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Modern Left
Gauche ModerneLeader Jean-Marie Bockel Founded 2007 Headquarters 10 rue des Haudriettes
75003 ParisIdeology Social liberalism[1],
Third WayInternational affiliation None European affiliation None European Parliament Group Group of the European People's Party[2] Official colours Violet Seats in the National Assembly 0 / 577Seats in the Senate 2 / 343Seats in the European Parliament 2 / 72Seats in the Regional Councils 4 / 1,880Website www.lagauchemoderne.org The Modern Left (La Gauche moderne, LGM), is a French centrist political party founded in 2007.
The party was founded following the nomination of the former Socialist Senator and Mayor of Mulhouse, Jean-Marie Bockel to the François Fillon government in May 2007. Along with The Progressives of Éric Besson, the Modern Left represents the left wing of the coalition supporting President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The party calls itself social liberal[1] and supports a social market economy .
In the 2008 local elections, the party obtained around 40 councillors, and Bockel won a narrow re-election in Mulhouse. However, the LGM incumbent in Pau, Yves Uriéta, was defeated.
In the 2009 European Parliament election, the party obtained two MEPs on the lists of the Union for a Popular Movement. Both MEPs sit, like all other UMP MEPs, in the group of the centre-right European People's Party
The LGM is a member of the Liaison Committee for the Presidential Majority.
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Elected officials
- Senators: Daniel Marsin, Jean-Marie Bockel (RDSE)
- MEPs: Michèle Striffler, Marielle Gallo (EPP)
Jean-Marie Bockel was Mayor of Mulhouse from 1989 to 2010 and the party claims a number of councillors in various cities throughout the country.
In addition, Bockel is Secretary of State for Justice and Liberties in the Fillon II government.
See also
References
- ^ a b Bockel crée la Gauche moderne et s'allie à l'UMP (Bockel creates the Modern Left and allies with the UMP), Challenges.fr (in French), 26 Sep 2007, http://www.challenges.fr/actualites/business/20070926.CHA1001/bockel_cree_la_gauche_moderne_et_sallie_a_lump.html, retrieved 28 June 2011
- ^ http://www.eppgroup.eu/home/docs/eppgroup-members-list-240609.pdf List of members of the EPP group
External links
Categories:- Left-wing parties in France
- Political parties of the Fifth Republic
- Political parties established in 2007
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