Front de gauche

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Front de gauche
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founding November 18, 2008
resolution July 6, 2016
Alignment Democratic socialism ,
eurocommunism
EP Group European United Left / Nordic Green Left (2009-2016)
Website www.placeaupeuple.fr

The Front de gauche ( German  Left Front ) was a French election platform for the 2009 European elections . He ran again in the 2010 regional elections and in the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections . The two founding parties were the Parti de Gauche of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the Parti communiste français (PCF). In July 2016, Mélenchon declared the electoral alliance dissolved.

Foundation and sub-organizations

At the founding meeting of the Parti de gauche on November 29, 2008, the unified slogan was the core of the message to the other left parties in France. The party founders Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marc Dolez , as socialist lateral thinkers, had successfully fought against the EU constitutional treaty in 2005 with the help of communists, Trotskyists and globalization critics and wanted the front to reappear for the upcoming European elections. The PCF's response was positive, while other groups were more skeptical.

After long negotiations, the also newly founded, left-wing radical Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA) led by Olivier Besancenot rejected the proposal. Shortly afterwards, the Front de gauche kicked off the election campaign. The founding parties, d. H. the organizations that took part in the rally on March 8, 2009 were the Parti communiste français , the Parti de gauche and the (smaller) Gauche Unitaire (United Left) founded by pro-left-front dissidents from the NPA.

Extension attempts and supporters

Other parties, including Les Alternatifs , the Mouvement républicain et citoyen and various left-wing eco-parties considered participating. The Mouvement Républicain et Citoyen announced its rejection on March 22nd, due to fundamental differences . On the same day, a strike vote took place at Les Alternatifs , in which participation in the Front de gauche received only 30 percent of the votes.

When MRC party leader Chevènement announced his decision not to vote or not to choose a valid list ( vote blanc ou nul ), the Jacobin association République et Socialisme , which includes the holders of local mandates that follow the left-wing Republican or Jacobin ideology, declared the MRC confess or are party members that it would not respect Chevènement's will and called on its members to work for the success of the Front de gauche. Since the end of March, numerous MRC local associations of the Front de gauche had given their support.

Several intellectuals also campaigned for the Front de Gauche, such as the religious philosopher Henri Péna-Ruiz, the Attac co-founders Bernard Cassen and Ignacio Ramonet as well as 36 lecturers and professors of economics.

The former communist member of the National Assembly Jean-Pierre Brard and his friends from the city of Montreuil also took a stand for the front.

The Parti Communiste Réunionais, which only competes on the island of La Réunion, was also a member of the Front de gauche in the overseas territories.

European elections

The Front de Gauche presented candidates in all regions. Jean-Luc Mélenchon competed in the Southwest district, Jacques Généreux in the west as an economics teacher and Patrick Le Hyaric as the editor-in-chief of the communist newspaper L'Humanité in the Paris district. The independent human rights activist Marie-Christine Vergiat ran in the southeast, and the only top candidate, who had been MEP since 2004, was the communist politician Jacky Hénin in the northwest. Initially, the front received around 4.5 percent of the polls, three points behind the NPA. But after a very active election campaign that caught the attention of the press, the breakthrough came: on June 7, the front received 6.05% of the vote. Mélenchon came to 8.15 percent in his circle. In 2004 the PCF won two seats (in Paris and in the north-west), and the independent communist party of Reunion Island (PCR) won a seat in the overseas electoral area. In addition, there will be one mandate in the south-west and one in the south-east in 2009.

The MEPs of the Front de Gauche were therefore:

You sat in the Group of the European Left.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mélenchon achève le Front de gauche. In: lemonde.fr . July 6, 2016, accessed April 8, 2017 (French).
  2. ↑ J.-L. Mélenchon, La stratégie du Front de Gauche , www.lepartidegauche.fr
  3. ↑ Nous voulons participer à la constitution d'un front progressiste européen , www.pcf.fr ( Memento of the original of December 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pcf.fr
  4. ↑ www.lepartidegauche.fr
  5. ↑ Nous ferons front! , www.gauche-unitaire.fr ( Memento of the original of March 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gauche-unitaire.fr
  6. ↑ www.alternatifs.org
  7. ↑ Le MRC ne rejoindra pas le front de gauche , www.liberation.fr
  8. ↑ www.alternatifs.org
  9. ↑ Appel de République et Socialisme on Republiqueetsocialisme.centerblog.net
  10. ^ Henri Pena-Ruiz: " laïcité ne peut se dissocier de la justice sociale "
  11. ↑ www.frontdegauche.eu
  12. ↑ http://www.frontdegauche.eu
  13. ↑ 36 économistes soutiennent le Front de Gauche
  14. ↑ L'Alternative, in Liberation
  15. ^ Official results

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