La Gauche modern

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La Gauche Modern
founding 2007
Headquarters 89, Boulevard de Magenta
75010 Paris
Alignment Left liberalism
EP Group EPP (2009-2014)
Website www.lagauchemoderne.com

La Gauche moderne ( LGM , "The Modern Left") is a political party in France that was founded in 2007 by Jean-Marie Bockel , a former member of the Parti socialiste . The party describes itself as social liberal and belonging to the center-left. However, she supported the presidency of the Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy ( UMP ) and was part of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) in the European Parliament .

history

Party founder Jean-Marie Bockel (2007)

Current of the PS (2001-2007)

Before the LGM was founded as a separate party, from 2001 there was a club called Gauche moderne within the Parti socialiste (PS) , which advocated a liberal social policy based on the model of British Prime Minister Tony Blair . The lead motion “For a liberal socialism” initiated by the Senator and Mayor of Mulhouse in Alsace, Jean-Marie Bockel , received 0.64% of the delegate's votes at the PS party congress in Le Mans in 2005 .

Nicolas Sarkozy of the conservative Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP) declared an overture ("opening") of his government after his victory in the presidential election in 2007 , i. H. he invited politicians from other parties to participate. Jean-Marie Bockel accepted the offer and was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in June 2007.

Allies of the UMP (2007-2011)

Since the PS refused to participate in the government, Bockel was expelled from the party. Thereupon he converted La Gauche modern from an inner-party current into a separate party, the first party congress of which was held on November 29 and 30, 2007. One of the founding members was Sophia Chikirou , former spokeswoman for Laurent Fabius (however, she switched to Parti de gauche a year later ). In addition, La Diagonale , a “left sarcocyst” group, joined the LGM. Éric Besson , another former PS member who defected to the Sarkozy government, did not join the LGM, but formed Les Progressistes as a current within the UMP.

LGM had two seats in the Senate until 2011 (Jean-Marie Bockel, Daniel Marsin ), then one. She was never represented in the National Assembly. The party was part of the UMP-led electoral alliance Majorité présidentielle until 2011 and was represented by its chairman Bockel in the Comité de liaison de la majorité présidentielle . The small party was also financially dependent on the UMP: In 2008, LGM received 11,355 euros in membership fees and 62,460 euros in donations, while it received 100,000 euros from the UMP. In 2009, LGM had 1,500 members.

In the 2008 French local elections, in which LGM ran for the first time, the party won around forty seats. In some cities, however, LGM members who had previously been elected to the PS lost their seats to new PS candidates. Jean-Marie Bockel was re-elected as Mayor of Mulhouse in Alsace with the support of the UMP and other center-right parties .

In the 2009 European elections , LGM and Nouveau Center , another small party, entered the list of the conservative UMP and won two seats in the European Parliament . Your two MEPs, Marielle Gallo and Michèle Striffler, sat in the Christian Democratic EPP group until 2014 . In the regional elections in 2010, LGM received one seat each on the regional councils of Guadeloupe and La Réunion and two in Alsace .

After Bockel left the government at the end of 2010, LGM broke away from the UMP. In June 2011, the LGM formed the Alliance républicaine, écologiste et sociale with the Parti radical under Jean-Louis Borloo and other small parties in the center as an alliance for the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2012 . In the end, contrary to the original announcement, the alliance decided not to have its own presidential candidate; instead, LGM called for the re-election of Nicolas Sarkozy. Two board members who wanted to support François Hollande instead , left the party and founded Gauche Moderne et Républicaine (GMR). In the parliamentary elections in June 2012, LGM put up its own candidates in 10 constituencies, but without success.

Part of the UDI (2012-2017)

In October 2012, the LGM merged with other small parties in the middle (Parti radical, Nouveau Center , Convention démocrate ) to form the Union des démocrates et indépendants (UDI). On December 8, 2012, the LGM signed an association agreement with the Parti radical. For the 2014 European elections , LGM ran as part of the alliance between UDI and MoDem , but its members did not make it onto the list. Bockel was re-elected as Senator in September 2014. In the 2017 presidential election , LGM called for Emmanuel Macron to be elected, thereby leaving the UDI. In September 2017, Bockel resigned from LGM's party leadership and remained a member of the UDI.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gauche modern: Jean-Marie Bockel n'a pas encore recyclé son site web. In: Politique.net , September 29, 2007.
  2. ↑ Michaela Wiegel: Sarkozy opens his government in all directions. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine , June 19, 2007.
  3. ↑ Laure Equy: La Gauche modern de Bockel pointe à la gauche de la droite. In: Liberation , November 29, 2007.
  4. ↑ Le comité de liaison de la majorité se délite avant 2012. In: Le Figaro , June 17, 2011.
  5. ↑ Noémie Mayaudon: Cartographie of micro-partis politiques. In: Slate.fr , July 20, 2010.
  6. ^ David Le Bailly: Les gâtés et les frustrés de l'UMP. In: Paris Match , December 22, 2009.
  7. ^ Bockel: "La Gauche modern ne doit pas être sectaire". In: Le Figaro , August 20, 2009.
  8. ↑ Laurent de Boissieu: La Gauche Moderne (LGM). In: France-politique.fr , March 6, 2019.
  9. Jump up ↑ Jocelyn Evans, Gilles Ivaldi: The 2012 French Presidential Elections. The Inevitable Alternation. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
  10. ↑ Laurent de Boissieu: Gauche Moderne et Républicaine (GMR). In: France-politique.fr , March 3, 2019.
  11. ↑ Laurent de Boissieu: Élections législatives 2012. In: France-politique.fr , June 5, 2019.
  12. ↑ Le Parti radical entre dans l'UDI. In: Le Figaro , December 8, 2012.
  13. ↑ Gaël Vaillant: Après les radicaux, Hervé Morin et ses amis quittent l'UDI. In: Le Journal du Dimanche , December 16, 2017.
  14. ↑ Mieux me connaître , www.jeanmariebockel.fr, accessed on February 4, 2020.