Sixth constituency for French residents overseas

6th constituency for French residents overseas

French National Assembly constituency
Deputy	none yet -
Department	none (overseas residents)
Canton	none
Voters	145,108

The Sixth constituency for French residents overseas (sixième 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

This constituency is the smallest of the eleven by area. It covers two countries: Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is also, however, the second most populous (after the First): As of New Year's Day 2011, it contained 145,108 registered French voters. Virtually all of these live in Switzerland, which has a greater number of registered French residents than any other country in the world.^[1][2][3]

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

Deputies

Election results

2012

Candidates

The list of candidates was officially finalised on 14 May. These are the twenty-one candidates:^[4][5]

The Socialist Party has chosen Nicole Castioni, a resident of Geneva, as its candidate. She is a magistrate in the Criminal Court of Geneva, and, having dual French and Swiss citizenship, was an elected representative at the Parliament of Geneva from 1993 to 2001. Her deputy (suppléant) is Louis Lepioufle, also a resident of Geneva.^[6]

The Union for a Popular Movement has chosen Claudine Schmid. Sébastien Brack is her deputy (suppléant).^[7]

Europe Écologie–The Greens has chosen Ximena Kaiser Morris, with Jean Rossiaud as her deputy (suppléant).^[8] A resident of Lausanne, Kaiser Morris is also a member of the Green Party of Switzerland.^[9]

The Left Front (which unites several parties, most notably the French Communist Party and the Left Party) has chosen Magali Orsini, a long-term resident of Geneva and active participant in Geneva's left-wing politics. She is a Chartered Accountant, former lecturer on tax law and former assessor. Pierre Gauthier is her deputy (suppléant).^[10]

The National Front has chosen Christiane Floquet. Serge Mohler is her deputy (suppléant).^[5]

The Radical Party (centre-right) and the Republican, Ecologist and Social Alliance (centrist) have jointly chosen Marie-Françoise d'Anglemont as their candidate, with Marcel Paquier as her deputy (suppléant). She has dual French and Swiss citizenship, and has a political career in the Swiss Canton of Geneva.^[11]

The Radical Party of the Left (centre-left) has chosen Laila Barki, who works in pharmaceuticals in Geneva. Philippe Berger is her deputy (suppléant).^[12]

The Pirate Party has chosen Romain Devouassoux, with Xavier Gillard as his deputy.^[5]

Solidarity and Progress, the French branch of the LaRouche movement, is represented by Odile Mojon, with Christophe Laverne as her deputy. Mojon, who works as a documentarist translator, has dual French and Swiss citizenship.^[13]

Joseph Kuzsli is the candidate of the European Social-Democratic Party, with Pierre Baccale-Ramonatxco as his deputy.^[5]

Micheline Spoerri, former Minister for Police and Security in the government of the canton of Geneva, is standing as the candidate of the "Independent Right". Jean-Patrick Bourcart is her deputy.^[14]

Pierre-Jean Duvivier, a resident of Switzerland, is an independent candidate, stating his wish to "strictly defend the private sector against the multiple attempts to constrain it". Tatiana Zhyvylo is his deputy.^[15]

Didier Salavert describes himself as an "independent liberal" candidate, in the French meaning of the word (i.e. classical liberalism). Pierre Chappaz is his deputy.^[16] He was endorsed by the Liberal Democratic Party.^[17]

The other independent candidates are: Bernard Garcia (with Gloria Giol as deputy); Guy Broustine (with Isabelle Lovera as deputy); Sébastien Jacques (with Annat Jacques as deputy); Nicolas Miguet (with Guillaume Barthelemey as deputy); Serge Cyril Vinet (with Sylvie Boutard as deputy); Christian Robert (with Tatiana Robert as deputy); Didier Tailliez (with Jean-Michel Barreyre as deputy); and Gérard Andrieux (with Geneviève Berthin-Hugault as deputy).^[5]

Results

As in the other expatriate constituencies, turnout in the first round was low. It was one of only three expatriate constituencies in which the main candidate of the right finished first.^[18][19]

Independent candidate Sébastien Jacques received a single vote (out of 23,390 votes cast). He had stood as representative of the "International Capitalist Party", his main platform being the adoption by France of the Swiss fiscal model, and a rejection of the French government's "nauseating and unhealthy" efforts against tax evasion by expatriates.^[18][20]

References