Charente-Maritime is a département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region on the southwestern coast of France. Named after the river Charente,its prefecture is La Rochelle. As of 2019,it had a population of 651,358 with an area of 6,864 square kilometres.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005.
Poitou-Charentes was an administrative region on the southwest coast of France. It is part of the new region Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It comprised four departments:Charente,Charente-Maritime,Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. It included the historical provinces of Angoumois,Aunis,Saintonge and Poitou.
The Movement for France was a conservative,soft Eurosceptic and Gaullist French political party,founded on 20 November 1994,with a marked regional stronghold in the Vendée. It was led by Philippe de Villiers,once communications minister under Jacques Chirac.
Dominique Bussereau is a French politician. He is president of the departmental council of Charente-Maritime since 2008 and president of the Assembly of the Departments of France since 2015.
RenéMonory was a French centre-right Gaullist politician.
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.
Arvert is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.
Étaules is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.
Nicole Bonnefoy is a member of the Senate of France,representing the Charente department. She is a member of the Socialist Party.
Catherine Quéré is a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party.
Jean-Louis Léonard (born 24 July 1950 in Besançon is a French politician and a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Maxime Bono is a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party. He has been mayor of La Rochelle from April 1999 to April 2014,president of the Agglomeration community of La Rochelle from January 2000 to April 2014 and an MP of the Charente-Maritime's 1st constituency from April 1999 until June 2012. During his two mandates,he was a member of the Socialist,Radical,Citizen and Miscellaneous Left parliamentary group.
The Politics of Poitou-Charentes,France takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democracy,whereby the President of Regional Council is the head of government,and of a pluriform multi-party system. Legislative power is vested in the regional council.
The 4th constituency of Charente-Maritime is one of five electoral districts in the department of Charente-Maritime,each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system,with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
The 5th constituency of Charente-Maritime is one of five electoral districts in the department of Charente-Maritime,each of which returns one deputy to the French National Assembly in elections using the two-round system,with a run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the largest administrative region in France,spanning the west and southwest of the mainland. The region was created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014 through the merger of three regions:Aquitaine,Limousin and Poitou-Charentes. It covers 84,036 km2 (32,446 sq mi) –or 1⁄8 of the country –and has 5,956,978 inhabitants. The new region was established on 1 January 2016,following the regional elections in December 2015.
Raphaël Gérard is a French politician of La République En Marche (LREM) who has been a member of the French National Assembly since 2017,where he represents the 4th constituency of Charente-Maritime.
Miss Poitou-Charentes is a French beauty pageant which selects a representative for the Miss France national competition from the region of Poitou-Charentes. Women representing the region under various different titles have competed at Miss France since 1957,although the Miss Poitou-Charentes title was not used regularly until 2006.
Christophe Plassard is a French politician. He was elected Member of Parliament in 2022 as part of the Ensemble coalition.
