Charente-Maritime is a département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region on the southwestern coast of France. Named after the river Charente,its prefecture is La Rochelle. As of 2019,it had a population of 651,358 with an area of 6,864 square kilometres.
Ségolène Royal is a French politician who was the Socialist Party candidate for the presidency of France in the 2007 election.
The Radical Party of the Left is a social-liberal political party in France. A party in the Radical tradition,since 1972 the PRG has been a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France,the Socialist Party. After the 2017 presidential and legislative elections,negotiations to merge the PRG with the Radical Party began and the refounding congress to reunite the parties into the Radical Movement was held on 9 and 10 December 2017. However,a faction of ex-PRG members,including its last president Sylvia Pinel,split from the Radical Movement in February 2019 due to its expected alliance with La République En Marche in the European elections and resurrected the PRG.
Delphine Batho is a French politician of Ecology Generation who has been serving as member of the National Assembly. She is a former Minister of Ecology,Sustainable Development and Energy. As a candidate in the 2021 ecologist primary,she came in third place with 22.32% of the vote,advocating degrowth. She was re-elected as a member of parliament in the 2022 legislative elections.
Maxime Bono is a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party. He has been mayor of La Rochelle from April 1999 to April 2014,president of the Agglomeration community of La Rochelle from January 2000 to April 2014 and an MP of the Charente-Maritime's 1st constituency from April 1999 until June 2012. During his two mandates,he was a member of the Socialist,Radical,Citizen and Miscellaneous Left parliamentary group.
The Socialist Party presidential primary of 2006 was the selection process by which members of the Socialist Party of France chose their candidate for the 2007 French presidential election. In a nationwide vote on 16 November 2006,members of the party chose the regional president of Poitou-Charentes,Ségolène Royal. This historic vote made Royal the first woman to be nominated by a major party for the office of President of France.
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 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary was the first open primary of the French Socialist Party and Radical Party of the Left for selecting their candidate for the 2012 presidential election. The filing deadline for primary nomination papers was fixed at 13 July 2011 and six candidates competed in the first round of the vote. On election day,9 October 2011,no candidate won 50 percent of the vote,and the two candidates with the most votes contested a runoff election on 16 October 2011. François Hollande ultimately won the primary,defeating Martine Aubry.
The 1st constituency of Charente-Maritime is one of five electoral districts in the department of the same name,each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system,with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
The Communautéd'agglomération de La Rochelle is the communautéd'agglomération,an intercommunal structure,centred on the city of La Rochelle. It is located in the Charente-Maritime department,in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region,South West France. Its area is 327.0 km2. Its population was 171,811 in 2018,of which 76,114 in La Rochelle proper.
Fountaine-Pajot is a major French maritime construction company specialising in catamarans both for private leisure,cruising and offshore chartering. The company was founded in 1976 by Jean François Fountaine and Yves Pajot,in the town of Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis,in Charente-Maritime. It also now has a factory at La Rochelle.
Valérie Trierweiler is a French journalist and author. She has hosted political talk shows and has contributed to Paris Match. She is best known for having been the companion of the president of France,François Hollande,until January 2014.
The Socialist Party is a centre-left to left-wing political party in France. It holds social-democratic and 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 under the Fifth Republic,along with the Rally for the Republic in the late 20th century,and with the Union for a Popular Movement in the early 2000s. It is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists,Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
The French Socialist Party held a two-round presidential primary to select a candidate for the 2017 presidential election on 22 and 29 January 2017. It was the second open primary held by the center-left coalition,after the primary in 2011 in which François Hollande defeated Martine Aubry to become the Socialist nominee. Hollande went on to defeat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential election. However,because of his low approval rating,he announced that he would not seek re-election,becoming the first president of the Fifth Republic to decide not to run for a second term. The primary was contested by seven candidates,four from the Socialist Party and three representing other parties part of the left-wing electoral alliance.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of La Rochelle.
Olivier Faure is a French politician who has served as the First Secretary of the Socialist Party since 2018 and Member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne's 11th constituency since 2012. He was elected to the post of first secretary in the party's Aubervilliers Congress and re-elected in the 2021 Villeurbanne Congress. Faure was previously the head of the New Left group,the parliamentary group formed around the PS in the National Assembly,from December 2016 to April 2018.
The Aubervilliers Congress of the Socialist Party (PS) was held on 7 and 8 April 2018 near the Front Populaire station of the Paris Métro in Aubervilliers,Seine-Saint-Denis. The congress determined the political line of the party and elected Olivier Faure as the next First Secretary after the resignation of Jean-Christophe Cambadélis on 18 June 2017.
The Republican and Socialist Left is a socialist political party in France. It was founded on 3 February 2019 after the merger of the Alternative for a Republican,Ecologist and Socialist Program (APRÉS) and the Citizen and Republican Movement (MRC) of Jean-Luc Laurent and Jean-Pierre Chevènement. APRÉS had been founded in October 2018 by Emmanuel Maurel and Marie-Noëlle Lienemann after their departure from the Socialist Party and was close to La France Insoumise.
The New Ecological and Social People's Union was a left-wing electoral alliance of political parties in France. Formed on May Day 2022,the alliance included La France Insoumise (LFI),the Socialist Party (PS),the French Communist Party (PCF),The Ecologists (LE),Ensemble! (E!),and Génération.s (G.s),and their respective smaller partners. It was the first wide left-wing political alliance since the Plural Left in the 1997 French legislative election. Over 70 dissident candidates who refused the accord still ran.
Séverine Werbrouck is a French politician of the National Rally who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. She previously served in the Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and in the municipal council of Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron. In the 2007 French legislative election,she was a candidate of the Movement for France in Charente-Maritime's 4th constituency,and in the 2017 and 2022 legislative elections,she was a candidate for Charente-Maritime's 5th constituency. She is the wife of Pascal Markowsky,who was elected to the National Assembly in 2024.
