Left Party (France)
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The Left Party (French: Parti de gauche, PG) is a left-wing democratic-socialist political party in France,[2] founded in 2009 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marc Dolez after their departure from the Socialist Party (PS). The PG claims to bring together personalities and groups from different political traditions; it claims a socialist, ecologist and republican orientation.
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Left Party Parti de gauche | |
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Abbreviation | PG |
Coordinators | Éric Coquerel Danielle Simonnet |
Founders | Jean-Luc Mélenchon Marc Dolez |
Founded | 1 February 2009; 15 years ago (2009-02-01) |
Split from | Socialist Party |
Headquarters | 20–22 Rue Doudeauville, 75018 Paris |
Newspaper | L'Insoumission Hebdo |
Membership (2018) | 6,000[1] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Left-wing[8][9][10] |
National affiliation | New Ecologic and Social People's Union |
European Parliament group | European United Left-Nordic Green Left |
Colours | Red Green |
National Assembly | 25 / 577 |
Senate | 0 / 348 |
European Parliament | 2 / 74 |
Regional Councils | 7 / 1,880 |
Party flag | |
Website | |
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Politically located between the Socialist Party and the French Communist Party, the Left Party intends to federate all the sensitivities of the anti-liberal left—which they also call "the other left"—within the same alliance. In 2008, the PG joined forces with the Communist Party of the United Left and six other left-wing and far-left organizations in the coalition of the Left Front, of which Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the candidate for the presidential election.
The PG was co-chaired from 2010 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Martine Billard. In 2016, the Left Party had 8,000 members. At the end of 2014, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Martine Billard resigned, and the party leadership was then collectively ensured by the national secretariat. The weekly newspaper, L'Intérêt général (formerly À gauche) is sent to all members but also to simple subscribers. It is printed at more than 15,000 copies a week.
In 2016, in view of the presidential and legislative elections of the following year, Jean-Luc Mélenchon formed a new movement, La France Insoumise, that the Left Party helped to animate.