Fourth constituency for French residents overseas

4th constituency for French residents overseas

French National Assembly
constituency

Deputy
 Philip Cordery
PS
Department none (overseas residents)
Canton none
Voters 150,965

The Fourth constituency for French residents overseas (quatrième circonscription des Français établis hors de France) is one of eleven constituencies each electing one representative of French citizens overseas to the French National Assembly.

Area

In terms of area, it is the second smallest of the eleven constituencies (after the Sixth), and covers the three countries of Benelux: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. In contrast, it is the second most populous (after the First) : As of New Year's Day 2011, it contained 150,965 registered French voters. The bulk of these, 101,236, were living in Belgium - the country with the fifth greatest number of registered French residents in the world.[1][2][3]

This constituency elected its first ever representative at the 2012 French legislative election.

Deputies

ElectionMemberParty
2012 Philip Cordery PS

Election results

2012

Candidates

The list of candidates was officially finalised on 14 May. There were sixteen candidates:[4][5]

The Union for a Popular Movement initially chose Pascale Andréani, former permanent representative of France to NATO, as its candidate.[6] When Andréani became France's permanent representative to the OECD, the party named Marie-Anne Montchamp, the then-Secretary of State on Solidarity, as candidate in her place. Jeremy Michel was her deputy (suppléant).[7]

The Socialist Party chose Philip Cordery, a resident of Brussels. His deputy (suppléante) was Hélène Le Moing, a resident of The Hague.[8]

Europe Écologie–The Greens chose Perrine Ledan, with Édouard Gaudot as her deputy (suppléant).[9] Ledan, a journalist, is a resident of Brussels.[10]

The Left Front, which included the French Communist Party, chose Charlotte Balavoine, with Patrick Cavaglieri as her deputy (suppléant). Balavoine was a member of the Communist Party.[5][11]

The Democratic Movement chose Tanguy Le Breton, with Raphael Lederer as his deputy.[5]

The National Front chose Sophie Duval. Martine Masse was her deputy.[5]

The Radical Party of the Left chose Nadia Bourahla, with Philippe Loopuyt as her deputy.[5]

The Christian Democratic Party (an associate party of the UMP) chose Stéphane Buffetaut, with Isabelle Soibinet as his deputy. Buffetaut was also endorsed by the National Centre of Independents and Peasants.[12]

The Pirate Party chose Pablo Martin, with Alix Guillard as his deputy.[5]

Solidarity and Progress, the French branch of the LaRouche movement, was represented by Guillaume Dubost, a 32-year-old electrical engineer and long-term resident of Brussels. He was a presiding member of Agora Erasmus, the Benelux branch of the LaRouche movement. Romain Drouillon was his deputy.[13]

Dominique Paillé, a former spokesman for the Union for a Popular Movement, sought to be the candidate for that party. When he was not chosen, he stated that he would "definitely" be a candidate all the same, standing against Andréani if she did not desist.[6] He eventually became the candidate of the centre-right Radical Party and the centrist Republican, Ecologist and Social Alliance. A resident of Brussels, he was a lawyer in Paris.[14] His deputy (suppléante) was Anne Monseu Ducarme.[5]

Virginie Taittinger stood as an independent right-wing candidate. Describing herself as close to the UMP, she presented herself as the "candidate of (Nicolas Sarkozy's) presidential majority", although she ran against the UMP-endorsed candidate. A resident of Brussels, she described herself officially as the candidate of the Union of the Centre and the Right of the French in Benelux. Gaël du Bouëtiez was her deputy.[15][16]

Georges-Francis Seingry, a resident of Brussels who described himself as non-partisan, stood for the Gathering of French Residents Overseas (Rassemblement des Français de l'étranger), a political movement related to the Union for a Popular Movement. Éric Krebs was his deputy.[17]

Ruben Mohedano-Brèthes had been a French expatriate in Belgium since 1996. He was an official of the European Union (in charge of information and communication since 1996: Eurobarometer opinion polls, audio-visual strategy and youth information) and a trade-unionist. He presented himself as an "independent centrist humanist" candidate, under the Force of Freedom banner. He was endorsed by the Centrist Alliance.[18] He was also endorsed by the Liberal Democratic Party.[19]

