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Assemblée Nationale
The National Assembly (, ) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known as () or deputies. There are 577 , each elected by a single-member constituency (at least one per department) through a two-round system; thus, 289 seats are required for a majority. The 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 months. This measure has become rarer since the 2000 French constitutional referendum reduced the presidential term from seven to five years; in the four elections between 2002 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17th Legislature Of The French Fifth Republic
The 17th legislature of the Fifth French Republic (French language, French: ''XVIIe législature de la Cinquième République française'') was elected in the 2024 French legislative election. On July 18, 2024, Yaël Braun-Pivet was re-elected to serve as President of the National Assembly during this legislature. On 4 December 2024, the Barnier government was deposed in a motion of no confidence by 331 votes. Members Notes References {{Legislatures of the French Fifth Republic National Assembly (France) 2024 French legislative election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Republicans (France)
The Republicans (, ; LR) is a liberal-conservative List of political parties in France, political party in France, largely inspired by the tradition of Gaullism. The party was formed in 2015 as the refoundation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), which had been established in 2002 under the leadership of the then-president of France, Jacques Chirac. LR is a member of the Centrist Democrat International and the European People's Party, and sits in the European People's Party Group in the European Parliament. The UMP used to be one of the two major party, major political parties in the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic, along with the centre-left Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party, before being eclipsed by the National Rally and Renaissance (French political party), Renaissance. The LR candidate in the 2017 French presidential election, 2017 presidential election, former Prime Minister François Fillon, placed third in the first round, with 20.0% of the vote. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Anticapitalist Party
The New Anticapitalist Party ( , NPA ) is a far-left political party in France founded in February 2009. The party launched with 9,200 members and was intended to unify the fractured movements of the French radical Left, and attract new activists drawing on the combined strength of far-left parties in the 2002 presidential elections, where they achieved 10.44% of the vote and 7% in 2007. The political party is closely associated with postal worker Olivier Besancenot, the main spokesman of the former Trotskyist party, the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), the NPA's main predecessor. In March 2011, and were elected the main spokespersons of the NPA. In May 2012, Myriam Martin supported the candidate of the Left Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2012 presidential election instead of the NPA candidate, a worker and union activist at Ford's car plant in Bordeaux, Philippe Poutou, who came eighth in the first round with 411,160 votes, 1.15% of the total votes. She left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Party (France)
The Left Party (French: ', PG) is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left, Democratic socialism, democratic socialist political party in France, founded in 2009 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marc Dolez after their departure from the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party (PS). The PG claims to bring together personalities and groups from different political traditions; it claims a socialist, ecologist and Republicanism, republican orientation. Politically located between the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party and the French Communist Party, the Left Party intends to federate all the sensitivities of the anti-Economic liberalism, liberal left—which they also call "the other left"—within the same alliance. In 2008, the PG joined forces with the Communist Party of the United Left and six other left-wing and far-left organizations in the coalition of the Left Front (France), Left Front, of which Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the candidate for the president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La France Insoumise
La France Insoumise (LFI or FI; , ) is a left-wing political party in France. It was launched in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former co-president of the Left Party (PG). It aims to implement the eco-socialist and democratic socialist programme (). The party utilises the lower case Greek letter phi as its logotype. The party nominated Mélenchon as its candidate for the 2017 French presidential election. He came fourth in the first round, receiving 19.6% of the vote and failing to qualify for the second round by around 2%. After the 2017 French legislative election, it formed a parliamentary group of 17 members of the National Assembly, with Mélenchon as the group's president. In the 2019 European Parliament election in France, it won six seats, below its expectations. In 2022, Mélenchon again became the party's candidate for president, and later Christiane Taubira, winner of the 2022 French People's Primary, endorsed Mé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La France Insoumise Group
The La France insoumise – New Popular Front group () is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly founded following the 2017 legislative election. It is chaired by Mathilde Panot since 2021, having previously been led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon between 2017 and 2021. As of 2023, the group, which includes representatives of La France Insoumise (FI) and other left-wing parties, has seventy five members. History In the 2017 legislative election, La France Insoumise (FI), the movement founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon prior to the presidential election, failed to secure an alliance with the French Communist Party (PCF) permitting common investitures between the two movements. Both subsequently decided to form separate parliamentary groups; Chassaigne, president of the Democratic and Republican Left group (GDR), declared that his deputies would not actively oppose the FI deputies in the National Assembly. Mélenchon's wish to impose voting discipline upon his group and dema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Rally Group
