The second constituency for French residents overseas (French: ''Deuxième circonscription des Français établis hors de France'') is one of eleven constituencies representing French citizens living abroad. It was created by the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies and elects, since

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, one representative to the

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. It represents all French citizens living abroad in Mexico, the Caribbean (except Puerto Rico), South America and Central America. It is the least populous constituency of its kind, containing 89,012 registered French voters as of 2022.

Area

It covers all French citizens living in Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Thus it covers every country in the Americas – other than Canada and the United States, which together constitute the First constituency. Nor does it include the

French overseas departments and territories Overseas France (french: France d'outre-mer) consists of 13 French-administered territories outside Europe, mostly the remains of the French colonial empire that chose to remain a part of the French state under various statuses after decoloni ...

in the Americas, which are part of France and form constituencies of their own:

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Saint Pierre and Miquelon (), officially the Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (french: link=no, Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon ), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in t ...

( one constituency), Guadeloupe (four),

Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in ...

(four) and

French Guiana French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. ...

(two). It is the least populous constituency of its kind, as it contained, as of New Year's Day 2011, 92,633 registered French voters. This constituency elected its first ever representative at the

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Deputies

National Assembly elections

2023 by-election

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2022

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2017

, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Candidate ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Party ! colspan="2" , 1st round ! colspan="2" , 2nd round , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! width="75" , Votes ! width="30" , % ! width="75" , Votes ! width="30" , % , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Paula Forteza , style="text-align:left;" , La Republique En Marche! , REM , , 43.17% , , 60.92% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Sergio Coronado , style="text-align:left;" ,

Europe Ecology – The Greens Europe Ecology – The Greens (french: Europe Écologie Les Verts , EELV ) is a centre-left to left-wing green political party in France. The party is a member of the European Green Party. The party was formed on 13 November 2010 from the merge ...

- FI- PP , EELV , , 23.61% , , 39.08% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Pascal Drouhaud , style="text-align:left;" , The Republicans , LR , , 11.18% , colspan=2 rowspan=13 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Charles-Henry Chenut , style="text-align:left;" ,

Union of Democrats and Independents The Union of Democrats and Independents (french: Union des démocrates et indépendants, UDI) 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 grou ...

, UDI , , 8.28% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Thierry Rignol , style="text-align:left;" ,

Miscellaneous right Miscellaneous right (', ''DVD'') in France refers to 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 candi ...

, DVD , , 4.45% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Jean-Marc Millet , style="text-align:left;" , National Front , FN , , 2.53% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Florence Baillon , style="text-align:left;" ,

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...

, PS , , 2.37% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Martin Biurrun , style="text-align:left;" , Miscellaneous right , DVD , , 1.39% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Jacques Werckmann , style="text-align:left;" ,

Independent Ecological Movement The Independent Ecological Movement (french: Mouvement écologiste indépendant) is a political party in France founded by Antoine Waechter, former presidential candidate of The Greens in 1994. The MEI hoped to replace the Greens as the major gr ...

, MEI , , 0.95% , - , style="background-color:#0b7d86" , , align="left" , Jean-Philippe Noël , align="left" , Popular Republican Union , UPR , , 0.90% , - , style="background-color:" , , align="left" , Lawrence Perea , align="left" ,

Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...

, PCF , , 0.50% , - , style="background-color:" , , align="left" , Hai-Dang Ha-Thuc , colspan=2 align="left" , #MyVoice , , 0.49% , - , style="background-color:" , , align="left" , Patricio Arenas , colspan=2 align="left" , Citizens , , 0.15% , - , style="background-color:" , , align="left" , Palmira Pozo , colspan=2 align="left" ,

Sans étiquette An independent or non-partisan politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views th ...

, , 0.02% , - , style="background-color:" , , align="left" , Alain Videau , colspan=2 align="left" , Sans étiquette , , 0.01% , - , colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , - style="font-weight:bold" , colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Total , , 100% , , 100% , - , colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , - , colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Registered voters , , style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , , style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , - , colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Blank ballots , , 0.31% , , 2.79% , - , colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Null ballots , , 0.68% , , 0.82% , - , colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Turnout , , 15.48% , , 12.47% , - , colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Abstentions , , 84.52% , , 87.53%

2012

Candidates

The list of candidates was officially finalised on 14 May. There were twelve candidates: The

Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right List of political parties in France, political party in France that was one of the two major party, major contemporary political pa ...

chose Pascal Drouhaud, formerly the party's director of international relations.

