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2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th Constituency By-election
A by-election was held in Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency on 11 March 2018, with a second round on 18 March as no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was prompted after the Constitutional Council (France), Constitutional Council invalidated the election of Joël Aviragnet, candidate of the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party (PS), in the 2017 French legislative election, June 2017 legislative elections on 18 December 2017. Aviragnet was re-elected by a massive margin in the second round rematch against Montsarrat, securing over 70% of valid votes and winning by a margin 40 points larger than in June 2017. Background Following the second round of the 2017 French legislative election, 2017 legislative election in Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency on 18 June, Michel Montsarrat, candidate of La République En Marche! defeated by 91 votes, filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council (France), Constitutional Council appealing the electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Belloubet
Nicole Belloubet (born 15 June 1955) is a French jurist and politician who served as Minister of National Education in the government of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in 2024. A former member of the Socialist Party (PS), Belloubet served as Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 21 June 2017 to 6 July 2020; she had been appointed by President Emmanuel Macron following the resignation of François Bayrou. She previously served on the Constitutional Council, to which she was appointed in 2013 by Jean-Pierre Bel, President of the Senate. Early life and education Belloubet was born to an engineer from a modest farming family and the manager of a small Parisian hotel. Academic career Belloubet began her career in teaching before becoming, at the age of 42, rector of the University of Limoges. She served in that office between 1997 and 2000 before becoming rector of the Academy of Toulouse until 2005. In 2005, she resigned from her post to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valérie Rabault
Valérie Rabault (French: help:IPA/French, [valeʁi ʁabo]; born 25 April 1973) is a French engineer and politician of the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party (PS) who has presided over the Socialist group, associated (National Assembly), Socialists and affiliated group in the National Assembly (France), National Assembly since 2018. She has represented the Tarn-et-Garonne's 1st constituency, 1st constituency of the Tarn-et-Garonne Departments of France, department in French Parliament, Parliament from 2012 French legislative election, 2012 to 2024. She was vice president of the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024. Early life and career Rabault attended the École des ponts ParisTech from 1994 to 1998. At the same time, she obtained an MBA from the Collège des Ingénieurs in 1998. Rabault entered the private sector as a construction manager and then became involved in project financing. She then practiced her professional activity in the banking sector by becoming an insp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly (France)
The National Assembly (, ) is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral French Parliament under the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (France), Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known as () or deputies. There are 577 , each elected by a single-member Constituencies of the National Assembly of France, constituency (at least one per Departments of France, department) through a two-round system; thus, 289 seats are required for a majority. The List of presidents of the National Assembly of France, president of the National Assembly, currently Yaël Braun-Pivet, presides over the body. The officeholder is usually a member of the largest party represented, assisted by vice presidents from across the represented political spectrum. The National Assembly's term is five years; however, the president of France may dissolve the assembly, thereby calling for early elections, unless it has been dissolved in the preceding twelve m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occitanie (administrative Region)
Occitania ( ; ; ) is the southernmost administrative region of metropolitan France excluding Corsica, located on the southwest of the country, created on 1 January 2016 from the former regions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. The Council of State approved Occitania as the new name of the region on 28 September 2016, coming into effect on 30 September 2016. The modern administrative region is named after the larger cultural and historical region of Occitania, which corresponds with the southern third of France. The region of Occitania as it is today covers a territory similar to that ruled by the Counts of Toulouse in the 12th and 13th centuries. The banner of arms of the Counts of Toulouse, known colloquially as the Occitan cross, is used by the modern region and is also a popular cultural symbol. In 2022, Occitania had a population of 6,080,731. Toponymy Enacted in 2014, the territorial reform of French regions had been subject to debate for many years. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Delga
