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.
Jean-Louis Bourlanges is a French politician who has represented the 12th constituency of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the National Assembly since 2017. A member of the Democratic Movement (MoDem),he has presided over the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the National Assembly since 2021.
François Charles Armand Fillon is a retired French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of the Republicans,the country's largest centre-right political party,for the 2017 presidential election where he ranked third in the first round of voting.
Éric Woerth is a French politician of The Republicans (LR).
Bruno Daniel Marie Paul Retailleau is a French politician who has presided over The Republicans group in the Senate since 2014. He has represented the Vendée department in the Senate since 2004. Retailleau also served as President of the General Council of Vendée from 2010 to 2015 and President of the Regional Council of Pays de la Loire from 2015 until 2017.
Catherine Vautrin is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who served as a member of the National Assembly of France,representing the Marne department.
Franck Riester is a French politician who has been serving as Minister Delegate for Parliamentary Relations in the Government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne since July 2022. He previously served as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex and Élisabeth Borne between 2020 and 2022. A former member of The Republicans,he founded and currently leads the centre-right Agir party.
Françoise Hostalier was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented Nord's 15th constituency from 2002 to 2012. She campaigned for François Fillon in the first round of the 2017 French presidential election,she supported Marine Le Pen in the second round.
Jean-Christophe Lagarde is a French politician serving as president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) since 2014. He succeeded Jean-Louis Borloo after a short interim by Yves Jégo. Lagarde has been the member of the National Assembly for the fifth constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis since 2002.
Michèle Tabarot is a French politician of the Republicans who currently serves as a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Alpes-Maritimes 9th constituency.
Yannick Favennec Becot is a French politician of the Horizons party,within the Ensemble Citoyens coalition supporting incumbent President Emmanuel Macron,who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2002 elections,representing the Mayenne department.
Éric Ciotti is a French politician who has represented the 1st constituency of Alpes-Maritimes in the National Assembly since 2007. A member of The Republicans (LR),he sought the party's nomination for the 2022 presidential election at its 2021 congress;he placed first in the first round of voting but was defeated by Valérie Pécresse in the second round. Ciotti previously briefly served as First Deputy Mayor of Nice under Mayor Christian Estrosi in 2008,before he assumed the presidency of the Departmental Council of Alpes-Maritimes from 2008 to 2017.
The 2017 French presidential election was held on 23 April and 7 May 2017. As no candidate won a majority in the first round,a runoff was held between the top two candidates,Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! (EM) and Marine Le Pen of the National Front (FN),which Macron won with a difference of more than 30% of the vote. The presidential election was followed by a legislative election to elect members of the National Assembly on 11 and 18 June. Incumbent president François Hollande of the Socialist Party (PS) was eligible to run for a second term,but declared on 1 December 2016 that he would not seek reelection in light of low approval ratings,making him the first incumbent head of state of the Fifth Republic not to seek reelection.
The Republicans group,formerly the Union for a Popular Movement group,is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of The Republicans (LR),formerly the Union for a Popular Movement.
The Union of Democrats and Independents is a centre to centre-right political party in France and former electoral alliance founded on 18 September 2012 on the basis of the parliamentary group of the same name in the National Assembly. The party was composed of separate political parties who retained their independence,but always in coalition with the biggest right wing party The Republicans. As most of them have been expelled or have left,the Democratic European Force is the last founding party to participate in the UDI.
The Republicans is a liberal-conservative political party in France,largely inspired by the Gaullist tradition. It holds pro-European views.
Legislative elections in France were held on 11 and 18 June 2017 to elect the 577 members of the 15th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They followed the two-round presidential election won by Emmanuel Macron. The centrist party he founded in 2016,La République En Marche! (LREM),led an alliance with the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem);together,the two parties won 350 of the 577 seats—a substantial majority—in the National Assembly,including an outright majority of 308 seats for LREM. The Socialist Party (PS) was reduced to 30 seats and the Republicans (LR) reduced to 112 seats,and both parties' allies also suffered from a marked drop in support;these were the lowest-ever scores for the centre-left and centre-right in the legislative elections. The movement founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon,la France Insoumise (FI),secured 17 seats,enough for a group in the National Assembly. Among other major parties,the French Communist Party (PCF) secured ten and the National Front (FN) obtained eight seats. Both rounds of the legislative election were marked by record low turnout.
Édouard Charles Philippe is a French politician serving as Mayor of Le Havre since 2020,previously holding the office from 2010 to 2017. He was Prime Minister of France from 15 May 2017 to 3 July 2020 under President Emmanuel Macron.
Aurore Bergé is a French politician who has represented the 10th constituency of the Yvelines department in the National Assembly since 2017. A former member of The Republicans (LR),which she left to join La République En Marche! (LREM) in early 2017,she is considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron. Since 2022,she has been leading the party's group in the National Assembly.
A leadership election for the presidency of The Republicans (LR) was held on 10 December 2017,the first since the refoundation of the party in 2015,before which it was known as the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP),and seventh overall including the UMP congresses.