Europe Écologie–The Greens Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...

chose Sergio Coronado (born in Chile and raised in Argentina), with Cécile Lavergne as his deputy (''suppléante''). He was a spokesman for

Eva Joly Eva Joly (; born Gro Eva Farseth; 5 December 1943) is a Norwegian-born French ''juge d'instruction'' (magistrate) and politician for Europe Écologie–The Greens. She represented that party as a candidate for the presidency of France in the 2012 ...

during the

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campaign."Législatives : tous les résultats des Français de l'étranger"
''Le Nouvel Observateur'', 4 June 2012 Coronado was endorsed by the

, which did not presenting a candidate of its own. Raquel Garrido, a member of the Left Party, was the chosen candidate for the Left Front, of which she was a co-founder and which also included the

French Communist Party The French Communist Party (french: Parti communiste français, ''PCF'' ; ) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit in the European Un ...

. A lawyer, she was described as " Jean-Luc Mélenchon's international spokeswoman". Born in Chile, she moved to France with her parents after the

1973 Chilean coup d'état The 1973 Chilean coup d'état Enciclopedia Virtual > Historia > Historia de Chile > Del gobierno militar a la democracia" on LaTercera.cl. Retrieved 22 September 2006. In October 1972, Chile suffered the first of many strikes. Among the par ...

. In France, she became a leader of the National Union of Students, then vice-president of SOS Racisme. She was also in charge of international relations at the

Workers' Force The General Confederation of Labor - Workers' Force (french: Confédération Générale du Travail - Force Ouvrière, or simply , FO), is one of the five major union confederations in France. In terms of following, it is the third behind the CGT ...

union federation, and represented France at the

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. Her deputy (''suppléant'') was singer-songwriter Nilda Fernández. The National Front chose Alain-Gérard Georgi-Samaran, a resident of Paraguay who has been "an entrepreneur in South America for more than thirty years". Jean-Marie Matten was his deputy (''suppléant''). The centre-right Radical Party and the centrist Republican, Ecologist and Social Alliance jointly chose Joel Doglioni, a resident of Bogota, as their candidate. Doglioni was an adviser to France's foreign trade. Jean-Jacques Gaudiot was his deputy (''suppléant''). The centre-left

Radical Party of the Left The Radical Party of the Left (french: Parti radical de gauche, PRG) is a social-liberal political party in France. A party in the Radical tradition, since 1972 the PRG was a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France, the Soc ...

chose Thérèse Marianne-Pépin. Catherine Prost was her deputy (''suppléante''). Solidarity and Progress, the French branch of the

LaRouche movement The LaRouche movement is a political and cultural network promoting the late Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas. It has included many organizations and companies around the world, which campaign, gather information and publish books and periodicals ...

, was represented by Cédric Manscour, with Silvia Santorio as his deputy (''suppléante''). Françoise Lindemann, affiliated to the Union for a Popular Movement, ran as an independent candidate against the party's candidate. A resident of Brazil, she owned and ran a hotel outside

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...

. Her deputy (''suppléant'') was Francis Javelly."2eme circonscription : Amérique Latine"
''Le Petit Journal'' Charles-Henry Chenut, head of a law firm in Brazil, presented himself as an independent centrist candidate. His deputy was Emmanuel Henriet. Palmira Pozo was an independent candidate. She proposed to allow her constituents to dictate her vote on every bill in Parliament. Francis Le Suave was her deputy."Présentation de Palmira Pozo"
''Le Petit Journal'' Jean-Marc Millet was an independent candidate, representing his France Expat Collective Vision (''Collectif Vision France Expat'') movement. Philippe Gillier was his deputy. Alain Terrien was an independent candidate, with Bertrang Lalague as his deputy.

