Marie-Ségolène Royal is a French politician,who was the Socialist Party candidate for the Presidency of France in the 2007 election.
The Citizen and Republican Movement is a political party in France. The party replaced in 2002 the Citizens' Movement founded by Jean-Pierre Chevènement,who left the Socialist Party (PS) in 1993 due to his opposition to the Gulf War and to the Maastricht Treaty. It is a Eurosceptic party with leftist aspirations.
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.
Edgar Morin is a French philosopher and sociologist of the theory of information who has been recognized for his work on complexity and "complex thought",and for his scholarly contributions to such diverse fields as media studies,politics,sociology,visual anthropology,ecology,education,and systems biology. As he explains:He holds two bachelors:one in history and geography and one in law. He never did a Ph.D. Though less well known in the anglophone world due to the limited availability of English translations of his over 60 books,Morin is renowned in the French-speaking world,Europe,and Latin America.
Robert Buron was a French politician and Minister of Finance from 20 January 1955 to 23 February 1955 and Minister of Public Works,Transport,and Tourism during Charles de Gaulle's third term from 9 June 1958 to 8 January 1959.
AndréSiegfried was a French academic,geographer and political writer best known to English speakers for his commentaries on American,Canadian,and British politics.
Roger Holeindre was a French Army veteran,politician and author. He served in the First Indochina War and the Algerian War,was a member of the National Assembly from 1986 to 1988. Holeindre also served as the vice-president of the National Front (FN) where he represented the "national-conservative" tendency,opposed to "nationalist revolutionaries" and Third Position ideologies. Holeindre was the president of the Cercle national des combattants and the honorary president of the Party of France.
The French municipal elections of 2008 were held on 9 and 16 March to elect the municipal councils of France's 36,782 communes. The first task of each newly constituted municipal council was to elect a mayor.
Conchita Lacuey is French politician. A former member of the National Assembly of France,she represented Gironde's 4th constituency as a member of the Socialist Party.
Valérie Fourneyron is a former French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as Chair of the Board of the International Testing Agency (ITA) since 2017. She previously served as Junior Minister for Crafts,Trade,Tourism and Social Economy in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls from 2014 until 2017. She was also a member of the National Assembly and the Mayor of Rouen.
The Métropole du Grand Paris,or Greater Paris,is a métropole covering the City of Paris and its nearest surrounding suburbs. The métropole came into existence on 1 January 2016;it comprises 131 communes,including Paris and all 123 communes in the surrounding inner-suburban departments of the Petite Couronne,plus seven communes in two of the outer-suburban departments,including the communes of Argenteuil in Val-d'Oise,Savigny-sur-Orge,Juvisy-sur-Orge,Viry-Châtillon and Paray-Vieille-Poste in Essonne,the last of which covers part of Orly Airport. Part of the métropole comprises the Seine department,which existed from 1929 to 1968. Grand Paris covers 814 square kilometers and has a population of over 7 million.
The 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary was the first open primary of the French Socialist Party and Radical Party of the Left for selecting their candidate for the 2012 presidential election. The filing deadline for primary nomination papers was fixed at 13 July 2011 and six candidates competed in the first round of the vote. On election day,9 October 2011,no candidate won 50 percent of the vote,and the two candidates with the most votes contested a runoff election on 16 October 2011. François Hollande ultimately won the primary,defeating Martine Aubry.
The Eighth constituency for French residents overseas is one of eleven constituencies each electing one representative of French citizens overseas to the French National Assembly.
The Belgian provincial,municipal and district elections of 2018 took place on Sunday 14 October 2018. They are organised by the respective regions:
The Prix du meilleur livre sur le théâtre du Syndicat de la critique is a French artistic award rewarding the best works on theater of the year.
Olivier Falorni is a French politician. He was elected to the French National Assembly on 17 June 2012,representing La Rochelle in the 1st constituency of the department of Charente-Maritime. He was re-elected in 2017 and again in 2022.
The 2020 French municipal elections were held from 15 March to 28 June to renew the municipal councils of the approximately 35,000 French communes. The first round took place on 15 March and the second round was postponed to 28 June due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Géraldine Muhlmann is a French political scientist and political journalist. She is a former host of the France 5 program C politique.
Karine Daniel,born 22 June 1974 in Nantes,is a French politician and economist. She was the deputy for Loire-Atlantique's 3rd constituency in the National Assembly of France from 2016 to 2017.
The New Ecological and Social People's Union is a left-wing alliance of political parties in France. Formed on May Day 2022,the alliance includes La France Insoumise (LFI),the Socialist Party (PS),the French Communist Party (PCF),Europe Ecology –The Greens (EELV),Ensemble! (E!),and Génération.s (G.s),and their respective smaller partners. It was the first wide left-wing political alliance since the Plural Left in the 1997 French legislative election. Over 70 dissident candidates who refused the accord still ran.
