Gilles Savary (born 6 December 1954 in Oradour-sur-Vayres, Haute-Vienne) is a French politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and was vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.

He was also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the delegation for relations with Iran, and a member of the temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013.

Alain Rousset (born February 16, 1951 in Chazelles-sur-Lyon, Loire) is the Socialist president of the Aquitaine region of France, and a Deputy in the National Assembly of France, representing the 7th constituency of the Gironde.

He was elected to the Regional Council of Aquitaine in 1998 and then reelected in 2004, and he entered the National Assembly in 2007.

He proposed a "Plan for Digital Aquitaine".

Arnaud Montebourg (born October 30, 1962, in Clamecy, Nièvre) is a French politician, and a deputy of the fifth district of Saône-et-Loire to the French National Assembly for the Socialist Party. He has also been elected president of the local assembly of Saône et Loire after local elections in 2008. Montebourg was also candidate to the socialist presidential primary of 2011.

He has been named France's Minister of Industrial Renewal in the New French government appointed under Prime Minister of France Jean-Marc Ayrault in May 16, 2012.

He is the son of Michel Montebourg, a civil servant employed in the Ministry of Economy and Finances, and Leïla Ould Cadi, a professor of Algerian descent, who was born to a family of Wālis from Hachem, northern Algeria.

Arnaud Montebourg became an attorney following university. Together with the notable attorney Thierry Levy, he defended Christian Didier, charged in the 1994 slaying of René Bousquet. The former Vichy official had been indicted for war crimes and was soon to be tried. Didier was convicted in 1995 and received a 10-year sentence.