Carole Delga (; born 19 August 1971) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as the President of the Regional Council of Occitania since 2016. Delga is considered to be a potential candidate in the 2027 French presidential election. Political career Delga has been a member of the Socialist Party since 2004. Member of the National Assembly, 2012–2017 From 2012 until 2017, Delga was a member of the National Assembly, where she served on the Finance Committee (2012–2014) and the Defence Committee (2015–2017). In 2014, Delga briefly served as Secretary of State for Trade, Crafts, Consumer and Social Economy and Solidarity under Minister of Finance and Public Accounts Michel Sapin in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls; she replaced Valérie Fourneyron who had resigned for health reasons. In June 2015, she left the government to launch her campaign for regional elections; she was replaced by Martine Pinville. President of Occi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encausse-les-Thermes
Encausse-les-Thermes () is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Haute-Garonne department The following is a list of the 586 communes in the French department of Haute-Garonne. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): References Communes of Haute-Garonne {{SaintGaudens-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rieumes
Rieumes (; ) is a commune in France, commune in the Haute-Garonne Departments of France, department in southwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Haute-Garonne department *Maquis de Rieumes References Communes of Haute-Garonne {{Muret-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickaël Nogal
Mickaël Nogal (born 26 November 1990) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2022, representing Haute-Garonne's 4th constituency. Political career Nogal defeated Liêm Hoang-Ngoc of La France Insoumise to win his seat in the 2017 election. In parliament, Nogal served as member of the Committee on European Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the parliamentary friendship groups with Colombia, Spain and Venezuela. In December 2018, Nogal was appointed by Prime Minister Édouard Philippe to a conduct 6-month parliamentary mission – in support of ministers Jacqueline Gourault and Julien Denormandie – on the role of estate agencies, with the mandate to "simplify the rental of housing and improve relations between landlords and tenants." In July 2019, Nogal voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Collomb
Gérard Collomb OQ (; 20 June 1947 – 25 November 2023) was a French politician who served as Mayor of Lyon from 2001 to 2017 and again from 2018 until 2020. He joined La République En Marche! (LREM) in 2017, when he left the Socialist Party (PS), which he had joined in 1969. Collomb was Minister of the Interior in the first and second government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2017 to 2018. Disagreements with President Emmanuel Macron over immigration policy led him to resign and return as Mayor of Lyon. He was a councillor for both the City of Lyon and Metropolis of Lyon from 2020 until his death in 2023. Political career Local politics Collomb was elected as a Socialist municipal councillor for the 9th arrondissement of Lyon in the 1977 French municipal elections, and was re-elected six times since then. In 1981, aged 34, he was elected to the French National Assembly. He was re-elected in 1986 but lost his seat in 1988. From 1989 on, he led by the municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Michel Blanquer
Jean-Michel Blanquer (; born 4 December 1964) is a French jurist and government official serving as Minister of National Education under Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex from 2017 to 2022. Education and early career Born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, he obtained a doctorate in law from Panthéon-Assas University and a master's degree in politics from Sciences Po. From 1996 to 1998, he was a professor in civil law at Sciences Po Lille. From 1998 to 2004, he was director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the New Sorbonne University. From 2009 to 2012, Blanquer served as the director general of secondary and junior school education under then Minister of National Education Luc Chatel. In 2013, he became president of ESSEC Business School. Minister of National Education On 15 May 2017, Blanquer was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron to be Minister of National Education in the first Philippe government. He retained the position on 17 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genevieve Darrieussecq
Genevieve (; ; also called ''Genovefa'' and ''Genofeva''; 419/422 AD – 502/512 AD) was a consecrated virgin, and is one of the two patron saints of Paris in the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. Her feast day is on 3 January. Recognized for her religious devotion at a young age, she met Germanus of Auxerre and Lupus of Troyes when she was a child and dedicated herself to a virginal life. Miracles and healings began to happen around her early on and she became known for changing the weather. She moved from Nanterre, her hometown, to Paris, after her parents died and became known for her piety, healings, and miracles, although the residents of Paris resented her and would have killed her if not for Germanus' interventions. Her prayers saved Paris from being destroyed by the Huns under Attila in 451 and other wars; her organisation of the city's women was called a "prayer marathon" and Genevieve's "most famous feat". She was involved in two major construction projects i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
