Second constituency for French residents overseas

The Second constituency for French residents overseas (deuxième 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.

2nd constituency for French residents overseas
French National Assembly
constituency
Deputy
 Paula Forteza
EDS
Departmentnone (overseas residents)
Cantonsnone
Registered voters99,471

Area

It covers all French citizens living in Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Thus it covers every country in the Americas – other than Canada and the United States, which together constitute the First constituency. Nor does it include the French overseas departments and territories in the Americas, which are part of France and form constituencies of their own: Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (one constituency), Guadeloupe (four), Martinique (four) and French Guiana (two).[1]

It is the least populous constituency of its kind, as it contained, as of New Year's Day 2011, 92,633 registered French voters.[2]

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

Deputies
ElectionMemberParty
2012 Sergio Coronado EELV
2017 Paula Forteza REM
2020 EDS

National Assembly elections

2017
 Summary of the 2017 French legislative election results
Candidate Party 1st round 2nd round
Votes % Votes %
Paula Forteza La Republique En Marche! REM 4,964 43.17% 5,494 60.92%
Sergio Coronado Europe Ecology – The Greens-FI-PP EELV 2,715 23.61% 3,525 39.08%
Pascal Drouhaud The Republicans LR 1,286 11.18%
Charles-Henry Chenut Union of Democrats and Independents UDI 952 8.28%
Thierry Rignol Miscellaneous right DVD 512 4.45%
Jean-Marc Millet National Front FN 291 2.53%
Florence Baillon Socialist Party PS 273 2.37%
Martin Biurrun Miscellaneous right DVD 160 1.39%
Jacques Werckmann Independent Ecological Movement MEI 109 0.95%
Jean-Philippe Noël Popular Republican Union UPR 104 0.90%
Lawrence Perea Communist Party PCF 58 0.50%
Hai-Dang Ha-Thuc #MyVoice 56 0.49%
Patricio Arenas Citizens 17 0.15%
Palmira Pozo Sans étiquette 2 0.02%
Alain Videau Sans étiquette 1 0.01%
Total 11,500 100% 9,019 100%
Registered voters 75,029 75,022
Blank ballots 36 0.31% 261 2.79%
Null ballots 79 0.68% 77 0.82%
Turnout 11,615 15.48% 9,357 12.47%
Abstentions 63,414 84.52% 65,665 87.53%

Candidates

The list of candidates was officially finalised on 14 May. There were twelve candidates:[3][4]

The Union for a Popular Movement chose Pascal Drouhaud, formerly the party's director of international relations.[5]

Europe Écologie–The Greens chose Sergio Coronado (born in Chile and raised in Argentina), with Cécile Lavergne as his deputy (suppléante). He was a spokesman for Eva Joly during the 2012 presidential election campaign.[6] Coronado was endorsed by the Socialist Party, which did not presenting a candidate of its own.[7][8]

Raquel Garrido, a member of the Left Party, was the chosen candidate for the Left Front, of which she was a co-founder and which also included the French Communist Party. A lawyer, she was described as "Jean-Luc Mélenchon's international spokeswoman". Born in Chile, she moved to France with her parents after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. In France, she became a leader of the National Union of Students, then vice-president of SOS Racisme. She was also in charge of international relations at the Workers' Force union federation, and represented France at the International Labour Organization. Her deputy (suppléant) was singer-songwriter Nilda Fernández.[9][10][11]

The National Front chose Alain-Gérard Georgi-Samaran, a resident of Paraguay who has been "an entrepreneur in South America for more than thirty years". Jean-Marie Matten was his deputy (suppléant).[12]

The centre-right Radical Party and the centrist Republican, Ecologist and Social Alliance jointly chose Joel Doglioni, a resident of Bogota, as their candidate. Doglioni was an adviser to France's foreign trade. Jean-Jacques Gaudiot was his deputy (suppléant).[13]

The centre-left Radical Party of the Left chose Thérèse Marianne-Pépin. Catherine Prost was her deputy (suppléante).[14]

Solidarity and Progress, the French branch of the LaRouche movement, was represented by Cédric Manscour, with Silvia Santorio as his deputy (suppléante).[4]

Françoise Lindemann, affiliated to the Union for a Popular Movement, ran as an independent candidate against the party's candidate. A resident of Brazil, she owned and ran a hotel outside Rio de Janeiro. Her deputy (suppléant) was Francis Javelly.[4][15]

Charles-Henry Chenut, head of a law firm in Brazil, presented himself as an independent centrist candidate. His deputy was Emmanuel Henriet.[16]

Palmira Pozo was an independent candidate. She proposed to allow her constituents to dictate her vote on every bill in Parliament. Francis Le Suave was her deputy.[17]

Jean-Marc Millet was an independent candidate, representing his France Expat Collective Vision (Collectif Vision France Expat) movement. Philippe Gillier was his deputy.[4]

