The Greens was a centre-left to left-wing green-ecologist political party in France. The Greens had been in existence since 1984,but their spiritual roots could be traced as far back as RenéDumont's candidacy for the presidency in 1974. On 13 November 2010,The Greens merged with Europe Ecology to become Europe Ecology –The Greens.
Alain Lipietz is a French engineer,economist and politician,a former Member of the European Parliament,and a member of the French Green Party. He has,however,been suspended from the party since 25 March 2014 and is an elected local politician in Val de Bièvre,Paris,France.
The French Communist Party is a communist party in France. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left,and its MEPs sit with The Left in the European Parliament –GUE/NGL group.
Municipal elections were held in France on 11 and 18 March 2001. These elections were marked by a setback for the left and a victory for the right one year before the 2002 presidential election. However,the capital,Paris and the second largest city,Lyon both switched to the left.
The French municipal elections of 2008 were held on 9 and 16 March to elect the municipal councils of France's 36,782 communes. The first task of each newly constituted municipal council was to elect a mayor.
The Democratic and Republican Left group is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of the French Communist Party (PCF) as well as leftist parties with bases in Overseas France.
The Left Party is a left-wing democratic-socialist political party in France,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.
The Left Front was a French electoral alliance and a political movement created for the 2009 European elections by the French Communist Party and the Left Party when a left-wing minority faction decided to leave the Socialist Party,and the Unitary Left,a group which left the New Anticapitalist Party. The alliance was subsequently extended for the 2010 regional elections and the 2012 presidential election and the subsequent parliamentary election.
Legislative elections were held in France on 10 and 17 June 2012 to select the members of the 14th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic,a little over a month after the presidential election run-off held on 6 May.
The second constituency for French residents overseas is one of eleven constituencies representing French citizens living abroad. It was created by the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies and elects,since 2012,one representative to the National Assembly.
The Seventh constituency for French residents overseas is one of eleven constituencies each electing one representative of French citizens overseas to the French National Assembly.
Clémentine Autain is a French politician and journalist who has represented the 11th constituency of the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the National Assembly since 2017. She is a member of La France Insoumise (LFI).
Emmanuelle Cosse is a French activist with LGBT and feminist groups,and a politician with the green party Europe Ecology –The Greens,as well as a journalist and magazine editor.
The Ecologists,formerly known as Europe Ecology –The Greens is a centre-left to left-wing green political party in France. The party is a member of the European Green Party. The party was formed on 13 November 2010 from the merger of The Greens and Europe Ecology.
Sergio Coronado is a French politician,former member of the French National Assembly representing French residents overseas.
The Socialist Party is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. It holds pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major political parties in the French Fifth Republic,along with The Republicans. It replaced the earlier French Section of the Workers' International in 1969 and is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists,Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
La France Insoumise is a left-wing populist political party in France,launched in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon,then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former co-president of the Left Party (PG). It aims to implement the eco-socialist and democratic socialist programme L'Avenir en commun.
Jacques Boutault is a French politician member of Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV) and the mayor of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris between 2001 and 2020.
Sylvie Wieviorka,is a French psychiatrist,academic,and politician.
The New Ecological and Social People's Union is a left-wing electoral alliance of political parties in France. Formed on May Day 2022,the alliance includes La France Insoumise (LFI),the Socialist Party (PS),the French Communist Party (PCF),Europe Ecology –The Greens (EELV),Ensemble! (E!),and Génération.s (G.s),and their respective smaller partners. It was the first wide left-wing political alliance since the Plural Left in the 1997 French legislative election. Over 70 dissident candidates who refused the accord still ran.
