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Éric Ciotti
Éric Ciotti ( or , ; born 28 September 1965) is a French politician who led The Republicans (LR) from 2022 to 2024. He has represented Alpes-Maritimes's 1st constituency in the National Assembly since the 2007 legislative election. Once a member of The Republicans' right-wing, he was seeking to distance the party from Emmanuel Macron's presidency. He left The Republicans in 2024, and is now the leader of the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) party and parliamentary group. Ciotti 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. He sought the party's nomination for the 2022 presidential election at its 2021 congress; he unexpectedly placed first in the first round of voting, but was defeated by centre-right candidate Valérie Pécresse in the second round. In December 2022, following Pécresse's historic loss in the presidential ele ...
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UDR Group
The UDR group (), formerly the On the Right group (, AD!) is a French Parliamentary group, political group in the French National Assembly, National Assembly created at the beginning of the 17th legislature of the French Fifth Republic, 17th legislature (2024–present). It is presided by Éric Ciotti, and groups politicians of the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR). Creation The parliamentary group On the Right was founded by The Republicans (France), The Republicans president Éric Ciotti following the 2024 French legislative election, 2024 legislative election before which a 2024 The Republicans crisis, serious crisis broke out within his own The Republicans party. The new group with 16 Deputy (France), deputies split from Republican Right group, The Republicans group, renamed the Republican Right group in 2024. The group was renamed to the UDR group on 11 September 2024, taking the name of Ciotti's Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) party. Composition * Alexa ...
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2007 French Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in France on 10 June and 17 June 2007 to elect the 13th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, a few weeks after the presidential election run-off on 6 May. 7,639 candidates stood for 577 seats, including France's overseas possessions. Early first-round results projected a large majority for President Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and its allies; however, second-round results showed a closer race and a stronger left. Nevertheless, the right retained its majority from 2002 despite losing some 40 seats to the Socialists. Taking place so shortly after the presidential poll, these elections provided the newly elected president with a legislative majority in line with his political objectives – as was the case in 2002, when presidential victor Jacques Chirac's UMP party received a large majority in the legislative elections. It is the first time since the 1978 elections that the governing coalition has been returned after ...
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Canton Of Nice-1
The canton of Nice-1 is an administrative division of the Alpes-Maritimes department, southeastern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Nice. It consists of the following communes: #Nice Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one millionCantons of Alpes-Maritimes ...
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Gaston Franco
Gaston Franco (born 4 February 1944 in Roquebillière, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the South-East France constituency. Franco represented Alpes Maritimes' 5th constituency in the National Assembly as a member of the Rally for the Republic between 1993 and 1997. In addition, he is Mayor of Saint-Martin-Vésubie since 1989 and represented the Canton of Saint-Martin-Vésubie in the General Council until he resigned in 2008 to join the cabinet of the Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi. In the 2009 European elections, he was the fourth candidate on the Union for a Popular Movement list in the South-East region, and was elected to the European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers ...
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Saint-Martin-Vésubie
Saint-Martin-Vésubie (; Vivaro-Alpine: ''Sant Martin de Lantosca''; ) is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. Established on the edge of a glacial plate, it had a population of 1,327 in 2008. It was named after the Vésubie, a local river. History Early years San Martin first appears in recorded history in the 12th century, although there are archaeological remnants of a Romanized indigenous population dating back to the 1st century. The medieval castrum extends along a cliff overlooking Valley of the Madonna through which ran the old Salt Road that extended from the Piedmont to the port city of Nice. It was part of the historic County of Nice until 1860 as ''San Martino Vesubia''. In their 1997 book "The Templar Revelation," Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince write that Saint-Martin-de-Vésubie was the "site of a legendary massacre of Templars in 1308." Recent times In World War II, the Alpes-Maritimes were oc ...
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2024 The Republicans Alliance Crisis
The Republican alliance crisis () was triggered by the formation of the Union of the Rights for the Republic, an alliance between Éric Ciotti, the president of The Republicans (LR), and the National Rally (RN) ahead of the 2024 French legislative election. LR MPs and senators questioned claims the alliance was revolutionary. The senior members unanimously removed its president for unsanctioned negotiations and disrespect for party statutes, which was unprecedented in France. This broke the traditional '' cordon sanitaire'' led by Chirac, against the National Rally. Two opposing groups of Republican candidates were nominated. Its national investiture commission (CNI) nominated 400, including all outgoing MPs except Ciotti and Christelle d'Intorni. Ciotti nominated around 60, labeled by the French Ministry of the Interior the Union of the Far-Right, half not LR members, and petitioned RN candidates in other constituencies. Before parliament was dissolved, media businessman ...
