Federation of the democratic and socialist left

The Fédération of the democratic and socialist left (created under the impulse of François Mitterrand in December 1965) is a French political organization resulting from the fusion of the parliamentary groups Socialiste and the Democratic Rassemblement, and gathering:

The FGDS profits from the semisuccess founder of the candidature of François Mitterrand which manages to put in ballot the Général de Gaulle. It forms a shadow governement whose Mitterrand is the president. It obtains a success in 1967 while making elect 121 deputies (including 4 related members of PSU). It then strongly moves back with the elections of 1968, adding up only 16,5% of the votes cast and preserving only 57 seats at the National Assembly. The deputies resulting from the Convention of the republican institutions all are eliminated except for François Mitterrand. This last is itself constrained to sit as independent because SFIO then decides to give again the priority with the assertion of its socialist identity and reconstitutes its own parliamentary group. It is the end of the FGDS.

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