Left Front (France)
The Front de gauche ( German Left Front ) is a French election platform for the European elections in 2009., You stepped up to the regional elections of 2010 and to the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2012 again. The two founders parties are Jean -Luc Mélenchon Parti de gauche and the Parti Communiste français ( PCF).
Foundation and sub-organizations
Even at the founding meeting of the Parti de gauche 29 November 2008 was the unity slogan of the essence of the message to the other left-wing parties in France. Party founder Jean -Luc Mélenchon and Marc Dolez had fought as a socialist thinker against the EU Constitutional Treaty in 2005 successfully using the communists, Trotskyists and globalization critics, and wanted to let this front in the coming European elections resurface. The response of the PCF was found to be positive, while other groups showed more skeptical.
After long negotiations, the newly formed also linksradikalere Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste by Olivier Besancenot gave the proposal a rejection. Shortly after the election campaign of the Front de gauche took place. The founders parties, ie the organizations that took part in the rally of March 8, the Parti Communiste Français, the Parti de Gauche and the (smaller) Gauche Unitaire (Uniform Left ), founded by pro- Left Front dissidents of the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste had been.
Extension experiments and supporters
Other parties, including Les alternatifs, the Mouvement citoyen et républicain and various left-wing eco - parties contemplated participation. The Mouvement Républicain et Citoyen announced its rejection on 22 March that because of fundamental differences. On the same day a ballot took place at Les alternatifs in which de gauche received only 30 percent of the vote to take part in the front.
As MRC party leader Chevènement announced his decision not to go to vote or to choose not a valid list ( vote blanc ou nul ), but said the Jacobin club République et Socialisme, which includes the support of local terms, which is to the left Republican or Jacobin ideology the MRC confess or party members that he would not respect Chevènement will, and called its members to commit themselves to the success of the front de gauche. Since the end of March a number of MRC- local associations of the Front de gauche have given their support.
Several intellectuals have made strong for the Front de Gauche, about the religious philosopher Henri Pena -Ruiz, the co-founder Bernard Cassen of Attac and Ignacio Ramonet, and 36 lecturers and professors of economics.
The former communist, now the " Alternative Progressive " National Assembly deputy Jean -Pierre Brard and his friends have taken the city of Montreuil position for the front.
The Parti Communiste Réunionais that sets out only on the island of La Réunion, is also a member of the Front de gauche in the circle of overseas territories.
European elections
Jacques Généreux, Professor of Economics, Parti de gauche
Christian Picquet, spokesman for the Gauche Unitaire
Jean -Luc Mélenchon, President of the Parti de gauche
The Front de Gauche presented candidates in all regions. Noteworthy are the footing of Jean -Luc Mélenchon in a circle Southwest, economics teacher Jacques Généreux in the west, and the chief editor of the Communist newspaper L' Humanité Patrick Le Hyaric in the Paris district. The independent human rights activist Marie -Christine Vergiat occurred in the southeast, and the only leading candidate who was already MEP since 2004, the communist politician Jacky Henin in the northwest was. Initially, the front was about 4.5 percent of survey result, three points behind the NPA. But after a very active election campaign, which focused the attention of the press, came the breakthrough: On June 7, the front received 6.05 % of votes. Mélenchon came to 8.15 percent in his circle. 2004 the PCF had won two seats won ( in Paris and in the northwest), and the independent Communist Party of Reunion Island (PCR ) a seat in the overseas electoral area. These are 2009 each have a mandate in the southwest and the southeast.
The MEP of the Front de Gauche are therefore:
- Jacky Henin ( NW, PCF)
- Hélie Hoarau ( overseas PCR)
- Patrick Le Hyaric (Ile de France, PCF)
- Jean -Luc Mélenchon (SW, PG)
- Marie -Christine Vergiat (SO, independent)
They will sit in the Group of the European Left.