The Tenth French legislative constituency for citizens abroad (dixième circonscription des Français établis hors de France) is one of eleven constituencies each electing one representative of French people living outside France to the French National Assembly.
Area It covers all French citizens living in the following forty-eight countries of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa, and of the Middle East: Angola, Bahrain, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, United Arab Emirates, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It does not include the overseas departments of Mayotte and Réunion, which are part of France and have their own constituencies."Les élections en 2012 à l’étranger: Votre circonscription pour l’élection des députés", French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
As of New Year's Day 2011, the Tenth constituency contained 140,310 registered French voters - of which 19,725 in Lebanon and 19,930 in Madagascar, the two countries in the region with the greatest number of registered French residents."Décret n° 2011-367 du 4 avril 2011 authentifiant la population des Français établis hors de France au 1er janvier 2011", Légifrance"Français inscrits au registre mondial au 31/12/2010", French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
This constituency elected its first ever representative at the 2012 French legislative election.
Deputies +Deputies from the 10th constituency for French residents overseas elected to the National Assembly for the legislatures of the 5th Republic.LegislatureStart of mandateEnd of mandateDeputyPartyNotesSubstitute 14th 20 June 2012 20 June 2017 Alain Marsaud UMP Fabienne Blineau 15th 21 June 2017 21 June 2022 Amal Amélia Lakrafi LREMJoe Moukarzel 16th 22 June 2022 9 June 2024 17th 18 July 2024Incumbent RE
Election results
2024 CandidatePartyAllianceFirst roundSecond roundVotes%Votes%Elsa Di MeoPSNFP11,65132.5214,98646.77Amélia LakrafiREEnsemble11,39831.8217,05553.23Jean De VeronLRUXD6,14717.16Lucas LamahLRUDC3,4889.74Marie Josée MabasiDVC9482.65Philippe CastellanREC8422.35Ali Camille HojeijDVC7091.98Odile Mojon-CheminadeDIV4501.26Sandra LaroseDIV940.26Julie LaguiDIV700.20Hugues Michel Marie-LouiseDIV200.06Nathalie MazotDVG70.02Valid votes35,824100.0032,041100.00Blank votes5631.542,3286.73Null votes1150.322000.58Turnout36,50232.0634,56930.37Abstentions77,35367.9479,26669.63Registered voters113,855113,835Source: ResultRE HOLD
2022
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2017 CandidateLabelFirst roundSecond roundVotes%Votes%Amal Amélia LakrafiREM60.0871.25Alain MarsaudLR18.8928.75William GueraicheDVG6.62Stéphane SakoschekFN5.53Gustave FayardDVD2.89Viviane ZinzindohoueECO1.87Guillaume de BricourtDVD1.35Noémie PotierDIV0.91Franck MériauDVG0.73Laure FerryDIV0.67Vincent FournerieDIV0.47Votes100.00100.00Valid votes98.6995.33Blank votes0.903.76Null votes0.410.91Turnout19.5418.26Abstentions80.4681.74Registered votersSource: Ministry of the Interior
2012
Candidates The list of candidates was officially finalised on 14 May. There were nineteen candidates:"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
The Socialist Party chose Jean-Daniel Chaoui, a resident of Antananarivo, as its candidate. His deputy (suppléante) was Rita Maalouf, a resident of Beirut."Elections législatives 2012 : nos candidates et candidats", Parti Socialiste - Fédération des Français à l'Etranger
The Union for a Popular Movement chose Alain Marsaud, a former judge."Législatives : l'UMP a désigné ses candidats pour l'étranger", Le Figaro, April 13, 2011 While he was established in France, his deputy (suppléante), Fabienne Blineau-Abiramia, was a resident of Beirut."Alain Marsaud en déplacement au Qatar et aux Emirats Arabes Unis", Alain Marsaud's official website, 28 November 2011
The Left Front chose Axelle Brémont-Bellini, a student of Egyptology and Anthropology in Cairo. She was a member of the French Communist Youth Movement, and fluent speaker of Arabic. Regarding the specifics of the constituency, she advocated the teaching of local languages in French expatriate schools, and "a transparent foreign policy respectful of the values of the Republic, with an end to Françafrique, and for a socially and environmentally sustainable development". Her deputy (suppléant) was Daniel Feurtet."Présentation de Axelle Brémont-Bellini", Le Petit Journal
Europe Écologie–The Greens chose Lucien Bruneau, a resident of Addis-Abeba, with Agnès Joignerez as his deputy (suppléante)."Motion 13: Législatives 2012: Hors de France" , Europe Écologie–The Greens"Les 11 candidat-e-s EELV sur les circonscriptions législatives hors de France" , EELV, 12 November 2011
The National Front chose Francis Maginot, a telecommunications engineer, with Jad Ghantous as his deputy.