There were two independent candidates: Elisabeth Valenti (with Jean-Marie Soja as her deputy); and Elisabeth Chevalier (with Jeannine Porte as her deputy).[5]

Results

As in other constituencies, turnout in the first round was low: 24.4% in Belgium, 24.4% also in Luxembourg, and 22.1% in the Netherlands. Socialist candidate Philip Cordery finished first in all three countries.[20][21] He went on to win the second round by a fairly large margin.[22]

Legislative Election 2012: Overseas residents 4 - 2nd round[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PS Philip Cordery 13,089 53.16 -
UMP Marie-Anne Montchamp 11,533 46.84 -
Turnout 25,242 26.03 -
PS win (new seat)
Legislative Election 2012: Overseas residents 4 - 1st round[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
PS Philip Cordery 7 024 30.38 -
UMP Marie-Anne Montchamp 4 891 21.15 -
EELV Perrine Ledan 2 356 10.19 -
Miscellaneous right Virginie Taittinger 1 756 7.59 -
MoDem Tanguy Le Breton 1 554 6.72 -
FN Sophie Duval 1 357 5.87 -
Miscellaneous right Georges-Francis Seingry 1 169 5.06 -
FG Charlotte Balavoine 970 4.19 -
Radical Dominique Paillé 645 2.79 -
Christian Democrat Stéphane Buffetaut 453 1.96 -
Pirate Party Pablo Martin 312 1.35 -
Centrist Alliance Ruben Mohedano-Brèthes 296 1.28 -
PRG Nadia Bourahla 181 0.78 -
Solidarity and Progress Guillaume Dubost 99 0.43 -
Independent Elisabeth Chevalier 40 0.17 -
Independent Elisabeth Valentin 21 0.09 -
Turnout 23 332 24.1 -

References

  1. ↑ "Les élections en 2012 à l’étranger: Votre circonscription pour l’élection des députés", French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
  2. ↑ "Décret n° 2011-367 du 4 avril 2011 authentifiant la population des Français établis hors de France au 1er janvier 2011", Légifrance
  3. ↑ "Français inscrits au registre mondial au 31/12/2010", French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
  4. ↑ "Arrêté du 14 mai 2012 fixant la liste des candidats au premier tour de l'élection des députés élus par les Français établis hors de France ", Journal Officiel de la République Française, 15 May 2012
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Candidates for the fourth constituency, in Le Petit Journal
  6. 1 2 "Législatives : l'UMP a désigné ses candidats pour l'étranger", Le Figaro, April 13, 2011
  7. ↑ "Amérique du Nord : l'UMP désigne Lefebvre", Journal du dimanche, 25 November 2011
  8. ↑ "Elections législatives 2012 : nos candidates et candidats", Parti Socialiste - Fédération des Français à l'Etranger
  9. ↑ "Motion 13: Législatives 2012: Hors de France", Europe Écologie–The Greens
  10. ↑ "Les 11 candidat-e-s EELV sur les circonscriptions législatives hors de France", EELV, 12 November 2011
  11. ↑ "LEGISLATIVES - Le Parti Communiste Français présente 7 candidats pour le Front de Gauche", Le Petit Journal
  12. ↑ "Présentation de Stéphane Buffetaut", Le Petit Journal
  13. ↑ "Présentation de Guillaume Dubost", Le Petit Journal
  14. ↑ "Présentation de Dominique Paillé", Le Petit Journal
  15. ↑ "Les Français à la radioscopie", Le Soir, 7 October 2011
  16. ↑ "4ème circonscription : Benelux", Le Petit Journal
  17. ↑ "Présentation de Georges-Francis Seingry", Le Petit Journal
  18. ↑ "Présentation de Ruben Mohedano-Brèthes", Le Petit Journal
  19. ↑ Véron, Aurélien (20 May 2012). "Candidats soutenus par le Parti Libéral Démocrate aux législatives 2012" (in French). Liberal Democratic Party. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  20. 1 2 Official results of the first round, French Ministry for Foreign Affairs
  21. ↑ "Législatives : tous les résultats des Français de l'étranger", Le Nouvel Observateur, 4 June 2012
  22. 1 2 "Résultats du 2nd tour - 17 juin 2012 dans la 4ème circonscription - Benelux", Le Monde
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/28/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.