Volt France

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Volt France
AbbreviationVolt
PresidentCécile Richard,
Adrien Copros
Chairperson Antoine Jendzio-Verdasca,
Alexandre Bisquerra,
Marianne Ranke Cormier
Secretary-GeneralSacha Courtial
Founded16 August 2018;5 years ago (2018-08-16)
Headquarters Paris
Ideology European federalism
Social liberalism
Progressivism
European affiliation Volt Europa
Colors  Purple
Website
voltfrance.org

Volt France (abbreviation: Volt) is a social liberal political party in France and the French branch of Volt Europa.

Contents

Policies

The main focus of Volt is the reform and further development of the European Union, which should become more transparent and participatory. The party wants to make the structures of the EU more democratic, have the EU President elected directly and a european government. [1] The European Parliament should be given the right of initiative to enact laws itself and establish majority decisions in the European Council instead of unanimity. [2]

This is to be accompanied by a common European security and defence policy, the promotion of the green economy and the strengthening of workers' rights. [2]

Volt criticised the implementation of the pension reform and called for the continuation of debates in parliament and the organisation of public debates like the one on climate change in order to build public consensus and greater solidarity between generations. [3]

The party is in favour of an accelerated ecological transformation and a sustainable economy with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. Volt is in favour of expanding Erasmus and promoting culture. Migration should be controlled at European level and EU countries should stand together in solidarity. [4]

History

Volt France was founded in February 2018 and officially registered as a party in August of the same year. [5] The motivation for the founding was rising populism throughout Europe, which worried the founders and culminated in Brexit. Therefore, they felt it was their responsibility to take action to move Europe forward. [2]

The party initially planned to contest the 2019 European elections with Colombe Cahen-Salvador and Louis Drounau as leading candidates and drew up a list for this. [6] [7] However, due to a lack of funding, the party was unable to contest. [8] For the first time, the party contested the 2020 local elections in different cities.

In October 2021, Fabiola Conti and Sven Franck were elected as chairpersons. [9] Écile Richard and Adrien Copros were elected as their successors in September 2023. [10]

Elections

Local elections 2020

Volt participated in the 2020 French municipal elections in some cities, but did not achieve a mandate:

Regional and local elections 2021

Volt participated in the 2021 regional elections in the Île-de-France region with a list consisting of Volt, Pace-Nous Citoyen, A Nous al Démocatie and obtained 0.17% (3 629 votes). [17] In the Hauts-de-France region, the joint list of Pace, Volt, Allons Enfants and Nous Citoyens reached 0.5% (6 700 votes). [18] In both regions, the second round was not reached.

In Brittany, Volt put forward a joint list of LREM, TdP, MoDem, UDI, Agir and Volt, which achieved 15.53% in the first round, 14.75% in the second round and 9 mandates, none of which, however, went to Volt. [19]

The party also participated in departmental elections in Strasbourg 1 (1.16%) and in Aix-en-Provence-2 (0.59%). [20] [21]

National sections of Volt Europa. The borders of the European Union are shown in red. Karte Volt Europa.svg
National sections of Volt Europa. The borders of the European Union are shown in red.

Parliamentary election 2022

In the 2022 parliamentary elections, Volt participated in 12 of the 566 constituencies in France and overseas territories and in 5 of the 11 constituencies for French citizens abroad. In total, Volt was represented by candidates in 17 out of 577 constituencies.

The party achieved its best result in the national constituencies in the 5th constituency of the département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques with 3.25%. [22] Volt's best overall election result was in the 7th constituency of the French Abroad (Central Europe) with 4.97%. [23]

After the election, controversy arose in Nantes after some of the ballot papers for Volt were not delivered, so that in some polling stations no ballot papers for Volt were available. The party then filed a complaint with the Constitutional Council. [24] [25]

European election 2024

In October 2023, the party nominated Sven Franck and Rayna Stamboliyska as top candidates for the European elections 2024. [26] On 8 February, Volt announced together with the parties Régions et peuples solidaires and Parti radical de gauche that they would be cooperating in the European elections and running with a joint list. [27] In March, the parties presented their joint list Europe Territoires Écologie, which, alongside Volt, consists of the Parti radical de gauche , Régions et Peuples Solidaires, Collectif des social-démocrates réformateurs, Movement of Progressives and Citizens' Movement. [28]

To remind people of the urgency of going to the polls and to emphasise the importance of Europe, representatives of the party crossed France in February with a European flag along the path of the Olympic flame. [29]

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