The centre-right Radical Party and the centrist Republican, Ecologist and Social Alliance jointly chose François Kahn as their candidate. He ran several companies which provide medical equipment for hospitals and clinics in Africa and the Middle East. His deputy was Ali Liaquat."Présentation de François Kahn", Le Petit Journal
The centre-left Radical Party of the Left chose Saliha Ayadi, who had dual French and Algerian citizenship. Her deputy was Adrien Houabaloukou."10ème circonscription : Moyen-Orient / Afrique de l’Est" , Le Petit Journal
Solidarity and Progress, the French branch of the LaRouche movement, was represented by Pierre Bonnefoy, with Eric Mercier as his deputy.
Guy Makki, a member of the Union for a Popular Movement who did not obtain the endorsement of the party, stood as an independent. A resident of Dubai, he worked for BNP Paribas. His deputy was Marie Ferlay."Guy Makki : de l’UMP à la candidature indépendante", L'Orient-Le Jour, 22 November 2011
Patricia Elias Smida, a lawyer who lived and worked in both Lebanon and Gabon, stood as an independent candidate. She was a dissident member of the UMP. Her deputy was Xavier du Bourg de la Tour."Présentation de Patricia Elias Smida", Le Petit Journal
Marcel Misslin de Robillard, a resident of Mauritius, stood as an independent candidate. His deputy was Danielle Audineau-Herauld."Présentation de Marcel Misslin de Robillard", Le Petit Journal
François Bridon, who was of French and Cameroonian descent and worked as a farmer in Cameroon, stood as an independent candidate. He had also lived in Gabon and Côte d'Ivoire. His deputy was Nina Tamic."Présentation de François Bridon", Le Petit Journal
Jean-Pierre Pont, a journalist, was another independent candidate. His deputy was Mirna Khalifé."Présentation de Jean-Pierre Pont", Le Petit Journal
The other independent candidates were: Bertrand Langlade (with Roger Teuron as deputy); Louis Perriere (with Jean-Marie Pierret); José Garson (with Bernard Boumba); Boudjema Naidji (with Malika Naidji); Adeline Kargue (with Andréas Loebell); and Habib Abi Yaghi Deguy (with Nadine Honeika).
Results As in the other expatriate constituencies, turnout in the first round was low. Only in Botswana did over half (55.9%) of registered French citizens vote. Turnout was also comparatively high in Burundi (43.9%), Rwanda (42.7%) and Oman (42.1%). By contrast, turnout was a staggeringly low 0.6% in Syria, where only 9 people voted, out of the 1,542 French residents registered there in late 2010. Syria at the time of the election was undergoing a violent internal conflict, and it is likely that many French residents had left the country. In Yemen, which had just experienced a revolution, turnout was also very low (9.1%), suggesting that some French residents had left the country prior to the election. Turnout was also notably low in the Comoros (6.7%), Egypt, where there had been a revolution in 2011 (18.3%), and South Africa (18.8%). In newly established South Sudan, where a polling station was set up in Juba, eight of the twenty-two registered French citizens voted (36.4%)."Législatives : tous les résultats des Français de l'étranger", Le Nouvel Observateur, 4 June 2012Official results of the first round, French Ministry for Foreign Affairs
This is one of only three expatriate constituencies in which the main candidate of the right finished first in the first round. Independent right-wing candidate Patricia Elias Smida also did well, obtaining more than 10% of the vote and finishing third.
Independent candidate Louis Perrière obtained just two votes - one cast in Benin, the other in South Africa.
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