Results

Turnout for the first round was low throughout the constituency, with a low point of 7% in Saint Lucia (where 34 of the 488 registered French citizens voted) and a high point of just 39.8% in El Salvador. Turnout was also comparatively high in Cuba (38.1%). Elsewhere, it was below 30%. The smallest turnout in numeric terms was in Suriname, where only 17 citizens voted, out of 148 (11.5%).Official results of the first round
French Ministry for Foreign Affairs Sergio Coronado, the candidate of the Greens backed by the Socialist Party, obtained a comfortable lead in the first round. He finished first in almost every country (except the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay and Venezuela), and obtained 13 of the 17 votes cast in Suriname (76.47%). The electorate on the mainstream right was split between the UMP-endorsed candidate, Pascal Drouhaud, and dissident candidate Françoise Lindemann, who succeeded in obtaining over 16% of the vote to finish third. Raquel Garrido, the Left Front's international spokeswoman, obtained her party's joint best result abroad (fourth with 8.6%), matched by Juliette Estivil in the fifth constituency. Coronado went on to win the second round.

Presidential elections

2017

En Marche! Renaissance (RE), previously known as La République En Marche ! (frequently abbreviated LREM, LaREM or REM; translated as "The Republic on the Move" or "Republic Forward"), or sometimes called simply En Marche ! () as its original name, is a l ...

, EM , , 37.97% , , 89.30% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

François Fillon François Charles Armand Fillon (; born 4 March 1954) 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 (previously known as the Union ...

, style="text-align:left;" , The Republicans , LR , , 26.28% , colspan=2 rowspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Jean-Luc Mélenchon , style="text-align:left;" ,

La France insoumise La France Insoumise (FI or LFI; ; "France Unbowed") is a left-wing populist political party in France, 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 ...

, FI , , 19.38% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Marine Le Pen , style="text-align:left;" , National Front , FN , , 6.97% , , 10.70% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Benoît Hamon Benoît Hamon (; born 26 June 1967) is a French politician known for his former role within the Socialist Party (PS) and Party of European Socialists (PES) and his political party Génération.s. Hamon joined the Socialist Party in 1988 and ...

, style="text-align:left;" ,

, PS , , 5.98% , colspan=2 rowspan=7 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , - , style="background-color:#0b7d86" , , align="left" , François Asselineau , align="left" , Popular Republican Union , UPR , , 1.01% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (; born 7 March 1961), sometimes referred to by his initials NDA, is a French politician serving since 2008 as President of minor party Debout la France. He is its only member of the National Assembly, elected for Essonne' ...

, style="text-align:left;" ,

Debout la France Debout la France (, ; DLF) is a French political party founded by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in 1999 under the name Debout la République (''Republic Arise'', DLR) as the "genuine Gaullist" branch of the Rally for the Republic (RPR). It was relaunche ...

, DLF , , 0.90% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Philippe Poutou , style="text-align:left;" , New Anticapitalist Party , NPA , , 0.63% , - , style="background-color:#FFA54C;" , , align="left" ,

Jean Lassalle Jean Lassalle (; oc, Joan de Lassala; born 3 May 1955) is a French politician who represented the 4th constituency of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2022. A former member of the Democratic Movement ...

, colspan=2 align="left" ,

Résistons! Jean Lassalle (; oc, Joan de Lassala; born 3 May 1955) is a French politician who represented the 4th constituency of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2022. A former member of the Democratic Movement ...

, , 0.47% , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Nathalie Arthaud Nathalie Yvonne Thérèse Arthaud (; born 23 February 1970) is a French secondary school (lycée) economics teacher and politician. Since 2008, she has served as the spokesperson for the Lutte Ouvrière (Workers' Struggle), a communist party, and ...

, style="text-align:left;" ,

Lutte Ouvrière The French Trotskyist political party Union Communiste (Communist Union) is usually known as Lutte Ouvrière (Workers' Struggle, ), after the name of its weekly paper. Arlette Laguiller has been the party's spokeswoman since 1973 and ran in each ...

, LO , , 0.21% , - , style="background-color:" , , align="left" ,

Jacques Cheminade Jacques Cheminade (; born 20 August 1941) is a French-Argentinian political activist. He is the head of Solidarity and Progress, the French arm of the LaRouche movement, and has thrice run for President of France. Education and professional li ...

, align="left" , Solidarity and Progress , S&P , , 0.19% , - , colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , - style="font-weight:bold" , colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Total , , 100% , , 100%

References

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