1999 European Parliament election in France

none October 2024 October 2024 December 2020 France 1994 2004 All 87 French seats in the European Parliament 46.76 13 June 1999 PS–MDC–PRG François Hollande 28 22 21.95 The Alliance Charles Pasqua 13 13 13.06 RPR–DL Nicolas Sarkozy 14 12 12.82 The Greens (France) Daniel Cohn-Bendit 0 9 9.72 Union for French Democracy François Bayrou 14 9 9.29 French Communist Party Robert Hue 7 6 6.78 CPNT Jean Saint-Josse 0 6 6.78 FN Jean-Marie Le Pen 11 5 5.70 LO–LCR Arlette LaguillerAlain Krivine 0 5 5.18 330px European Parliament elections were held in France on 13 June 1999. Once again, abstention was very high for this type of election- only 47% of eligible voters voted. The election was also the first French European election to be won by the Socialist Party (PS). In a major surprise and historical upset for the government, Charles Pasqua's and Philippe de Villiers' list uniting Pasqua's new Gaullist Rally for France (RPF) and de Villiers' eurosceptic Movement for France (MPF) list surpassed the list of President Jacques Chirac's RPR-Liberal Democracy, led by Nicolas Sarkozy. The election ended Sarkozy's immediate political future, including a run for the presidency of the Rally for the Republic – Michèle Alliot-Marie, a close supporter of Chirac, succeeded him. However, the alliance between Pasqua and de Villiers proved to be ephemeral. de Villiers broke with Pasqua later 2000 and thus ended the RPF's chance to become a large common party for all eurosceptic Gaullists from within the RPR. The New Union for French Democracy (Nouvelle UDF), led by François Bayrou ran independently of the RPR, contrary to Chirac's wishes, for the first time since 1984. Bayrou won a relatively good result, 9.28%, allowing him to pursue his more independent political strategy (slowly distancing the party from the RPR) within the New UDF. The other winner of the election were The Greens led by Franco-German green politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit, whose list won 9.72%, the party's second-best result after 1989. Minor parties, including the agrarian populist Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions and the far-left Workers' Struggle obtained very good results and elected 6 and 5 MEP's respectively. The far-right FN was penalized by Bruno Megret's dissident MNR list and obtained a low result. The French Communist Party also did poorly. Results PS–MDC–PRG 3874231 22 –6 Rally for France–Movement for France 2304544 13 0 Rally for the Republic–Liberal Democracy 2263201 12 –2 The Greens 1715729 9 +9 Union for French Democracy 1638999 9 –5 French Communist Party 1196491 6 –1 Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions 1195863 6 +6 National Front 1005285 5 –6 Lutte Ouvrière–Revolutionary Communist League 914811 5 +5 National Republican Movement 578837 0 New Less Taxes Now! 312450 0 New Independent Ecological Movement 268038 0 New Fight for Jobs 178064 0 New Living Energy–France 124561 0 New Natural Law Party 71409 0 0 Humanist Party 1995 0 New Martiniquean Liberal Movement 1707 0 New Nationalist League 683 0 New Life Policy for Europe 274 0 0 Federalist Party 0 0 New 1118983 40132517 0 France Politique France Category:European Parliament elections in France Europe European Parliament election Category:1999 in French politics