Lionel Robert Jospin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
The 2002 French presidential election consisted of a first round election on 21 April 2002,and a runoff election between the top two candidates on 5 May 2002. 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.
The 1995 French presidential election to elect the fifth president of the French Fifth Republic took place on 23 April and 7 May 1995.
The Radical Party of the Left is a social-liberal political party in France. A party in the Radical tradition,since 1972 the PRG was 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.
Benoît Hamon is a French politician known for his former role within the Socialist Party (PS) and Party of European Socialists (PES) and his political party Génération.s.
Dominique Gaston AndréStrauss-Kahn is a French economist,politician,former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),and a figure in the French Socialist Party who attained notoriety due to his involvement in several financial and sexual scandals. He is often referred to in the media,and by himself,by his initials DSK. Strauss-Kahn was appointed managing director of the IMF on 28 September 2007,with the backing of then–President of France Nicolas Sarkozy. He served in that capacity until his resignation on 18 May 2011,in the wake of an allegation that he had sexually assaulted a hotel maid. Other allegations followed,but he was acquitted.
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 Persian Gulf War and to the Maastricht Treaty. It is a Eurosceptic party with leftist aspirations.
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 French Socialist Party,he was deputy for Landes from 1978 to 1981,from 1986 to 1997,and from 2000 to 2017.
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.
Daniel Vaillant is a French Socialist politician.
Olivier Christophe Besancenot is a French far-left political figure and trade unionist,and the founding main spokesperson of the New Anticapitalist Party from 2009 to 2011.
Le Siècle is an elite transpartisan social club in France that meets once a month for dinner at the French Automobile Club in Paris's Place de la Concorde. Membership in Le Siècle "symbolizes the French nomenklatura" and includes France's top intellectuals,politicians,chief executives,journalists,and artists;since the 1970s,one-third to half of all French government ministers were members of Le Siècle,regardless of political affiliation or party membership.
Jean Peyrelevade is a senior French center-left politician and business leader.
The Socialist Party is a centre-left,social-democratic political party in France. It holds pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the French centre-left and used to be one of the two major political parties in the French Fifth Republic,along with The Republicans. It replaced the earlier French Section of the Workers' International 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 liberal think tank considered close to the French Socialist Party and now close 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.
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.