The National Rally group () is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly of France including representatives of the National Rally and League of the South The League of the South (LS) is an American White nationalism, white nationalist, Neo-Confederates, neo-Confederate, White supremacy, white supremacist organization that says its goal is "a free and independent Southern republic". Headquarte ... formed after the 2022 legislative election. The group has been chaired by Marine Le Pen since its creation on June 28, 2022. The RN parliamentary party was the largest single opposition party in the lower house from 2022 to 2024, but was much smaller than the NUPES alliance. List of presidents Historical membership References {{reflist National Assembly (France) Parliamentary groups in France National Rally (France) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonapartist Central Committee
The Bonapartist Central Committee (, CCB) is a political party on the French island of Corsica, operating mainly in Ajaccio. It was founded in 1908. History The CCB in its first few years heavily relied on the personality of Dominique Pugliesi-Conti, who served as Mayor of Ajaccio from 1904 to 1910. Pugliesi-Conti was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly (France), National Assembly in 1910 French legislative election, 1910 and openly declared his support for the Republicanism in France, republic, resulting in numerous monarchist Bonapartists challenging him for his seat in 1914. Pugliesi-Conti served in the National Assembly until he failed to win re-election in 1919 French legislative election, 1919. Following the Pugliesi-Conti era, the party was led into elections by Dominique Paoli (who served as Mayor of Ajaccio from 1925 to May 1931 and from 1934 to 1943), with industrialist François Coty (who served as a Senate (France), senator from Corsica from 1923 to 1924 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrist Alliance
The Centrist Alliance () (AC) is a centrist political party in France. It was founded in June 2009 by Jean Arthuis, a former member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) and currently Member of European Parliament, where he also serves as chair of the Committee on Budgets. The party is seen as a successor to Arthuis' Rally the Centrists (''Rassembler les centristes'') political association; its main tenet was to re-create the UDF, which was dissolved upon creation of the MoDem and the New Centre. Elected officials *Members of the European parliament: Jean Arthuis *Deputies: Thierry Benoit, Philippe Folliot *Senators: Muguette Dini, Yves Détraigne, Françoise Férat, Adrien Giraud, Joseph Kergueris, Jean-Claude Merceron, Anne-Marie Payet, Daniel Soulage, François Zocchetto. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miscellaneous Right
Miscellaneous right (', ''DVD'') in France refers to centre-right or right-wing candidates who are not members of any large party. This can include members of small right-wing parties, dissidents expelled from their party for running against their party's candidate, or candidates who were never formal members of a party. Numerous ' candidates are elected at both local and national levels. See also * Independent conservative, a term used in the United Kingdom and Canada as a label for independent candidates with conservative views *Independent Liberal (Australia), a member of the Liberal Party of Australia who either contests an election or sits in a legislature as an independent * Independent Republican (United States), a term used in the United States for independent candidates who loosely identify with the ideals of the national Republican Party but who choose not to formally affiliate with the party *Miscellaneous centre Miscellaneous centre (''Divers centre'', ''DVC'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Centrists
The Centrists (, , ), known as The Centrists – New Centre ( , ) since 2018, formerly known as New Centre (, ) and European Social Liberal Party ( , ), is a centre-right political party in France formed by the members of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) – including 18 of the 29 members of the UDF in the National Assembly) – who did not agree with François Bayrou's decision to found the Democratic Movement (MoDem) and wanted to support the newly-elected president Nicolas Sarkozy, continuing the UDF–Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) alliance. The party was founded on 29 May 2007 during a press conference and renamed on 11 December 2016. History The Centrists trace their history to the major centrist and Christian-democratic political parties in the Fourth and Fifth Republics. The parties maintained a separate existence from the Gaullist parties in the early years of the Fifth Republic primarily because of de Gaulle's strong opposition to European integration. However ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horizons (political Party)
Horizons () is a centre-right political party in France founded in October 2021 by Édouard Philippe, at the time mayor of Le Havre and former Prime Minister of France. The party was created with the purpose of attracting centre-right support for Emmanuel Macron for the 2022 French presidential election. It seeks to appeal to the secular and pro-European right, with a "social calling". Ahead of the 2022 legislative election, it formed a coalition with two other main centrist parties – Democratic Movement (MoDem) and La République En Marche! (LREM) – to coordinate which candidates it presents. Notable members Members of Parliament Elected in the 2022 French legislative election: Mayors and MEPs * Arnaud Robinet, mayor of Reims * Édouard Philippe, mayor of Le Havre * Hubert Falco, mayor of Toulon * Christian Estrosi, mayor of Nice * Christophe Béchu, mayor of Angers * Delphine Bürkli, mayor of the 9th arrondissement of Paris * Gilles Boyer, member of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
