Lionel Robert Jospin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
Presidential elections were held in France on 21 April 2002,with a runoff election between the top two candidates,incumbent Jacques Chirac of the Rally for the Republic and Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front,on 5 May. This presidential contest attracted a greater than usual amount of international attention because of far-right candidate Le Pen's unexpected appearance in the runoff election.
Michel Rocard was a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991 during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI),a social minimum welfare program for indigents,and achieved the Matignon Accords regarding the status of New Caledonia. He was a member of the European Parliament,and was strongly involved in European policies until 2009. In 2007,he joined a Commission under the authority of Nicolas Sarkozy's Minister of Education,Xavier Darcos.
Alain Marie Juppé is a French politician. A member of The Republicans,he was Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac,during which period he faced major strikes that paralysed the country and became very unpopular. He left office after the victory of the left in the snap 1997 legislative elections. He had previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995,and as Minister of the Budget and Spokesman for the Government from 1986 to 1988. He was president of the political party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) from 2002 to 2004 and mayor of Bordeaux from 2006 to 2019.
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.
Pierre Moscovici is a French politician who served as the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs,Taxation and Customs from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014 and as Minister for European Affairs between 1997 and 2002.
Kader Arif is a French politician of the French Socialist Party (PS) who served as Junior Minister for Veterans to the French Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian from 2012 until 2014. Prior to this,he was a Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France.
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.
Henri Emmanuelli was a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party (PS),he was a deputy for Landes from 1978 to 1981,from 1986 to 1997 and again from 2000 to 2017. He served as President of the National Assembly from 1992 to 1993 and First Secretary of the Socialist Party from 1994 to 1995.
Legislative elections were held in France on 25 May and 1 June 1997 to elect the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic. It was the consequence of President Jacques Chirac's decision to call the legislative election one year before the deadline.
The Gauche Plurielle was a left-wing coalition in France,composed of the Socialist Party,the French Communist Party,the Greens,the Left Radical Party,and the Citizens' Movement. Succeeding Alain Juppé's conservative government,the Plural Left governed France from 1997 to 2002. It was another case of cohabitation between rival parties at the head of the state and of the government. Following the failure of the left in the 2002 legislative election,it was replaced by another conservative government,this time headed by Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
Jean-Christophe Cambadélis is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as the party's First Secretary from April 2014 to June 2017. He was a member of the National Assembly of France,representing the city of Paris,as a member of the Socialist,Republican &Citizen.
Jean-Marc Germain is a French politician,member of the Socialist Party. He is the cabinet director of Martine Aubry in Socialist Party,and was elected to the European Parliament in 2024. Germain is also the husband of Anne Hidalgo,mayor of Paris.
Jean Peyrelevade is a senior French center-left politician and business leader.
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 replaced the earlier French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in 1969 and is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists,Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
Terra Nova is a French independent think tank or "Progressive Foundation" considered close to the French Socialist Party,and later to the French President,Emmanuel Macron. It produces reports and analyses of current political issues and aims to contribute to public debate by formulating progressive policy solutions. Through its work it also seeks to contribute to the renewal of social democracy and social democratic ideas in France and across Europe.
Lionel Zinsou is a French–Beninese economist and investment banker who was Prime Minister of Benin from 2015 to 2016. Since June 2017,he has been the president of Terra Nova,a centre-left French think tank.
The French Commission on renewal and ethics in public life,nicknamed Jospin commission,was a think tank established in 2012 by President François Hollande to provide reforms in public life.
Matthias Fekl is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as Minister of the Interior in the government of Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve in 2017.
Olivier Bianchi is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party,he has been mayor of Clermont-Ferrand since April 4,2014 and president of Clermont Auvergne Métropole since April 22,2014.
