Animalist Party

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Animalist Party
Parti animaliste
PresidentHélène Thouy [1]
Founded14 March 2016
Headquarters Vénissieux
Membership (2017)2,000 [2]
Ideology Animal welfare [1]
Animal rights [1]
Political position Left-wing [3]
European affiliation Animal Politics EU
Colours  Violet
Website
parti-animaliste.fr

The Animalist Party (French : Parti animaliste) is a French political party focused on animal rights and against cruelty to animals. [4]

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History

For the 2022 French legislative election, the party presented 421 candidates in the first round of this election, with the primary objective not of obtaining seats but of highlighting the theme of the animal cause in France. [5]

Election results

Animalist Party (left of image) campaign poster for the 2022 French legislative election in Val-de-Marne's 5th constituency Affiches electorales legislatives 2022.jpg
Animalist Party (left of image) campaign poster for the 2022 French legislative election in Val-de-Marne's 5th constituency

National Assembly

Election yearVotes%Seats+/−
2017 63,6370.28
0 / 577
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2022 [6] 255 7121.12
0 / 577
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Any vote received brings in 1,42 € per year for the five years of the mandate. With its 63,637 votes, the animalist party has thus benefited from a total of 45,000 € in subsidies for the last five years. The money earned in 2022 is expected to be much higher. [7]

European Parliament

ElectionLeaderVotes%Seats+/−EP Group
2019 Hélène Thouy 490,0742.16 (#11)
0 / 79
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2024 494,3562.01 (#10)
0 / 81
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See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gérard, Mathilde (14 June 2022). "French legislative elections: Mixed results for the Parti Animaliste". Le Monde . Paris.
  2. Joanne Saade (12 July 2017). "Après les législatives, le parti animaliste veut transformer l'essai". Libération. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  3. Graulle, Pauline (21 March 2022). "Who's Who on the French Left?". Rosa Luxemburg Foundation . On the French Left, six candidates are running to become president of France. Neither Christiane Taubira, François Hollande's former justice minister, nor the Trotskyist Annasse Kazib, nor Hélène Thouy of the Animalist Party managed to obtain the 500 signatures from elected representatives, the key for admission to the presidential race.
  4. "Détail d'une annonce". Associations — Journal Officiel (in French). Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  5. "Législatives 2022. Coup de projecteur sur le parti Animaliste, présent dans presque toutes les circonscriptions de Bretagne". France 3 Bretagne (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  6. "French legislative elections: Mixed results for the Parti Animaliste". Le Monde.fr. 14 June 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  7. "Législatives 2022. Coup de projecteur sur le parti Animaliste, présent dans presque toutes les circonscriptions de Bretagne ?". France 3 Bretagne (in French). Retrieved 30 May 2022.