of France,representing the Marne department.
Franck Riester is a French politician who has been serving as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex and Élisabeth Borne since 2020. A former member of The Republicans,he founded and currently leads the centre-right Agir party.
Frédéric Lefebvre is a French politician who served as Secretary of State for Trade,Small and Medium Enterprises,Tourism,Services,Liberal professions and Consumption under the Minister of Economy,Finance and Industry,François Baroin,in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon. From 2008 to 2009 and from 2013 until 2017,he was a member of the National Assembly,representing the Hauts-de-Seine department. He is also the founder of l'Ame Nord,a non-profit organization dedicated to serve the interests of French residents living in the US and Canada.
Nora Berra is a French physician and politician who served as Secretary of State for Seniors (2009-2010) and as Secretary of State for Health (2010-2012) in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 14 November 2010 to 10 May 2012. From 2015 until 2017,she was a member of the Republicans.
The 2017 French presidential election was held 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 by a decisive margin. 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.
United Republic is a centre-right political party in France launched by Dominique de Villepin,a former Prime Minister,on 18 June 2010.
The Fourth constituency for French residents overseas is one of eleven constituencies each electing one representative of French citizens overseas to the French National Assembly.
The Republicans is a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in France,largely inspired by the Gaullist tradition. It holds pro-European views.
Legislative elections in France were held 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.
La République En Marche !,sometimes called simply En Marche ! as its original name,is a liberal political party in France. On 5 May 2022,the party changed its name to Renaissance ahead of the 2022 legislative election.
Richard Ferrand is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as President of the National Assembly from 2018 to 2022. He had served as a member of the National Assembly for Finistère's 6th constituency from 2012 to 2022. A longtime member of the Socialist Party,he was the General Secretary LREM from October 2016 and became the leader of the party's group of the National Assembly in June 2017.
Christophe Castaner is a French politician who served as Minister of the Interior from 16 October 2018 to 6 July 2020. He previously served as Executive Officer of La République En Marche! and Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament from 2017 to 2018. Castaner also served as Spokesperson of the Government under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in 2017. He was spokesperson for Emmanuel Macron during his campaign for the presidential election of 2017.
Aurore Bergé is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 10th constituency of Yvelines since 2017. A former member of The Republicans (LR),which she left to join La République En Marche! (LREM) in 2017,she is considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron. Since 2022,she has been leading the party's group in the National Assembly.
