The Greens was a centre-left to left-wing green-ecologist political party in France. The Greens had been in existence since 1984,but their spiritual roots could be traced as far back as RenéDumont's candidacy for the presidency in 1974. On 13 November 2010,The Greens merged with Europe Ecology to become Europe Ecology –The Greens.
The French Communist Party is a communist party in France. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left,and its MEPs sit with The Left in the European Parliament –GUE/NGL group.
Heidi Anneli Hautala is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. She is a member of the Green League,part of the European Green Party.
Véronique Marie Alice Henriette De Keyser is a Belgian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2001 until 2014. She is a member of the Parti Socialiste,part of the Socialist Group
Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie,known in France as MAM,is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Republicans,part of the European People's Party. A member of all right-wing governments formed in the 1980s,1990s and 2000s,she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense (2002–2007),the Interior (2007–2009) and Foreign Affairs (2010–2011);she has also been in charge of Youth and Sports (1993–1995) and Justice (2009–2010),and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices.
Marie-George Buffet is a French politician. She was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 2001 to 2010. She joined the Party in 1969,and she served in the government as Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports from 4 June 1997 to 5 May 2002. Buffet was re-elected on 16 June 2002 to another five-year term in the National Assembly as a representative of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Dominique Voynet is a French politician who is a member of Europe Écologie–The Greens. She is the former mayor of Montreuil and was a French senator for the département of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Élisabeth Guigou is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2002 until 2017,representing Seine-Saint-Denis' 9th constituency.
Presidential elections were held in France on 21 and 22 April 2007 to elect the successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France for a five-year term. As no candidate received a majority of the vote,a second round was held on 5 and 6 May 2007 between the two leading candidates,Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal. Sarkozy was elected with 53% of the vote.
Marie Arena is a Belgian politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2014. She is a member of the Socialist Party (PS),part of the Party of European Socialists (PES).
Cécile Duflot is a French non-governmental organisation (NGO) leader and former politician. She has been a government minister and political party leader.
The Left Front was a French electoral alliance and a political movement created for the 2009 European elections by the French Communist Party and the Left Party when a left-wing minority faction decided to leave the Socialist Party,and the Unitary Left,a group which left the New Anticapitalist Party. The alliance was subsequently extended for the 2010 regional elections and the 2012 presidential election and the subsequent parliamentary election.
Sylvie Guillaume is a French politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2024. She is a member of the Socialist Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Legislative elections were held in France on 10 and 17 June 2012 to select the members of the 14th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic,a little over a month after the presidential election run-off held on 6 May.
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.
Eliska Vincent was a Utopian socialist and militant feminist in France. She argued that women had lost civil rights that existed in the Middle Ages,and these should be restored. In the late 1880s and 1890s she was one of the most influential of the Parisian feminists. She created extensive archives on the feminist movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries,but these have been lost.
Manon Aubry is a French politician who represents the left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI). A former advocacy officer for Oxfam France,she won a seat in the 2019 European Parliament election and the same year was elected co-chair with Martin Schirdewan of The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) group. She retained her seat following the 2024 European Parliament election.
Jean-Pierre Dubois is a French lawyer and leftist activist. He was president of the Human Rights League (France) (LDH). He has been Honorary President of the league since June 2011.
Irène Tolleret is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
Aurélie Trouvé is a French politician and anti-globalization activist. She was co-president of the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action (Attac) from 2006 to 2012,then spokesperson for the association from 2016 to 2021.
