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Left Party (France)
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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 |
| Split from | Socialist Party |
| Headquarters | 20–22 Rue Doudeauville, 75018 Paris |
| Newspaper | L'Insoumission Hebdo (until 2022) |
| Membership (2018) |  6,000[1] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing[8][9][10] |
| National affiliation | New Popular Front (2024–present) New Ecological and Social People's Union (2022–2024) |
| European Parliament group | European United Left-Nordic Green Left |
| Colours | Red Green |
| National Assembly | 20 / 577 |
| Senate | 0 / 348 |
| European Parliament | 2 / 74 |
| Regional Councils | 7 / 1,880 |
| Party flag | |
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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.
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.
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- ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2012). "France". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 20 March 2017.
- ^ Zaretsky, Robert (5 September 2013). "Adrift in a Zéro-Polaire World". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
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- ^ Denis Tugdual (5 April 2013). "Le Pen-Mélenchon: la mode est au langage populiste". L'Express (in French).
- ^ Jean-Laurent Cassely (15 April 2013). "Le populisme "vintage" de Jean-Luc Mélenchon, trop élaboré pour être efficace". Slate (in French).
- ^ Adler, David (January 10, 2019). "Meet Europe's Left Nationalists". Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved May 23, 2019 – via www.thenation.com.
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help) - ^ "France promises €5 million to fight period poverty". The Local France. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
Paris city councillor and member of the French left-wing Parti de Gauche (PG) Danielle Simonnet shows a tampon during a meeting to mark International Women's Day.
- ^ "Nicolas Sarkozy has left France's presidential race with a warning about lurching to 'extremes'". The Independent. 2016-11-21. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ^ "Paris beach party under fire for 'indecent' Tel Aviv theme". The Week UK. 10 August 2015. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
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