MARTINIQUE (Continued)
Branches: executive, Commissioner appointed by Paris; legislative, popularly elected council of 36 members and a Regional Council including all members of the local general council and the locally elected deputies and senators to the French parliament; judicial, under jurisdiction of French judicial system
Government leader: Commissioner of the Republic Jean CHEVANCE
Suffrage: universal over age 18
Elections: General Council elections normally are held every five years; last General Council election took place in June 1981
Political parties and leaders: Rally for the Republic (RPR), Emile Maurice; Progressive Party of Martinique (PPM), Aimé Césaire; Communist Party of Martinique (PCM), Armand Nicolas; Democratic Union of Martinique (UDM), Léon-Laurent Valère
Voting strength: RPR, 1 seat in French National Assembly; PPM, 1 seat; UDM, 1 seat
Communists: 1,000 estimated
Other political or pressure groups: Proletarian Action Group (GAP), Socialist Revolution Group (GRS), Martinique Independence Movement (MIM)
ECONOMY
GNP: $1,169 million (1977 at current prices), $3,570 per capita
Agriculture: bananas, sugarcane, and pineapples
Major industries: agricultural processing, particularly sugar milling and rum distillation; cement, oil refining, and tourism
Electric power: 65,000 kW capacity (1981); 250 million kWh produced (1981), 796 kWh per capita
Exports: $166 million (f.o.b., 1978); bananas, refined petroleum products, rum, sugar, pineapples
Imports: $545 million (c.i.f., 1978); foodstuffs, clothing and other consumer goods, raw materials and supplies, and petroleum products
Major trade partners: exports—56% France (1978); imports—62% France, 28% EEC and franc zone, 4.5% US, 5.5% other (1977)
Aid: economic—bilateral ODA and OOF commitments (1970-79) from Western (non-US) countries, $2.6 billion; no military aid
Monetary conversion rate: 4.21 French francs=US$l (1980)
Fiscal year: calendar year
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: none
Highways: 1,680 km total; 1,300 km paved, 380 km gravel and earth
Ports: 1 major (Fort-de-France), 5 minor
Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft
Airfields: 3 total; 3 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m
Telecommunications: domestic facilities inadequate; 38,500 telephones (12.2 per 100 popl.); interisland VHF and UHF radio links; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station; 1 AM, 1 FM, and 7 TV stations
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 77,000; 40,000 fit for military service
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