Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005.
Alain Madelin is a French politician.
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).
The Union for a Popular Movement was a centre-right political party in France belonging to the Gaullist tradition. During its existence,the UMP was one of the two major parties in French politics along with the 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 succeeded by The Republicans.
Liberal Democracy was a conservative-liberal political party in France existing between 1997 and 2002. Headed by Alain Madelin,the party replaced the Republican Party,which was the classical liberal component of the Union for French Democracy (UDF).
The Union for French Democracy was a centre-right political party in France. The UDF was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over the political right in France. This name was chosen due to the title of Giscard d'Estaing's 1976 book,Démocratie française.
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 legislative 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.
Events from the year 2004 in France.
Regional elections in were held in France on 21 and 28 March 2004. At stake were the presidencies of each of France's 26 regions which,although they do not have legislative powers,manage sizeable budgets. The results were a triumph for the parties of the left,led by the French Socialist Party (PS) in alliance with minor parties,including the French Communist Party (PCF),the Left Radical Party (PRG) and The Greens. The left has usually fared moderately well in regional elections,but this was their best result since the regional system was introduced.
Xavier Bertrand is a French politician who has been serving as president of the regional council of Hauts-de-France since the 2015 regional elections.
Philippe Douste-Blazy is a French United Nations official and former centre-right politician. Over the course of his career,he served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations,Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development in the UN and chairman of UNITAID.
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 Union of Moderate Parties is a liberal political party in Vanuatu founded in 1981. At the last general election,held on 22 January 2016,they won 9.73% of the vote and 6 seats. It is currently headed by Ishmael Kalsakau.
Jean-Louis Marie Borloo is a French politician who served as president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) from 2012 to 2014. He also was Minister of the Economy,Finance and Employment in 2007 and Minister of Ecology,Energy,Sustainable Development and the Sea from 2007 until 2010 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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.
Luc-Marie Chatel is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who served as Minister of National Education in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from June 2009 to May 2012. In 2014,he served as the acting chair of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
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.
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.
François Patriat is a French politician of Renaissance who has been serving as president of the party's group in the Senate since 2017. He has represented the Côte-d'Or department in the Senate since 2008. Patriat also served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in 2002 and President of the Regional Council of Burgundy from 2004 until 2015. He was a member of the Socialist Party before joining La République En Marche! in 2017.
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".
