6th constituency for French residents overseas
Constituency of the National Assembly of France
Deputy	Marc Ferracci RE
Department	None (overseas residents)
Cantons	None
Registered voters	159,733
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TheSixth French legislative constituency for citizens abroad (sixième circonscription des Français établis hors de France) is one ofeleven constituencies each electing one representative ofFrench people living outside France to theNational Assembly.

This constituency is the smallest of the eleven by area. It covers two countries:Switzerland andLiechtenstein. As of New Year's Day 2011, it contained 145,108 registered French voters.^{[needs update]} Virtually all of these live in Switzerland, which has a greater number of registered French residents than any other country in the world.^[1][2][3]

This constituency elected its first ever representative at the2012 French legislative election.

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The list of candidates was officially finalised on 14 May. There were twenty-one candidates:^[5][6]

TheSocialist Party chose Nicole Castioni, a resident ofGeneva, as its candidate. She was a magistrate in the Criminal Court of Geneva, and, having dual French and Swiss citizenship, was an elected representative in the Parliament of Geneva from 1993 to 2001. Her deputy (suppléant) was Louis Lepioufle, also a resident of Geneva.^[7]

TheUnion for a Popular Movement choseClaudine Schmid. Sébastien Brack was her deputy (suppléant).^[8]

Europe Écologie–The Greens chose Ximena Kaiser Morris, with Jean Rossiaud as her deputy (suppléant).^[9] A resident ofLausanne, Kaiser Morris was also a member of theGreen Party of Switzerland.^[10]

TheLeft Front (which unites several parties, most notably theFrench Communist Party and theLeft Party) chose Magali Orsini, a long-term resident ofGeneva and active participant in that city's left-wing politics. She was aChartered Accountant, former lecturer intax law and formerassessor. Pierre Gauthier was her deputy (suppléant).^[11]

TheNational Front chose Christiane Floquet. Serge Mohler was her deputy (suppléant).^[6]

The centre-rightRadical Party and the centristRepublican, Ecologist and Social Alliance jointly chose Marie-Françoise d'Anglemont as their candidate, with Marcel Paquier as her deputy (suppléant). She had dual French and Swiss citizenship, and had a political career in the SwissCanton of Geneva.^[12]

TheRadical Party of the Left chose Laila Barki, who worked in pharmaceuticals inGeneva. Philippe Berger was her deputy (suppléant).^[13]

ThePirate Party chose Romain Devouassoux, with Xavier Gillard as his deputy.^[6]

Solidarity and Progress, the French branch of theLaRouche movement, was represented by Odile Mojon, with Christophe Laverne as her deputy. Mojon, who worked as a documentarist translator, had dual French and Swiss citizenship.^[14]

Joseph Kuzsli was the candidate of the European Social-Democratic Party, with Pierre Baccale-Ramonatxco as his deputy.^[6]

Micheline Spoerri, former Minister for Police and Security in the government of thecanton of Geneva, stood as the candidate of the "Independent Right". Jean-Patrick Bourcart is her deputy.^[15]

Pierre-Jean Duvivier, a resident of Switzerland, was an independent candidate, wishing to "strictly defend the private sector against the multiple attempts to constrain it". Tatiana Zhyvylo was his deputy.^[16]

Didier Salavert described himself as an "independent liberal" candidate, in the French meaning of the word (i.e.classical liberalism). Pierre Chappaz was his deputy.^[17] He was endorsed by theLiberal Democratic Party.^[18]

The other independent candidates were: Bernard Garcia (with Gloria Giol as deputy); Guy Broustine (with Isabelle Lovera as deputy); Sébastien Jacques (with Annat Jacques as deputy); Nicolas Miguet (with Guillaume Barthelemey as deputy); Serge Cyril Vinet (with Sylvie Boutard as deputy); Christian Robert (with Tatiana Robert as deputy); Didier Tailliez (with Jean-Michel Barreyre as deputy); and Gérard Andrieux (with Geneviève Berthin-Hugault as deputy).^[6]

As in the other expatriate constituencies, turnout in the first round was low. It was one of only three expatriate constituencies in which the main candidate of the right finished first.^[19][20]

Independent candidate Sébastien Jacques received a single vote (out of 23,390 votes cast). He had stood as representative of the International Capitalist Party, his main platform being the adoption by France of the Swiss fiscal model, and a rejection of the French government's "nauseating and unhealthy" efforts againsttax evasion by expatriates.^[19][21]

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