Corrèze is a département in France,named after the river Corrèze which runs through it. Although its prefecture is Tulle,its most populated city is Brive-la-Gaillarde. Corrèze is located in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region,on the border with Occitania and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Prior to 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. Hollande also held the 1st constituency of Corrèze seat in the National Assembly twice,from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1997 until 2012.
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.
Roland Dumas is a French lawyer and Socialist politician who served as Foreign Minister under President François Mitterrand from 1984 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993. He was also President of the Constitutional Council from 1995 to 1999.
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.
Martine Louise Marie Aubry is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from November 2008 to April 2012,and has been the Mayor of Lille (Nord) since March 2001;she is also the first female to hold this position. Her father,Jacques Delors,served as Minister of Finance under President François Mitterrand and was also President of the European Commission.
AndréVallini is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the Senate since 2017.
The French legislative elections took place on 10 June and 17 June 2007 to elect the 13th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic,a few weeks after the French presidential election run-off on 6 May. 7,639 candidates stood for 577 seats,including France's overseas possessions. Early first-round results projected a large majority for President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP and its allies;however,second-round results showed a closer race and a stronger left. Nevertheless,the right retained its majority from 2002 despite losing some 40 seats to the Socialists.
Bernard Guy Georges Cazeneuve is a French politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 December 2016 to 15 May 2017. A member of the Socialist Party,he represented Manche’s 5th constituency in the National Assembly from 1997 to 2002 and again from 2007 to 2012. On 4 May 2022,following the Socialist Party's electoral coalition agreement with the leftist La France Insoumise,he left the Socialist Party because he felt La France Insoumise did not match the values and morals of the Socialist Party.
Claude Bartolone is a Tunisian-born French politician who served as President of the National Assembly of France from 2012 to 2017.
Jean-Christophe Cambadélis is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as the party's First Secretary from April 2014 to June 2017. He was a member of the National Assembly of France,representing the city of Paris,as a member of the Socialist,Republican &Citizen.
Jérôme AndréCahuzac is a French surgeon and former politician who served as Minister of the Budget at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance under President François Hollande from 2012 to 2013. A former member of the Socialist Party (PS),he previously was the member of the National Assembly for the 3rd constituency of Lot-et-Garonne from 1997 to 2002 and again from 2007 to 2012. He resigned from his ministership and was expelled from his party amidst the Cahuzac affair,in which he was accused and subsequently convicted of tax fraud.
Michel Sapin is a French politician who served as Minister of Finance from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2014 to 2017. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
Legislative elections took place on 10 and 17 June 2012 to select the members of the 14th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic,a little over a month after the French presidential election run-off held on 6 May.
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".
President of the General Council of Corrèze and former First Secretary of the French Socialist Party François Hollande launched his campaign in March 2011 to become the Socialist and Radical Left Party candidate for the 2012 French presidential election and announced that he would be contesting the presidential primary. Hollande made the announcement that he was running for President following his re-election as a department executive. On 16 October 2011 he won the Socialist and Radical Left Party nomination with more than 56% of the votes over First Secretary Martine Aubry,following a long campaign. On 22 April he topped the ballot in the first round of voting in the presidential election,and on 6 May he defeated the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round run-off,becoming the new President of France.
The Socialist Party is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. It holds pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French 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.
Events from the year 2014 in France.
The 14th legislature of the French Fifth Republic was the French Parliament elected in the 2012 French legislative election.
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.
