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Women In The French Senate
This article is to share the history and details of women in the French Senate. History Women have been able to serve in political office in France since 1944. In 1997, only 5.9% of senators were women. In 2015, 25% of senators were women. In mid-1999, an amendment was added to the French Constitution mandating gender parity in electoral candidates for senators. General de Gualle declared in June 23, 1942 that "all men and women will elect the National Assembly". Marthe Simard and Lucie Aubrac were appointed members of the Provisional Consultative Assembly of Algiers:. From 1944-1945, 16 women sat as delegates to this assembly Lucie Aubrac, Madeleine Braun, Gilberte Brossolette, , Claire Davinroy, , , , , Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux, Mathilde Gabriel-Péri, Pauline Ramart, Marthe Simard, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, , and Andrée Viénot Andrée Viénot (7 June 1901 – 20 October 1976) was a French politician. Biography Andrée Viénot was born as Andrée ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 French Senate Election
Following the end of the nine-year terms of Series C senators, a senatorial election was held on 26 September 2001 in order to renew one-third of the members of the Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ....102 of the 322 seats were up for election. Results References {{French Senate Senate (France) elections Senate election Senate election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Thérèse Goutmann
Marie-Thérèse Goutmann was a communist politician and the first woman to chair a Senate parliamentary group in France. She was born in 1933 to the painter and resistance fighter Jean Milhau. She joined the French Communist Party at the age of 18, and after several unsuccessful election attempts became a senator for Seine-Saint-Denis in 1968. She chaired the communist parliamentary group after the death of Jacques Duclos Jacques Duclos (2 October 189625 April 1975) was a French Communist politician who played a key role in French politics from 1926, when he entered the French National Assembly after defeating Paul Reynaud, until 1969, when he won a substantial p ... in 1975 until 1978. In 1986, she received a six-month suspended sentence and 8,000 franc fine for electoral fraud in the municipal elections of Noisy-le-Grand. References 1933 births 2016 deaths French Communist Party politicians French Senators of the Fifth Republic Women members of the Senate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hautes-Pyrénées
Hautes-Pyrénées (; Gascon/Occitan: ''Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus'' awts piɾeˈnɛʊs es, Altos Pirineos; ca, Alts Pirineus alts piɾiˈneʊs English: Upper Pyrenees) is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France. In 2019, its population was 229,567;Populations légales 2019: 65 Hautes-Pyrénées INSEE its is . It is named after the mountain range. History [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viviane Artigalas
Viviane Artigalas (born 22 October 1956) is a French politician of the Socialist Party. She became a senator for Hautes-Pyrénées in October 2017. Career Artigalas started her political career as a municipal councillor of Milly-la-Forêt, Essonne. She supported candidate Ségolène Royal in the 2007 presidential election. Artigalas was elected mayor of Arrens-Marsous, Hautes-Pyrénées in 2012 and re-elected in 2014. She was the deputy chairwoman of the Val d'Azun community of communes from 2008 to 2016, then a member of the Pyrénées Vallées des Gaves community of communes in 2017. Besides, she was a regional councillor of Midi-Pyrénées between 2010 and 2015 and became the deputy chairwoman of the Midi-Pyrénées Regional Council. Artigalas stood in the 2011 cantonal election in the canton of Aucun but was defeated by Marc Léo. Member of the Senate, 2017–present On 24 September 2017 Artigalas was elected a senator for Hautes-Pyrénées. She was appointed as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyrénées-Orientales
Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. It also surrounds the tiny Spanish exclave of Llívia, and thus has two distinct borders with Spain. In 2019, it had a population of 479,979.Populations légales 2019: 66 Pyrénées-Orientales INSEE Some parts of the Pyrénées-Orientales (like the ) are part of the . It is na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Alduy