Alain Terrien was an independent candidate, with Bertrang Lalague as his deputy.[4]

Results

Turnout for the first round was low throughout the constituency, with a low point of 7% in Saint Lucia (where 34 of the 488 registered French citizens voted) and a high point of just 39.8% in El Salvador. Turnout was also comparatively high in Cuba (38.1%). Elsewhere, it was below 30%. The smallest turnout in numeric terms was in Suriname, where only 17 citizens voted, out of 148 (11.5%).[18]

Sergio Coronado, the candidate of the Greens backed by the Socialist Party, obtained a comfortable lead in the first round. He finished first in almost every country (except the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay and Venezuela), and obtained 13 of the 17 votes cast in Suriname (76.47%). The electorate on the mainstream right was split between the UMP-endorsed candidate, Pascal Drouhaud, and dissident candidate Françoise Lindemann, who succeeded in obtaining over 16% of the vote to finish third. Raquel Garrido, the Left Front's international spokeswoman, obtained her party's joint best result abroad (fourth with 8.6%), matched by Juliette Estivil in the fifth constituency.[6][18] Coronado went on to win the second round.[19]

Legislative Election 2012: Overseas residents 2 – 2nd round[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
EELV Sergio Coronado 5,977 53.63 –
UMP Pascal Drouhaud 5,168 46.37 –
Turnout 11,390 15.55 –
EELV win (new seat)
Legislative Election 2012: Overseas residents 2 – 1st round[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
EELV Sergio Coronado 4 128 35.88 –
UMP Pascal Drouhaud 2 620 22.77 –
DVD Françoise Lindemann 1 851 16.09 –
FG Raquel Garrido 990 8.60 –
Independent Charles-Henry Chenut 466 4.05 –
FN Alain-Gérard Georgi-Samaran 430 3.74 –
Radical Joel Doglioni 423 3.68 –
Independent Jean-Marc Millet 416 3.62 –
PRG Thérèse Marianne-Pépin 119 1.03 –
SP Cédric Manscour 41 0.36 –
Independent Palmira Pozo 13 0.11 –
Independent Alain Terrien 8 0.07 –
Turnout 11 680 15.9 –

Presidential elections

2017
 Summary of the French presidential election results in the 2nd overseas constituency
Candidate Party 1st round 2nd round
Votes % Votes %
Emmanuel Macron En Marche! EM 9,155 37.97% 22,361 89.30%
François Fillon The Republicans LR 6,335 26.28%
Jean-Luc Mélenchon La France insoumise FI 4,673 19.38%
Marine Le Pen National Front FN 1,680 6.97% 2,679 10.70%
Benoît Hamon Socialist Party PS 1,442 5.98%
François Asselineau Popular Republican Union UPR 244 1.01%
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Debout la France DLF 216 0.90%
Philippe Poutou New Anticapitalist Party NPA 152 0.63%
Jean Lassalle Résistons! 114 0.47%
Nathalie Arthaud Lutte Ouvrière LO 51 0.21%
Jacques Cheminade Solidarity and Progress S&P 47 0.19%
Total 24,109 100% 25,040 100%

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. "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
  4. "2eme circonscription : Amérique Latine", Le Petit Journal
  5. "Législatives : l'UMP a désigné ses candidats pour l'étranger", Le Figaro, 13 April 2011
  6. "Législatives : tous les résultats des Français de l'étranger", Le Nouvel Observateur, 4 June 2012
  7. "Motion 13: Législatives 2012: Hors de France" Archived 18 April 2012 at Archive.today, Europe Écologie–The Greens
  8. "EELV « arrache » l’Amérique du sud au PS" Archived 12 July 2012 at Archive.today, France 3, 16 November 2011
  9. "Présentation de Raquel Garrido", Le Petit Journal
  10. "Investitures : ça bouge à gauche, ça bouchonne à droite…" Archived 21 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine, France 3, 12 January 2012
  11. "2e CIRCONSCRIPTION – Raquel Garrido (Front de Gauche) : "Les expatriés sont des Français comme les autres"", Le Petit Journal
  12. "Présentation de Alain-Gérard Georgi-Samaran", Le Petit Journal
  13. "Présentation de Joel Doglioni", Le petit Journal
  14. "Présentation de Thérèse MARIANNE-PEPIN", Le Petit Journal
  15. "UNE PREMIERE- Les Français d’Amérique latine vont élire un député en 2012", Le Petit Journal, 25 August 2011
  16. "Présentation de Charles-Henry Chenut", Le Petit Journal
  17. "Présentation de Palmira Pozo", Le Petit Journal
  18. Official results of the first round, French Ministry for Foreign Affairs
  19. "Résultats du 2nd tour – 17 juin 2012 dans la 2ème circonscription – Amérique latine", Le Monde
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