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France 24
France 24 ( in French) is a French state-owned publicly funded international news television network based in Paris. Its channels, broadcast in French, English, Arabic and Spanish, are aimed at the overseas market. Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, the service started on 6 December 2006. It is aimed at a worldwide market and is generally broadcast by pay television providers around the world, but additionally, in 2010, France 24 began broadcasting online through its own iPhone and Android apps. It is a provider of live streaming world news which can be viewed via its website, YouTube, and various mobile devices and digital media players. The stated mission of the channels is to "provide a global public service and a common editorial stance". Since 2008 the channel has been wholly owned by the French government, via its holding company France Médias Monde, having bought out the minority share of the former partners: Groupe TF1 and France Télévisions. ...
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2024 French Legislative Election
Legislative elections in France, Legislative elections were held in France on 30 June and 7 July 2024 (and one day earlier for some voters outside of metropolitan France) to elect all 577 Deputy (France), members of the 17th legislature of the French Fifth Republic, 17th National Assembly (France), National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. The election followed the Dissolution of parliament#France, dissolution of the National Assembly by President Emmanuel Macron, triggering a snap election after the National Rally (RN) made substantial gains and Macron's ''Besoin d'Europe'' Party-list proportional representation, electoral list lost a significant number of seats in the 2024 European Parliament election in France, 2024 European Parliament election. In the first round of the election, the National Rally and candidates jointly backed by Éric Ciotti of The Republicans (France), The Republicans (LR) led with 33.21% of the vote, followed by the parties of the New Popular Fro ...
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National Rally
The National Rally (, , RN), known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018 (, , FN), is a French far-right politics, far-right political party, described as right-wing populist and French nationalism, nationalist. It is the single largest National Rally group (National Assembly), parliamentary opposition party in the National Assembly (France), National Assembly since 2022. It Opposition to immigration, opposes immigration, advocating significant cuts to legal immigration, protection of French identity, and stricter control of illegal immigration. The party advocates a "more balanced" and "independent" French foreign policy, opposing French military intervention in Africa while supporting France leaving NATO's integrated command. It also supports reform of the European Union (EU), economic interventionism, protectionism, and zero tolerance for breaches of Law and order (politics), law and order. The party was founded in 1972 by the Ordre Nouveau (1960s), Ordre Nouveau to be t ...
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Valérie Pécresse
Valérie Anne Émilie Pécresse (; Birth name, née Roux ; 14 July 1967) is a French politician who has been the President of the Regional Council (France), President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2015. A member of The Republicans (France), The Republicans, she previously served as Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (France), Minister of Higher Education and Research from 2007 to 2011 and List of Budget Ministers of France, Minister of the Budget and List of government spokespeople of France, Government Spokeswoman from 2011 to 2012 under Prime Minister François Fillon. Pécresse represented the Yvelines's 2nd constituency, 2nd constituency of Yvelines in the National Assembly (France), National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 and again from 2012 until 2016. Pécresse was voted as the Republicans' nominee for the 2022 French presidential election, defeating Éric Ciotti in the 2021 The Republicans congress, party primary. She came fifth in the ele ...
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2021 The Republicans Congress
The 2021 The Republicans (LR) congress, also known as the Congress for France ( French: ''Congrès pour la France''), was an organised internal primary held from 1 to 4 December. It was organised by the party in order to nominate the candidate that would represent it in the 2022 presidential election. Valérie Pécresse was chosen as the party's presidential nominee in a two-round voting process. Context After François Fillon failed to reach the second round in the 2017 presidential election, Les Republicains were in opposition to centrist President Emmanuel Macron, who recruited several LR figures and adopted similar policies in some regards, especially around social policy. After a major failure in the 2019 European elections, Les Républicains did well in the 2020 municipal elections as well as in the 2021 regional and departmental elections. The party was divided on the method of selecting its candidate for the 2022 presidential election. In 2016, the party had used ...
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2022 French Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in France on 10 and 24 April 2022. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a Two-round system, runoff was held, in which Emmanuel Macron defeated Marine Le Pen and was re-elected as President of France. Macron, from La République En Marche! (LREM), had defeated Le Pen, leader of the National Rally, once already in the 2017 French presidential election, for the term which expired on 13 May 2022. Macron became the first president of France to win a re-election bid since Jacques Chirac won in 2002 French presidential election, 2002. In the first round Macron finished first with 28% of the vote, followed by Le Pen with 23%, Jean-Luc Mélenchon of La France Insoumise with 22% and Éric Zemmour of Reconquête with 7%. Valérie Pécresse of The Republicans (France), the Republicans received 5% of the vote and Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris and Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party candidate, 2%. Both the Republicans and the Socialists, consid ...
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