Olivier Besancenot
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Olivier Christophe Besancenot is a French far-left political figure and trade unionist, and the founding main spokesperson of the New Anticapitalist Party from 2009 to 2011.
Besancenot in 2012
Besancenot supporters, brandishing the red flags of the Communist Revolutionary League, overflowing in front of La Mutualité in Paris, where Olivier Besancenot was holding a meeting
Presidential elections were held in France on 21 and 22 April 2007 to elect the successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France for a five-year term. As no candidate received a majority of the vote
Olivier Besancenot
…and the founding main spokesperson of the New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau parti anticapitaliste, NPA) from 2009 to 2011. He was a candidate for the 2007 French presidential election, for the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR), the French section of the Fourth International. He gained 1.2 million votes, 4.25%, standing as a…
Nicolas Sarkozy, 2007
Ségolène Royal 2007
Transparent ballot boxes have been required since 1988.
Some French cities used voting machines.