evidence: French Guiana is governed by the provisions of the French constitution as a territorial collectivity of France and, as such, forms an integral part of the French Republic. It sends two elected representatives to the National Assembly and two to the Senate. Local government is headed by a prefect and by a 51-member Assembly whose members are elected by universal adult suffrage. There is a local court of appeal. The principal political parties are the Guianese Socialist Party and the Union for a Popular Movement. Other political parties include the Movement for Decolonization and Social Emancipation, the Guiana Democratic Forces, and Walwari, a leftist party whose founder Christiane Taubira served as minister of justice in the administration of French President François Hollande.