Jacqueline Alduy (20 March 192415 March 2016) was a French politician. She was the mayor of Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda for 42 years, from 1959 to March 2001. She was the mother of Jean-Paul Alduy, mayor of Perpignan, and the wife of Paul Alduy, who was also mayor of Perpignan from 1959 to 1993. Roles in the Senate * Senator for Pyrénées-Orientales Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. ... (19821983) * Member of the commission for cultural affairs Earlier roles * General Council of Pyrénées-Orientales (19672001) * Mayor of Amélie-les-Bains from 1959 to 2001 External links Her webpage on the Senate website References 1924 births 2016 deaths People from Hanoi People of the Tonkin Protectorate Union for French Democracy politicians French Senators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Éboué-Tell
Eugenie Eboue-Tell (23 November 1891 in Cayenne, French Guiana – 20 November 1972 in Pontoise, France) was a politician from French Guiana who was elected to the French Senate in 1946 and reelected in 1948. She was the first black woman elected to the French National Assembly. She was the widow of Félix Éboué. Biography Origins, studies, resistance She is the daughter of Hypollite Herménégilde Tell, director of the Cayenne penal colony. She completed part of her studies at the high school for young girls in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) and obtained the certificate of pedagogical aptitude1. She returned to Guyana in 1911 and became a teacher2, in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. She married Félix Éboué on June 14, 1922 and in 1923 left to live with him in Oubangui-Chari, the current Central African Republic, where they remained until 1931. Thanks to her musical knowledge, she helped him to decipher the drummed and whistled language of the Banda and Mandja population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Vialle
Jane or Jeanne Vialle (1906–1953) was a French journalist, politician and women's rights activist.Richard A. Bradshaw and Juan Fandos RiusJane Vialle ''Dictionary of African Biography'', New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Accessed on 5 July 2020. She was a member of the French Resistance, and one of the first two black female senators in France.Annette Joseph-GabrielHate heaped on black heroines of the French Resistance would look familiar to AOC and Rashida Tlaib ''The Conversation'', 21 May 2019. Accessed 5 July 2020.Jeanne/Jane Vialle (1906-1953) ''Black Past'', 8 March 2017. Accessed 5 July 2020. Life Jeanne Vialle was born in 1906 in Ouesco in |
2020 French Senate Election
Senatorial elections were held on 27 September 2020 to pick 172 of the 348 seats in the Senate of the French Fifth Republic. The elections were a modest victory for the centre-right Republicans. The environmentalist Europe Ecology – The Greens party entered the upper chamber, while Emmanuel Macron's centrist La République En Marche! party maintained their position, despite losses in the 2020 French municipal elections earlier in the year. The far-right National Rally The National Rally (french: Rassemblement National, ; RN), until 2018 known as the National Front (french: link=no, Front National, ; FN), is a Far-right politics, far-rightAbridged list of reliable sources that refer to National Rally as fa ... kept their one seat, and the Corsican nationalists gained their first seat as well. Elected senators References {{French Senate Senate (France) elections 2020 elections in France September 2020 events in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 French Senate Election
Senatorial elections have been held on 24 September 2017 to renew 170 of 348 seats in the Senate (France), Senate of the French Fifth Republic. Organization Senators concerned Since 2011, the Senate (France), French Senate has been renewed, using two series, every three years. The senatorial elections on 24 September 2017 concern 170 outgoing senators within series 1 across 44 constituencies in addition to half the seats of senators representing French residents overseas. Specifically, the renewal includes seats representing 38 metropolitan France, metropolitan departments of France, departments numbered between 37 (Indre-et-Loire) and 66 (Pyrénées-Orientales), the departments of Île-de-France, four overseas departments (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, and Mayotte), two overseas collectivities (Saint Pierre and Miquelon and New Caledonia), and 6 of 12 sieges of senators representing French residents overseas. Of these seats, 136 are elected proportionally and 34 by major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 French Senate Election
The 2014 French senate election was held on 28 September 2014 and featured results which saw the Senate (France), 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, 2011 French senate election, which was the first time since the foundation of the French Fifth Republic, 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 (France), Socialist Party's senate victory in 2011. The Far-right National Rally (France), National Front party also claimed its first two seats in the senate election, which their leader Marine Le Pen described as "a histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
