Roland Dumas was 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 2000.
Harlem Jean-Philippe Désir is a French politician. First widely known as a community activist and as the first president of SOS Racisme in the 1980s,he subsequently entered politics in the 1990s,first in Génération Écologie then in the Socialist Party where he rose to the rank of First Secretary. He served as MEP from 1999 to 2014 and then served in the government of France as Secretary of State for European Affairs from 2014 to 2017. Since 2017,he has served as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.
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.
Thierry Mariani is a French politician serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. He previously served as Minister in charge of Transport under the Minister of Ecology,Sustainable development,Transport and Housing from 2010 to 2012. A former member of The Republicans (LR),he has been an Independent since 2019.
Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti is a French-Spanish politician who,most recently,served as a Barcelona city councillor from 2019 to 2021. He served as Prime Minister of France from 2014 until 2016 under president François Hollande.
Thierry Repentin is a French politician who has served as Mayor of Chambéry since 2020. He previously served as a Senator for Savoie and in government as Minister Delegate for Vocational Training and Apprenticeship (2012–2013) and for European Affairs (2013–2014) under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault as a member of the Socialist Party (PS).
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.
Jean-Jacques Urvoas is a French politician. He was minister of Justice from 2016 to 2017. He represented Finistère's 1st constituency in the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2016,as a member of the Socialist,radical,citizen and miscellaneous left.
Marylise Lebranchu is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as Minister of the Reform of the State and of Decentralisation under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem is a Moroccan-born French former politician and jurist. A member of the Socialist Party (PS),she served in a number of ministerial positions during the presidency of François Hollande. Vallaud-Belkacem was the first woman to serve as Minister of Education,Higher Education,and Research,holding the position from 2014 to 2017 under Prime Ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve.
The Conseil national du numérique is a French independent advisory commission created on 29 April 2011 by the French presidential decree n°2011-476. It was reorganized and expanded by another French presidential decree on 13 December 2012,to expand its spectrum of actions to all the questions set up by the development of the digital in society and economy. The council issues independent opinions and recommendations on any question relating to the impact of digital technologies on economy and society. The government can consult the council on new legislation or draft regulations.
The Socialist Party is a centre-left to left-wing political party in France. It holds social democratic and 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 under the Fifth Republic,along with the Union for a Popular Movement. It replaced the earlier French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 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.
The First Valls government was the thirty-seventh government in the Fifth Republic of France. It was led by Manuel Valls,who was appointed prime minister of France on 31 March 2014. It was composed of 15 ministers from the Socialist Party (PS) and two from the Radical Party of the Left (PRG). It was the third cabinet declared by President Hollande and replaced the second Ayrault Cabinet. It was established following the 2014 French municipal elections.
The 9th constituency of Essonne is a French legislative constituency in the Essonne département.
The Second Valls government was the thirty-eighth government in the French Fifth Republic.
The French Socialist Party held a two-round presidential primary to select a candidate for the 2017 presidential election on 22 and 29 January 2017. It was the second open primary held by the center-left coalition,after the primary in 2011 in which François Hollande defeated Martine Aubry to become the Socialist nominee. Hollande went on to defeat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential election. However,because of his low approval rating,he announced that he would not seek re-election,becoming the first president of the Fifth Republic to decide not to run for a second term. The primary was contested by seven candidates,four from the Socialist Party and three representing other parties part of the left-wing electoral alliance.
Laurence Rossignol is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has served as a member of the French Senate from 2011 to 2014 and again since 2017,representing Oise. From 2014 to 2017,she served as Secretary of State for the Family,Senior Citizens and Autonomy in the governments of Prime Ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve.
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.
Thierry Lataste is a senior French civil servant,who served as High Commissioner of New Caledonia from July to August 1994,1999 to 2002,and again from 2016 to 2019.
Carole Delga is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as the President of the Regional Council of Occitania since 2016.
