The Union for a Popular Movement was a liberal-conservative political party in France,largely inspired by the Gaullist tradition. During its existence,the UMP was one of the two major parties in French politics along with the Socialist Party (PS). In May 2015,the party was succeeded by The Republicans.
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande is a French politician who served as the 24th president of France from 2012 to 2017. Before his presidency,he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) from 1997 to 2008,Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008,as well as President of the General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012. He also held the 1st constituency of Corrèze seat in the National Assembly for the third time,first from 1988 to 1993,then from 1997 until 2012 and was reelected in 2024.
Thomas Boni Yayi is a Beninese banker and politician who was the president of Benin from 2006 to 2016. He took office after winning the March 2006 presidential election and was re-elected to a second term in March 2011. He also served as the chairperson of the African Union from 29 January 2012 to 27 January 2013.
The General Directorate for Internal Security is a French security agency. It is charged with counter-espionage,counter-terrorism,countering cybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups,organisations and social phenomena.
The Socialists and affiliated group is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly of France that includes representatives of the Socialist Party (PS).
Marisol Touraine is a French politician who served as Minister of Social Affairs and Health under Prime Ministers Jean-Marc Ayrault,Manuel Valls,and Bernard Cazeneuve.
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou is a Nigerien politician of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya) who served as Prime Minister of Niger between 3 April 2021 and 26 July 2023,until he was deposed in the wake of the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état.
Gilles Schnepp is a French corporate senior executive. He was the Chairman and chief executive officer of the Legrand Group between March 2006 and February 2018,and then chairman until 2020. In March 2021,he was appointed chairman of Danone's board of directors.
Knuckleheads is a Canadian adult animated series based on Têtes àclaques. The show first aired on Télétoon la nuit on January 12,2012 as a preview,with regular airings starting on March 1,2012. It also premiered in France on January 15,2012 on Canal+ Family.
Pierre Lescure is a French journalist and television executive. He is known for having founded the French TV music show Les Enfants du rock broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Canal+ channel from its creation in 1984 to 2002. Since 2015 he has been the president of the Cannes Film Festival.
Nicolas Georges Norbert Dufourcq is a French businessman. He has been the general manager of the Banque Publique d’Investissement (Bpifrance) since its creation in January 2013.
Steeve Briois is a French politician. In 2017,he was interim leader of the National Front. In 2014,he was elected mayor of Hénin-Beaumont and a member of the European Parliament. From 2011 to 2014,he was general-secretary of the National Front. He was a member of the regional council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais from 1998 to 2014.
Ralph Toledano is a French-Moroccan businessman. He is president of the Puig group’s fashion division;president of the Fédération française de la Couture,du Prêt àPorter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode;and president of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture.
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.
Stéphane Travert is a French politician who has served as member of the National Assembly for Manche's 3rd constituency since 2018 and previously from 2012 to 2017.
A substitute is a political candidate who is not directly elected,but who succeeds a politician holding an elected office after that person ceases to hold the office due to,for example,resignation or death. This system can be used to fill casual vacancies instead of holding by-elections or special elections to fill the vacant office. Substitutes are nominated,not at the time the vacancy arises but,rather,before the election for the information of voters. In voting systems which use electoral lists,the candidates on a given list who are not among those initially elected may become the substitutes for those who are. In other systems,individual candidates may have substitutes.
Jordan Bardella is a French politician who has been the president of the National Rally (RN) since 2022,after serving as acting president from September 2021 to November 2022 and as vice-president from 2019 to 2022. Bardella has also served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019,when he was the lead candidate for the RN in the European Parliament election,and has been a regional councillor of Île-de-France since 2015.
RenéFontès was a French rugby union executive and politician. He was the club president of Top 14 side Clermont Auvergne from 2004 to 2013. He was also mayor of the Eygalières commune in Bouches-du-Rhône from 2008 until his death in 2019.
Faïçal Laraïchi is president of the Moroccan Olympic Committee and president of the SociétéNationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision (SNRT).
Patrick Dupriez is a Belgian French-speaking former politician,who led the Ecolo party alongside co-chair Zakia Khattabi from 22 March 2015 until 19 October 2018.
