The Territoire de Belfort is a department in the northeastern French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. In 2020 it had a population of 140,120. The department,which encompasses a relatively small surface area of 609.4 km2,is located just southwest of the European Collectivity of Alsace. It also shares a border with the Swiss canton of Jura to the southeast. Its prefecture is Belfort.
The Citizen and Republican Movement is a political party in France. The party replaced in 2002 the Citizens' Movement founded by Jean-Pierre Chevènement,who left the Socialist Party (PS) in 1993 due to his opposition to the Gulf War and to the Maastricht Treaty. It is a Eurosceptic party with leftist aspirations.
Raymond Forni was a French Socialist politician.
Bertrand Pancher is a French politician of the Radical Party (Rad) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since the 2007 elections,representing the Meuse department.
Christophe Bouillon was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2020. He represented Seine-Maritime's 5th constituency as a member of the Socialist,Radical,Citizen and Miscellaneous Left. From 2015 to 2018 he was chairman of the board of ANDRA,the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency.
Damien Meslot is a French politician and a member of The Republicans. He represented Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2017,and has served as the mayor of Belfort since 2014.
Frédéric Reiss is a French teacher and politician of the Republicans who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since the 2002 elections,representing the Bas-Rhin department. On the local level,he is the mayor of Niederbronn-les-Bains,Bas-Rhin.
Jean-Michel Clément is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since the 2007 elections,representing the 3rd constituency of the Vienne department. He is a former member of La République En Marche! (LREM) and of the Socialist Party.
Jean-Michel Villaumé was a member of the National Assembly of France,representing Haute-Saône's 2nd constituency from 2007 to 2017,as a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche group.
Joël Giraud is a French politician who briefly served as Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities under Prime Minister Jean Castex in 2022. A member of both Renaissance (RE) and the Radical Movement (MR),he previously represented the 2nd constituency of the Hautes-Alpes department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2020 and served as Secretary of State for Rurality from 2020 until 2022.
Olivier Dussopt is a French politician who served as minister of labour,employment and integration in the government of prime minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2024. He previously served as minister of public action and accounts in the governments of successive prime ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex from 2019 to 2022. Dussopt was a member of the National Assembly for Ardèche from 2007 to 2017,and again in 2022 and 2024.
Sylvia Pinel is a French politician who served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 2016 to 2022,representing the 2nd constituency in the Tarn-et-Garonne department. Since 3 September 2016,she has been the leader of the moderate and social-liberal centre-left Radical Party of the Left.
Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency is one of two French legislative constituencies in the department of Territoire de Belfort. It is currently represented by Ian Boucard of The Republicans (LR).
Paul Molac is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2012 elections,representing Morbihan's 4th constituency. In the 2017 elections,he was one of only four deputies who were elected in the first round.
The first round of a by-election was held in Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency on 28 January 2018,with a second round on 4 February because no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was called due to the invalidation of the election of Ian Boucard,candidate of The Republicans (LR),in the June 2017 legislative elections by the Constitutional Council on 8 December 2017,due to the distribution of misleading electoral leaflets by Boucard's campaign between the two rounds.
Ian Boucard is a French politician who has represented the 1st constituency of the Territoire de Belfort department in the National Assembly since February 2018,previously holding the seat from June to December 2017. A member of The Republicans (LR),the Constitutional Council nullified his first election,a decision that triggered a by-election in early 2018 in which he was reelected.
Patrick Hetzel is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who has been a member of the National Assembly since 2012. He represents Bas-Rhin's 7th constituency.
Francis Chouat is a French historian and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the National Assembly after winning a by-election in 2018,representing Essonne's 1st constituency.
Cédric Perrin is a French politician who has represented the Territoire de Belfort in the Senate since 2014. He is a member of The Republicans (LR),formerly the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Since 26 October 2023,he has presided over the bicameral Délégation parlementaire au renseignement,which supervises France's three main intelligence agencies.
Gilberte Céline Marin-Moskovitz was a French Socialist Party politician who served as deputy of Territoire de Belfort's 2nd constituency in the National Assembly from 1988 to 1991 and again from 1997 to 2000. She was also elected a councillor to the Belfort Municipal City Council in 1977 and was a four-term General Councillor of the canton of Belfort-Sud between 1982 and 2008. Marin-Moskovitz was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1996.
