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Candidate Party First round Second round Voice % Voice % Éric Ciotti: LR 28,297: 42.73: 33,609: 53.70: Bruno Retailleau: LR 22,815 34.45 28,977 46.30 Aurélien Pradié
The Republicans (French: Les Républicains, [le ʁepyblikɛ̃], LR) [b] is a liberal-conservative political party in France, largely inspired by the tradition of Gaullism. [6] [2] [7] 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.
The Republican Party (French: Parti républicain, [paʁti ʁepyblikɛ̃], PR) was a liberal-conservative [2] political party in France which existed from 1977 to 1997. Created by the then-President of France, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, it replaced the National Federation of the Independent Republicans which was founded in 1966. [3]
This article contains a list of political parties in France.. France has a multi-party political system: one in which the number of competing political parties is sufficiently large as to make it almost inevitable that, in order to participate in the exercise of power, any single party must be prepared to negotiate with one or more others with a view to forming electoral alliances and/or ...
The presidency of the party became vacant on 29 November after the primary was won by François Fillon, who appointed Bernard Accoyer as general secretary and Wauquiez as 1st vice president. [ 3 ] In the first round of the 2017 presidential election, Fillon suffered a historic defeat, with the right eliminated in the first round for the first ...
The Republican Right group (French: Groupe Droite républicaine, DR), formerly the Union for a Popular Movement group (French: Groupe de l'Union pour un mouvement populaire, UMP) from 2003 and 2015 and The Republicans group (French: Groupe Les Républicains, LR) from 2015 to 2024, is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of The Republicans (LR), formerly the ...
Marine Le Pen, the president of the National Rally (RN), announced on 16 January 2020 that she would be running in the election. She previously ran in the 2012 and 2017 presidential elections as the party's candidate, then called the National Front (FN). She came third in 2012 with 17.9% of the vote in the first round and second in 2017 with 21 ...
The party was divided on the method of selecting its candidate for the 2022 presidential election. In 2016, the party had used an open primary, which brought a record 4.4 million voters in, but the surprise winner François Fillon did not manage to qualify for the run-off, and left the party weakened between Macron-compatible and right-wing ...