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Gabriel Serville (born 27 September 1959) is a French-Guianese politician who was elected to the French National Assembly on 16 June 2012 representing French Guiana's 1st constituency. [1] On 2 July 2021, he was elected President of the Assembly of French Guiana .
It was first elected in 2015, replacing the General Council of French Guiana and the Regional Council of French Guiana. It was established after a 2010 referendum changed the government structure to a single territorial collectivity. [1] It currently has 55 members. [2] The current president, Gabriel Serville, was elected to a six-year term in ...
Devil's Island (French: Île du Diable) is the smallest of the Salvation Islands, an island group in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately 14 km (9 mi) off the coast of French Guiana in South America just north of the town of Kourou. It has an area of 14 ha (34.6 acres).
The President of France appoints a prefect (resident at the prefecture building in Cayenne) as his representative to head the local government of French Guiana. The Assembly of French Guiana replaced the General Council and the Regional Council in 2016. As of 2020 the prefect is Thierry Queffelec. [1] The President of the Guianese Assembly ...
The penal colony of Cayenne (French: Bagne de Cayenne), commonly known as Devil's Island (Île du Diable), was a French penal colony that operated for 100 years, from 1852 to 1952, and officially closed in 1953, in the Salvation Islands of French Guiana. Opened in 1852, the Devil's Island system received convicts from the Prison of St-Laurent ...
French Guiana divided into two territories: French Guiana (Cayenne and the Atlantic coast) and Inini (inland area) 6 July 1930 to 1931: Bernard Jacques Victorin Siadous, Governor: 27 May 1931 to 1933: Louis Joseph Bouge, acting Governor: 1933 to 1935: Julien Georges Lamy, Governor: 2 June 1935 to 1936: Max de Masson de Saint-Félix, Governor: 1936
The president of the General Council of French Guiana (French: Présidents du conseil général de la Guyane) presides over the nineteen seat General Council of French Guiana. List of presidents of the General Council
Rodolphe Alexandre (born 26 September 1953 in Cayenne) is a French politician from French Guiana. [1] The former Mayor of Cayenne, he was president of the Guiana Assembly, the deliberative assembly of French Guiana, since its establishment on 1 January 2016, [2] until 2021.