Mouvement republicain et citoyen
| Mouvement républicain et citoyen Civic republican movement |
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 Georges Sarre |
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| Party leader |
Jean-Luc Laurent (President of the party) Georges Sarre (President of the National Council) |
| Deputy Chairman | Marie-Françoise Bechtel (1st deputy) , Christian Hutin (2nd deputy) , Catherine Coutard (3rd deputy) |
| Honorary Chairman | Jean-Pierre Chevènement |
| founding | January 25 - January 26, 2003 |
| Place of foundation | Paris |
| Headquarters | 3, avenue de Corbera 75012 Paris |
| Alignment |
Democratic socialism , republicanism , EU skepticism , sovereignty , social democracy |
| Colours) | Red , blue |
| Parliament seats |
1/577 1/348 |
| Number of members | 600 ( 2017 ) |
| European party | Europeans United for Democracy |
| Website | www.mrc-france.org |
The Mouvement républicain et citoyen (German Citizenship-Republican Movement ) was a left-wing Republican party in France . A counterpart in the party landscape of the German-speaking countries cannot be identified. In terms of economic and social policy, she represented left-wing positions that can also be described as democratic-socialist or left-wing social-democratic , while she represented sovereignist views on cultural, European and foreign policy issues . Thus she was one of the EU-critical parties in France.
history
The party was the successor to the Mouvement des citoyens (MDC), which disbanded in 2002. The MDC was founded by Jean-Pierre Chevènement , who left the Socialist Party in 1993 because of Operation Desert Storm and the Socialist Party's approval of the Maastricht Treaty . The loss of all seats of the MDC in the parliamentary elections in 2002 prompted Chevénement to found the Mouvement républicain et citoyen in 2003. He himself was defeated in his stronghold Territoire de Belfort .
The creation of the MRC meant a reorganization of the left. The Pôle republicain should include all "Republicans from left to right". Chevènement and the MRC supported the Socialist Party's candidate , Ségolène Royal , in the 2007 presidential elections , in order to prevent another shock like the one in 2002, when there was a runoff election between the conservative-liberal Jacques Chirac, not least due to a fragmentation of the center-left camp and right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen came. The MRC sent its candidates in the 2007 parliamentary elections , including Chevènement in the Territoire de Belfort, where it lost its seat in 2002 to the conservative UMP . He did not manage to regain his seat himself, but Christian Hutin , a former leftist, won the election in the Nord department . After the parliamentary elections in 2012, the party had three members in the National Assembly who belonged to the Socialist faction and a senator who sat with the Communists in the Senate. In addition, 15 regional councils and 6 general councils are from the MRC. In the 2017 parliamentary elections , only Christian Hutin was able to defend his mandate in the National Assembly. The Senate seat was successfully defended in the same year.
On February 3, 2019, the party merged with the Alternative pour un program républicain, écologiste et socialiste (APRÉS) to form Gauche républicaine et socialiste (GRS).
Web links
- Le Mouvement Républicain et Citoyen - Official website