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Fifth French Legislative Constituency For Citizens Abroad
The fifth French legislative constituency for citizens abroad (''cinquième circonscription des Français établis hors de France'') is one of eleven constituencies each electing one representative of French citizens abroad to the French National Assembly. This constituency elected its first ever representative at the 2012 French legislative election - Arnaud Leroy of the Socialist Party. The election of Samantha Cazebonne of LREM in 2017 was invalidated by the Constitutional Council. Cazebonne was elected at the subsequent by-election. Area This constituency covers four countries: Portugal, Spain, Andorra and Monaco. As of New Year's Day 2011, it contained 116,196 registered French voters. The bulk of these, 89,391, were living in Spain, while 15,049 were living in Portugal, 8,302 in Monaco (a microstate which has a border only with France), and 3,454 in Andorra (a microstate, between Spain and France, of which the President of France is ''ex officio'' Co-Prince). Depu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Vojetta
Stephane Vojetta (born 19 July 1974) is a French politician who served as the member of the National Assembly for the Fifth constituency for citizens abroad from 2021 to 2025. He succeeded Samantha Cazebonne as her substitute following her election to the Senate. He was removed from La République En Marche on 17 May 2022, after opting to stand for re-election against his party's chosen candidate, Manuel Valls, the former Prime Minister. Nonetheless, he was re-elected in 2022, and again in 2024. In July 2025, the Constitutional Council invalidated his election due to irregularities in campaign financing, forcing him to immediately resign and triggering a by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben .... References 1974 births Living people Deputies of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of France
The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (), is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces. As the presidency is the supreme magistracy of the country, the position is the highest office in France. The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, in addition to their relation with the prime minister and government of France, have over time differed with the various constitutional documents since the Second Republic. The president of the French Republic is the co-prince of Andorra, grand master of the Legion of Honour and of the National Order of Merit. The officeholder is also honorary proto-canon of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, although some have rejected the title in the past. The current president is Emmanuel Macron, who succeeded François Hollande on 14 May 2017 following the 2017 presidential election, and was inaugurated for a second term on 7 May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reconquête
Reconquête (, ), stylised as Reconquête! (often shortened as R!), is a far-right political party in France founded in late 2021 by Éric Zemmour, who has since served as its leader. He was a candidate in the 2022 presidential election, in which he placed fourth with just over 7% of the vote as the best newcomer. History Background From September 2021, opinion polling for the 2022 presidential election showed a sharp rise in favour of far-right journalist and author Éric Zemmour in the months before he formally became a candidate. A series of opinion polls suggested that Zemmour might reach the presidential election's second round, competing against incumbent President Emmanuel Macron. Although there had been speculation about a possible run for the presidential nomination of The Republicans in the party's 2021 congress, Zemmour opted to put his name forward as the nominee of a new party. Launch Éric Zemmour formally announced his candidacy for the presidency on 3 ... [...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] |
Miscellaneous Left
Miscellaneous left (', ''DVG'') in France refers to left-wing candidates who are not members of any party or a member of party that has no elected seats. They include either small left-wing parties or dissidents expelled from their parties for running against their party's candidate. Numerous ' candidates are elected at a local level, and a smaller number at the national level. See also * Independent Democrat, a label used in the United States for an independent candidate who loosely identifies with the ideals of the Democratic Party but is not a formal member of the party *Miscellaneous centre *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 thei ... References Left-wing parties in France Political parties of the French Fifth Republic Independent politicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of The Right And Centre
The Union of the Right and Centre (; UDC) is a term used in France to designate an electoral alliance between the parties of the right and of the centre-right. Throughout the Fifth Republic, the Gaullist party allied itself with smaller right and centre political formations in order to obtain a majority in the National Assembly or for local elections. Between 2002 and 2012, almost all of this movement was united in the Union for a Popular Movement which then defined itself as the "party of the right and of the centre". The term is subsequently used for the lists and candidacies presented by The Republicans party and its centrist allies (Union of Democrats and Independents and The Centrists). With a view to the legislative elections of June 2022, the president of LR Christian Jacob unveiled during a National Congress organized on May 7, 2022, an agreement providing for mutual withdrawals between the three formations, including 457 candidates invested by LR, 59 by the UDI, 26 ... [...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] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Popular Front
The New Popular Front ( , NFP) is a broad Left-wing politics, left-wing electoral alliance with centre-left politics, centre-left and far-left politics, far-left factions in France. It was launched on 10 June 2024 to contest the 2024 French legislative election following the gains of History of far-right movements in France, far-right parties in the 2024 European Parliament election in France, 2024 European Parliament election. The Front stood in opposition to both Ensemble (political coalition), Ensemble, the presidential camp of Emmanuel Macron, as well as the far-right National Rally. The Front is an alliance of La France Insoumise, the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party, the Ecologist Pole, the French Communist Party, Génération.s, Génération·s, the Republican and Socialist Left, the New Anticapitalist Party, and other Centre-left politics, centre-left and left-wing political parties, comprising the majority of French Left#Left-wing political parties, left-wing p ... [...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] |
Together (coalition)
Ensemble (, stylised in all caps), known in full as Ensemble pour la République (''Together for the Republic''), is a liberal political coalition in France created by Emmanuel Macron. Formed in November 2021 as Ensemble Citoyens, it makes up the presidential majority and includes Renaissance (RE, formerly known as En Marche and La République En Marche!), Democratic Movement (MoDem), Horizons, En commun, and the Progressive Federation. The coalition included the parties Agir and Territories of Progress (TDP) until they were merged into the rebranded Renaissance. Ensemble has mainly been described as being centrist and sometimes as centre-right on the political spectrum. After the 2022 French legislative election, the coalition won a plurality of seats but lost its majority in the National Assembly. In 2024, they were reduced further into third place in terms of votes but second in seats. History On 17 December 2017, at the congress of the Democratic Movement (Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
