The Union for a Popular Movement was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Socialist Party (PS). The UMP was formed in 2002 as a merger of several centre-right parties under the leadership of President Jacques Chirac. In May 2015,the party was renamed and succeeded by The Republicans.
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande is a French politician who served as president of France from 2012 to 2017. He previously was First Secretary of the Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008,Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008,and President of the General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012. Hollande also served in the National Assembly twice for the first constituency of Corrèze from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1997 until 2012.
Fauchon is a French gourmet food and delicatessen company that was founded in 1886 in Paris. Fauchon is considered a major reference in contemporary French gourmet foods,and it had 81 outlets in operation around the world as of 2019.
Thomas Boni Yayi is a Beninese banker and politician who was 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.
François Henri Goullet de Rugy is a French politician who served as President of the National Assembly from 2017 to 2018 and Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition from 2018 to 2019.
The Socialists and affiliated group is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including 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 has been serving as Prime Minister of Niger since 3 April 2021.
Severiano de Heredia was a Cuban-born biracial politician,a freemason,a left-wing republican,naturalized as French in 1870,who was president of the municipal council of Paris from 1 August 1879 to 12 February 1880,making him the only native of the American continent who was appointed on relevant post of the Mayor of Paris and the first mayor of African descent of a Western world capital.
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 and economist. 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 Front National. 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.
The 2019 European Parliament election in France were held on 26 May 2019,electing members of the 9th French delegation to the European Parliament as part of the elections held across the European Union. The election featured two major changes since the 2014 election:the return to a single national constituency and the increase in the number of French seats from 74 to 79 upon the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Officially,79 MEPs were considered to have been elected,including five "virtual" MEPs who did not take their seats until the UK formally left the EU. The election featured 34 separate electoral lists,a record number at the national level.
Nous Citoyens is a political party in France founded in July 2013 by entrepreneur Denis Payre. The name of the party was chosen a reference to the phrase "Moi président de la République...",repeated by François Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy in the debate between the two rounds of the 2012 presidential election. The party aims to elect figures from civil society and with business experience in place of the professional political class,supporting liberal and social liberal policies and presenting an "alternative offer to the FN". It claims to go beyond the left-right divide with a program created through "participatory democracy" supportive of globalization and critical of the French labor code. In the 2014 municipal elections,Nous Citoyens offered its support to any candidates committed to "good governance,transparency,and the non-accumulation of mandates",and won a total of 58 seats across 18 communes. In the subsequent European elections,the party solicited applications from its members to join its electoral lists,hoping to be present in all 8 European Parliament constituencies in France. Nous Citoyens ultimately presented lists in 7 constituencies,winning 1.41% of the vote nationally.
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 (1961–present) is president of the Moroccan Olympic Committee and president of the SociétéNational de la Radio Télévision (SNRT).
Louise Dandurand (1950–2016) was a Canadian political scientist and administrator of university research in Canada.
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.
