In the administrative divisions of France,the department is one of the three levels of government under the national level,between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety-six departments are in metropolitan France,and five are overseas departments,which are also classified as overseas regions. Departments are further subdivided into 332 arrondissements,and these are divided into cantons. The last two levels of government have no autonomy;they are the basis of local organisation of police,fire departments and,sometimes,administration of elections.
The Rally for the Republic,was a Gaullist and conservative political party in France. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR),it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 and presented itself as the heir of Gaullist politics. On 21 September 2002,the RPR was merged into the Union for the Presidential Majority,later renamed the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
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 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 1995 to 2004.
Édouard Balladur is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under François Mitterrand from 29 March 1993 to 17 May 1995. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1995 French presidential election,coming in third place. At age 92,Balladur is currently the oldest living former French Prime Minister.
Jean Tiberi is a French politician who was mayor of Paris from May 22,1995 to March 24,2001. As of 2007,he was mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris and deputy to the French National Assembly from the second district of Paris.
François RenéJean Lucien Bayrou is a French politician who has presided over the Democratic Movement (MoDem) since he founded it in 2007. A centrist,he was a candidate in the 2002,2007 and 2012 presidential elections. He has also presided over the European Democratic Party (EDP) since 2004.
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres,often known as RDDV,is a French politician,France's Minister of Culture from 2004 to 2007. He is a member of the UMP center-right party,and the grandson of Henri Donnedieu de Vabres.
The city of Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements municipaux,administrative districts,more simply referred to as arrondissements. These are not to be confused with departmental arrondissements,which subdivide the larger French départements. The word "arrondissement",when applied to Paris,refers almost always to the municipal arrondissements listed below.
Philippe Séguin was a French political figure who was President of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997 and President of the Cour des Comptes of France from 2004 to 2010.
Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie,known in France as MAM,is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Republicans,part of the European People's Party. A member of all right-wing governments formed in the 1980s,1990s and 2000s,she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense (2002–2007),the Interior (2007–2009) and Foreign Affairs (2010–2011);she has also been in charge of Youth and Sports (1993–1995) and Justice (2009–2010),and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices.
Patrick Devedjian was a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. A close adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy since the 1990s,he was Minister under the Prime Minister in charge of the Implementation of the Recovery Plan,a special ministerial post created for two years following the global financial crisis of 2008,a tenure which commenced in December 2008. He was of Armenian descent. In the night of 28 to 29 March 2020,he died of COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic.
François Claude Pierre RenéBaroin is a French politician and lawyer who served as Finance Minister from 2011 to 2012,following a stint as Budget Minister in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon. A member of The Republicans (LR),he was a long-time ally of Jacques Chirac and has been Mayor of Troyes in Champagne since 1995.
Nathalie Geneviève Marie Kosciusko-Morizet,often referred to by her initials NKM,is an engineer,public figure and advocate,having previously had a political career.
AndréSantini is a French politician and current mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux,Hauts-de-Seine.
Jean-François Copé is a French politician serving as Mayor of Meaux since 1995 with an interruption from 2002 to 2005. He was Government Spokesman between 2002 and 2007,when assumed other tenures in the government—including Minister of the Budget—at the same time. He also served as the member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of Seine-et-Marne and president of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) group in the National Assembly. In November 2010 he became the party's secretary-general. In August 2012 he announced that he would run for the presidency of the UMP,facing the former Prime Minister François Fillon.
The Council of Paris is the deliberative body responsible for the governing of Paris,the capital of France. It possesses simultaneously the powers of a municipal council and those of a departmental council for the département de Paris,as defined by the so-called PLM Law of 1982 that redefined the governance of Paris,Lyon and Marseille. Paris is the only territorial collectivity in France to be both a commune and a département.
Ana María "Anne" Hidalgo Aleu is a Spanish-French politician who has been serving as Mayor of Paris since 2014. A member of the Socialist Party (PS),she is the first woman to hold the office.
Guy Teissier is a French politician who has served as the member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône department since 1993,previously briefly holding the position in 1988. He has been a member of The Republicans (LR) since the party was established in 2015 as the successor to the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Teissier previously held the mayorship of the 5th sector of Marseille from 1983 to 1989 and again from 1995 until 2014.
Georges Sarre was a French politician and leader of the Citizen and Republican Movement.
Agnès Evren is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
