Christian Poncelet was a conservative French politician. A member of President Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP),he was President of the Senate from 1998 to 2008. In addition to being a Senator,he was Mayor of Remiremont (Vosges) and was also the President of the General Council of Vosges.
Robert Navarro is a French politician and French Senator representing Hérault. He is a member of the Socialist Party (PS),which is part of the Party of European Socialists.
Franco Marini was an Italian politician and a prominent member of the centre-left Democratic Party. From 2006 to 2008,he was the president of the Senate.
Jean-Claude Gaudin is a French politician for The Republicans. He served as the Mayor of Marseille from 1995 to 2020.
Roger Karoutchi is a French teacher and politician who has been serving as the first Vice President of the French Senate since 2020. He previously served as the French Ambassador to the OECD and as Secretary of State to the French Prime Minister,with responsibility for Relations with Parliament.
A snap election was held in Italy on 13–14 April 2008. The election came after President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved the Italian Parliament on 6 February 2008,following the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a January 2008 Senate vote of confidence and the unsuccessful tentative appointment of Franco Marini with the aim to change the current electoral law. Under Italian law,elections must be held within 70 days of the dissolution. The voting determined the leader of Italy's 62nd government since the end of World War II. The coalition led by ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from The People of Freedom party defeated that of former Mayor of Rome,Walter Veltroni of the Democratic Party.
Alain Joyandet is a French politician who was appointed Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophony in the government of François Fillon from 18 March 2008 to July 2010. Prior to that,he was CEO of the SociétéNouvelle des Éditions Comtoises (SNEC),a publisher of weekly newspapers and journals. He is a journalist by training.
Gérard Philippe RenéAndréLarcher is a French politician serving as president of the Senate since 2014,previously holding the office from 2008 to 2011. A member of The Republicans,he has been a Senator for the Yvelines department since 1986,with an interruption between 2004 and 2007,when he was Minister for Employment,Labour and Professional Integration of Young People under President Jacques Chirac. Larcher also served as mayor of Rambouillet from 1983 to 2004 and again from 2007 until 2014.
Henri de Raincourt is a French politician who was Minister for Relations with Parliament (2009-2010) and Minister in charge of Co-operation (2010-2012) during Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency. Previously a Senator representing the Yonne department,he is set to re-join the Senate in June 2012,a month after leaving the Government.
Jacques Blanc is a French politician and former senator for the Lozère department. He is also mayor of La Canourgue and president of the Aubrac-Lot-Causse communautéde communes. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
Joël Bourdin is a former member of the Senate of France who represented the Eure department. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Alain Chatillon is a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Haute-Garonne department and is a member of the Radical Party.
Jean-Claude Étienne was a French politician,and a member of the Senate of France. He represented the Marne department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.
Jean-François Humbert is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Doubs department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.
Jean-Louis Masson is a French politician. An Independent,he has served as a Senator for Moselle since 2001. He previously served as a member of the National Assembly for Moselle from 1978 to 1997. Masson is a former member of the Rally for the Republic (RPR) and Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
Robert Tropeano is a former member of the Senate of France,who represented the Hérault department. He is a member of the European Democratic and Social Rally group in the Senate.
The 2014 French senate election was held on 28 September 2014 and featured results which saw the senate being reclaimed by the centre-right party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). The right-wing conservative victory reversed the results which came during the previous 2011 French senate election,which was the first time since the foundation of the Fifth Republic in 1958 that the upper house of the French government had been won by a majority of left-wing candidates. Following the victory of the UMP,Gérard Larcher was nominated and subsequently elected to the position of president of the senate,taking the place of Jean-Pierre Bel who had served in the position following the Socialist Party's senate victory in 2011. The Far-right National Front party also claimed its first two seats in the senate election,which their leader Marine Le Pen described as "a historic victory".
The Popular Right is a recognised movement within the National Rally (RN) since 2019,previously within the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and The Republicans (LR). It was founded in 2010 as the Collectif parlementaire de la Droite populaire,a caucus of UMP parliamentarians which included 26 members of the National Assembly. The Popular Right seeks to emphasise issues such as national identity,security and immigration. Its leader is Thierry Mariani,currently an MEP.
Senate Republicans,formerly the Union for a Popular Movement,is a parliamentary group in the French Senate including representatives of The Republicans (LR),formerly the Union for a Popular Movement.
Sylviane Noël is a French politician. She has served as a member of the Senate of France since 2018,representing the Haute-Savoie department. Noël is the first women to represent the department in the Senate. She is a member of The Republicans.
