Modern Left
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The Modern Left (French: La Gauche moderne, LGM), is a centrist political party in France founded in 2007.
This article needs to be updated. (February 2017) |
Modern Left Gauche Moderne | |
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Leader | Jean-Marie Bockel |
Founded | 2007 |
Split from | Socialist Party |
Headquarters | 10 rue des Haudriettes 75003 Paris |
Ideology | Social liberalism[1] |
Political position | Centre |
National affiliation | Union of Democrats and Independents |
European Parliament group | European People's Party[2] (2009–14) |
Colours | Violet |
Seats in the National Assembly | 0 / 577 |
Seats in the Senate | 1 / 348 |
Seats in the European Parliament | 0 / 74 |
Seats in the Regional Councils | 4 / 1,880 |
The party was founded following the nomination of the former Socialist Party (PS) Senator and Mayor of Mulhouse, Jean-Marie Bockel to the François Fillon government in May 2007. Along with The Progressives of Éric Besson, the Modern Left represented the left wing of the coalition supporting the then-President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The party calls itself social-liberal[1] and supports a social market economy.
In the 2008 local elections, the party obtained around 40 councillors, and Bockel won a narrow re-election in Mulhouse. However, the LGM incumbent in Pau, Yves Uriéta, was defeated.
In the 2009 European Parliament election, the party obtained two MEPs on the lists of the Union for a Popular Movement. Both MEPs sat, like all other UMP MEPs, in the European People's Party Group.