Radical Party (France)
The Parti radical (German Radical Party, often called the Parti radical valoisien ) is a political party in France. The party is since 2011 part of the party Alliance Alliance républicaine, écologiste et sociale, previously she was associate party of the UMP.
History and Covenants
The party was formed in 1972, when split off the Mouvement de la gauche Radical - Socialiste of the Parti Radical: The Radical Party was reduced as Parti radical valoisien on. While the renamed Parti radical de gauche elimination of the Social Democratic PS approached, was the Parti radical valoisien long time member of the centrist UDF.
Officially it is called while still Parti radical, to distinguish it complements but mostly the valoisien derived from the address of its headquarters in Paris on the Place de Valois. Legally, it is the oldest still existing Party, but ranges far more closer to the influence of their predecessors.
The Parti radical valoisien had claims to 7,903 members on November 29, 2009. Presented to you 2012 17 deputies in the National Assembly, who belonged to the faction of the UMP, five senators, four of which with the Parti radical de gauche form a common fraction and of the UMP has connected and a deputy in the European parliament who belongs to the Group of the EPP. The party chairman since December 2007, the French Environment Minister Jean -Louis Borloo, the Secretary-General Aymeri de Montesquiou.
Other well-known members are the Mayor of Nancy André Rossinot and the former Overseas Minister under François Fillon Yves Jégo.
Since Nicolas Sarkozy's office until November 2010, the Radical Party Deputy Prime Minister, namely the Ministre d'Etat, Minister of the Environment Borloo. In 2008, the Radical Party lost control of the last common, independent committee of the radical family, the Senate faction RDSE ( Democratic- social Confederation of Europe ) in favor of PRG.
In November 2010, initially left Jean- Louis Borloo, the Fillon government, in protest against the re- appointment Fillon as prime minister. A day later called Borloo before deputies UMP from the liberal and centrist environment a common coordination of liberal, centrist and radical parties. In its party congress on 14 and 15 May 2011, the Parti radical their withdrawal from the UMP decided. On June 26, she was républicaine founder of Alliance, écologiste et sociale ( démocrate together with Nouveau Centre, Convention and La Gauche modern ), which sees itself as an alternative to the UMP and the PS. As a result, they also left the Senate faction RDSE and joined there the Group Union centriste to which also belong to the senators of the NC and the LGM.
Ideology
The radical in the name refers to the rejection of the monarchy and the demand for the separation of church and state. Within the UMP, the party was formed, therefore, the liberal wing. This liberal tradition can be felt on the demands for reform of the state administration, but also due to the pronounced emphasis on basic freedoms.
However, the PRV was also a part of the UMP social wing, with an emphasis on the social policy and justice .. The party represents today strongly secular theories, in contrast to the explicitly Christian Socialist Parti chrétien - démocrate, a former partner within the UMP
The PRV is finally pro-European. and distinguishes itself as an ecological party, so she asked the environment minister in the cabinets Fillon I and II Fillon party leader Borloo.
Because of these trends and their history, the PRV was a relatively important part of the left wing of the French conservatives, so that within the UMP in 2012 a presidential candidacy of Jean -Louis Borloo has been considered to emphasize the autonomy of the allies of the conservative UMP political center, the located there voters but to tie for the second round to Nicolas Sarkozy.