Worldwide Guide to Women in
Leadership
France Parties
Also see France Ministers
1975-78 Chairperson of the Senate Group of the Communist Party Marie-Thérèse Goutmann
1979- President of Lutts Ouvriere (Labourer's Fight) Arlette Laguiller
She was Presidential candidate 1974, 1981, 1988, 1995 and 2002.
1979 Chairperson of the Senate Group of the Communist Party Hélène Luc
1995 Chairperson of the Senate Group
She was Vice-President of the Counseil General du Valde-Marne. (b. 1932-)
1979-85 Secretary General of Parti Socialiste Unifié Huguette Bouchardeau
Former Presidential Candidate and Minister
1993...Co-Leader Alternative Rouge et Verte (Read and Green Alternative) Martine Bulot
1993... Co-Leader Alternative Rouge et Verte (Read and Green Alternative) Marie-Françoise Pirot
1994-2001 Leader of Les Verts (Green party) Dominique Voynet
2001-03 National Secretary (Chairperson and leader)
Presidential Candidate 1995 and 2007 and Environment Minister 1997-2001
1999-2002 President of Rassemble pour le République,
RPR, Michèle
Alliot-Marie
Former Secretary of State
and Minister for Education 1993-95 Minister of Youth and Sports, since 1994 1.
Vice-President of the Conseil Général of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
and Minister of Defence
from 2002. 1998-2002 Vice-President of the Parliamentary Group of RPR - Ralley for
the Republic is the conservative Party of President Chirac
2001-10 General Secretary of the French Communist
Party Marie-George Buffet
Former Minister of Sports
2008- First Secretary of the Socialist Party
Martine Aubry
Minister of
Labour 1991-93, Minister of Employment and Solidarity,
1997-2000, Mayor of Lille from 2001. She narrowly defeated the former Socialist
Presidential Candidate, Ségolène Royal for the position of Party Leader. (b. 1950-)
2010- National Secretary of Europe Écologie - Les Verts Cécile
Duflot
Leader of the newly founded party - a merger of a number of green
parties. (b. 1975-).
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Party Vice-President 2003-07. Elected leader in succession to her
father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Last update 16.01.12