Reunion Government - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Official name-Department of Reunion

Type: overseas department of France; represented in French Parliament by three deputies and two senators

Capital: Saint-Denis

Legal system: French law

Branches: Reunion is administered by a Prefect appointed by the French Minister of Interior, assisted by a Secretary General and an elected 36-man General Council; in 1974 France created an elected 45-member Regional Assembly to coordinate economic and social development policies; in 1981 both the General Council and the Regional Assembly received greater authority for fiscal policy

Government leader: Michel BL ANGY, Commissioner of the Republic (since February 1984)

Suffrage: universal adult

Elections: last municipal and General Council elections in 1983; parliamentary election June 1981; Regional Assembly election February 1983

Political parties and leaders: Reunion Com munist Party (RCP), Paul Verges; Popular Movement for the Liberation of Reunion, Georges Sinamale; other political candidates affiliated with metropolitan French parties, which do not maintain permanent organizations on Reunion

Voting strength· (parliamentary election 1981) Union for French Democracy - Rally for the Republic coalition elected two deputies; the Socialists elected one; in the 1983 Regional Assembly election, leftist parties received 45.7% of the vote

Communists: Communist Party small hut has support among sugarcane cutters and the minuscule Popular Movement for the Liberation of Reunion (MPLR)and in Le Port District

Member of: WFTU

NOTE: The information regarding Reunion 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 Reunion 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Reunion 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.