Guadeloupe Government - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Official name: Department of Guadeloupe

Type: overseas department and region of France; represented by three deputies in the French National Assembly and two senators in the Senate; last Assembly election, 21 June 1981

Capital: Basse-Terre

Political subdivisions: 3 arrondissements; 34 communes, each with a locally elected municipal council

Legal system: French legal system; highest court is a court of appeal based in Martinique with jurisdiction over Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Martinique

Branches: executive. Prefect appointed by Paris; legislative, popularly elected General Council of 36 members and a Regional Council composed of members of the local General Council and the locally elected deputies and senators to the French parliament; judicial, under jurisdiction of French judi cial system

Govt rnment leader: Robert M1GUET, Prefect of the Republic (since 1985)

Suffrage; universal over age 18

Elections: General Council elections are normally held every five years; last General Council election took place in June 1981; regional assembly elections held in February 1983

Political parties and leaders: Rally for the Republic (RPR\ Gabriel Lisette; Communist Party of Guadeloupe (PCG), Henri Bangou; Socialist Party (MSG), leader unknown; Progressive Party of Guadeloupe (PPG), Henri Rodes, Independent Republicans; Federation of the Left; Union for French Democracy (UDF); Union for a New Majority (UNM)

Voting strength: (1981 election) French National Assembly—MSG, 1 seat; PCG, 1 seat; UDF, 1 seat

Communists: 3,000 est.

Other political or pressure groups: Popular Union for the Liberation of Guadeloupe (UPLG), Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance (ARC), Popular Movement for Independent Guadeloupe (MPG1), Union for the Liberation of Guadeloupe (UPLG), General Union of Guadeloupe Workers (UGTG), General Federation of Guadeloupe Workers (CGT-G)

Member of: WFTU

NOTE: The information regarding Guadeloupe on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Guadeloupe 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Guadeloupe 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.