Christian Paul Gilbert Estrosi is a French sportsman and politician and the 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.
Marianne is a weekly Paris-based French news magazine founded in 1997 by Jean-François Kahn and Maurice Szafran.
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.
Valérie Anne Émilie Pécresse is a French politician who has been the President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2015. A member of The Republicans,she previously served as Minister of Higher Education and Research from 2007 to 2011 and Minister of the Budget and Government Spokeswoman from 2011 to 2012 under Prime Minister François Fillon. Pécresse represented the 2nd constituency of Yvelines in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 and again from 2012 until 2016.
Roger Karoutchi is a French teacher and politician who has been serving as the first Vice President of the French Senate since 2020. He previously served as the French Ambassador to the OECD and as Secretary of State to the French Prime Minister,with responsibility for Relations with Parliament.
Laurent Timothée Marie Wauquiez is a French politician who has presided over the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes from 2016 to 2024. He is a member of The Republicans (LR),which he led from 2017 to 2019 following the resignation of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Daniel Fasquelle is a French politician of The Republicans (LR) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2020,representing the Pas-de-Calais department.
Franck Alix Georges Riester is a French politician who most recently served as Minister Delegate for Parliamentary Relations in the Government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2024. He previously served as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex and Élisabeth Borne between 2020 and 2022. A former member of The Republicans,he founded and currently leads the centre-right Agir party.
Éric Ciotti is a French politician who led The Republicans (LR) from 2022 to 2024. He has represented Alpes-Maritimes's 1st constituency in the National Assembly since the 2007 legislative election. Once a member of The Republicans' right-wing,he was seeking to distance the party from Emmanuel Macron's presidency.
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 Republicans is a liberal-conservative political party in France,largely inspired by the tradition of Gaullism. The party was formed in 2015 as the refoundation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP),which had been established in 2002 under the leadership of then-President of France,Jacques Chirac.
Guillaume Larrivé is a French politician who served as the member of the National Assembly for Yonne's 1st constituency from 2012 to 2022.
Sophie Primas is a French engineer and politician who has been serving as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade,Attractiveness and French Nationals Abroad in the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier since 2024. Formerly a member of the Union for a Popular Movement,she was a member of the Republicans (LR) from 2015 to 2024.
Presidential elections were held in France on 10 and 24 April 2022. As no candidate won a majority in the first round,a runoff was held,in which Emmanuel Macron defeated Marine Le Pen and was re-elected as President of France. Macron,from La République En Marche! (LREM),had defeated Le Pen,leader of the National Rally,once already in the 2017 French presidential election,for the term which expired on 13 May 2022. Macron became the first president of France to win a re-election bid since Jacques Chirac won in 2002.
Marine Brenier-Ohanessian is a French politician who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2016 to 2022,representing the 5th constituency of the department of Alpes-Maritimes. She is a member of two political center-right parties,Horizons and La France Audacieuse.
Olivier Marleix is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who has been representing the 2nd constituency of the Eure-et-Loir department in the National Assembly since 2012.
A leadership election for the presidency of The Republicans (LR) was held on 10 December 2017,the first since the refoundation of the party in 2015,before which it was known as the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP),and seventh overall including the UMP congresses.
Geoffroy Didier is a French lawyer and politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from December 2017 to July 2024. A member of The Republicans (LR),he has also held a seat in the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2010.
Aurélien Pradié is a French politician who has represented the 1st constituency of the Lot department in the National Assembly since 2017. He has also held a seat in the Regional Council of Occitania since 2021,previously in office from 2016 to 2018. In addition to his work in Parliament,he was appointed secretary-general of The Republicans (LR) in 2019 after Christian Jacob was elected party leader,making him its third highest-ranking politician.
Delphine Bürkli is a French politician.
