Citizen and Republican Movement

The Mouvement citoyen et républicain ( German Civic Republican Movement ) is a left republican party in France. A counterpart in the party scenery in the German-speaking states can not be determined. Economic and social policy of the MRC is to be regarded as the far left standing, while particularly in cultural and foreign policy issues rather right ( nationalist ) positions are represented. The party is set to Euro - skepticism.

The party is the successor party of the Mouvement des citoyens (MDC ), which disbanded in 2002. The MDC was founded by Jean -Pierre Chevènement, who had left the Socialist Party in 1993 because of Operation Desert Storm and the pro-European attitude of the Socialist Party. The loss of all seats of the MDC in the parliamentary elections of 2002 led CHEVENEMENT in 2003 to found the Mouvement citoyen et républicain. He was defeated in his stronghold Territoire de Belfort.

The establishment 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 in the presidential election of 2007, the candidate of the Socialist Party, Segolene Royal, to prevent another shock like 2002, when it last but not least due to fragmentation of the center-left camp to a runoff between the liberal-conservative Jacques Chirac and the right-wing extremist Jean -Marie Le Pen came. The MRC sent in the 2007 parliamentary elections, his candidates in the race, so also Chevènement in Territoire de Belfort, where he had lost his seat in 2002 to the conservative UMP. He himself did not make it to regain his seat, but a former Gaullist left - Christian Hutin - won the election in the department of Nord.

The party is currently (2012 ) three members in the National Assembly who are members of the Group of Socialists and a senator who sits with the Communists in the Senate. In addition, 15 regional councils and six General Councils of the MRC.