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Left Party (France)

Left Party
Parti de gauche
AbbreviationPG
CoordinatorsÉric Coquerel
Danielle Simonnet
FoundersJean-Luc Mélenchon
Marc Dolez
Founded1 February 2009 (2009-02-01)
Split fromSocialist Party
Headquarters20–22 Rue Doudeauville, 75018 Paris
NewspaperL'Insoumission Hebdo
Membership (2018)Decrease 6,000[1]
Ideology
Political positionLeft-wing[8][9][10]
National affiliationNew Popular Front (2024–present)
New Ecological and Social People's Union (2022–2024)
European Parliament groupEuropean 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
Website
www.lepartidegauche.fr Edit this at Wikidata

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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  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "Nicolas Sarkozy has left France's presidential race with a warning about lurching to 'extremes'". The Independent. 2016-11-21. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  10. ^ "Paris beach party under fire for 'indecent' Tel Aviv theme". The Week UK. 10 August 2015. Retrieved 2022-06-07.

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