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See also: PRG

The Radical left party (PRG) is a Political party French of moderate left.

Foundation and denomination

For legal reasons the opponent with the other movement resulting from the same party, the '' Radical party '' (known as valoisien), it had to change several times of name, passing from Mouvement of the left radical-Socialist (Mgr) in 1972 (year of the scission of the radical party) with Mouvement of the radical lefts (MRG) in 1973, then with Radical (movement of the radical lefts for the reform and the Republic) in 1994 then Parti radical socialist (PRS) before taking his current name the January 13rd 1998.

The MRG was born from a scission of the Radical party, because its organizers (Maurice Faure, Rene Billières, Robert Fabre, Jacques Maroselli) wished to adhere to the common Programme and supported the single-candidate election of the left, that of François Mitterrand, for the presidential election of 1974.

History

The rise to power of the Socialist party in the Années 1970 little by little marginalized it, so much so that after the candidature of Michel Crépeau in 1981, and its disappointing result of 2,09% of the voices, the party does not introduce any candidate to the presidential one. It will be necessary to await 2002 to see the party supporting its own candidate with the first tower of the presidential . At the time of the serious attack of the PS to the beginning of the year 1990, the radicals will choose Bernard Tapie for leader, whose list “Energy radical” with the European elections of 1994 will obtain 12,03% of the voices, near to the score of the PS (14,49%, list led by Michel Rocard). It will be a success without a future, in particular because of legal worries of Bernard Tapie.

The departure of Robert Fabre named in 1978 Mediator of the Republic by Valery Giscard d'Estaing, followed exclusion of several of its close relations, divides and weakens the party (the attempts at Robert Fabre to accommodate within the MRG a certain number of gaullists of left, like Léo Hamon or Jean Charbonnel had been worth to him solids enmities on behalf of the radical lefts closest to the PS).

Alternation in 1981,1988 and 1997 makes it possible the MRG then with the PRG to reach the capacity the sides of the Socialists. It takes part in the whole of the governments of the left since 1981.

Since 1981, the importance of the radical lefts declined. A scission occurs in 1982 and sees the creation of pdf. In 1984, the MRG presents a joint list with ecologists (of which Brice Lalonde) and the UCR of Olivier Stirn with the European elections. The list ERA obtains a success of regard (3,32% of the voices) but no elected official. With the legislative elections of 1986, an attempt to present autonomous lists in alliance with the MGP (Movement popular gaullist) completes to convince the MRG which alliance with the PS remains the only reasonable solution for its survival. Consequently François Doubin then Emile Zuccarelli will get busy, with the head of the PRG, to rebuild all at the same time a political identity with the radical lefts and an alliance balanced with the Socialist party.

The election of Jean-François Hory with the head of the MRG in 1992 will make it possible the MRG to take a new importance on the left, thanks to the adhesion of Bernard Tapie and its success with the European elections of 1994. But this new attempt at independence fails finally in 1995, when Jean-François Hory, credited with starveling voting intentions for the presidential election to which it stood as a candidate, gives up his candidature then for the presidency of Radical, transitory name of the MRG in the middle of the years 1990.

The PRG chooses in 2002 to be represented by a personality non-member, Christiane Taubira, appointed Guyana. This decision created within the PRG of strong tensions, several of its elected officials and leaders and in the foreground of them (ex-) the deputy and mayor of Bastia Emile Zuccarelli choosing to support the candidature of the republican Jean-Pierre Chevènement. Following this designation, Mrs Taubira, little known until there in Metropolitan France, obtains only 2,32%. She integrates temporarily the PRG in the capacity as vice-president before giving up this function in 2005 and calling with Emile Zuccarelli and a majority of deputies PRG to be voted “not” with the referendum of May 29th, 2005 on the European Constitutional treaty draft. Today the PRG appears divided between a current “social-liberal” around Jean-Michel Baylet and a republican current of left leads by Emile Zuccarelli haloed by his consecutive victories to the insular referendum then to the referendum over the TCE.

The PRG defends in particular the laic heritage in the French institutions.

Current location

The PRG counted in 2005 8 deputies and two presidents of general advices. PS and PRG live in a relative symbiosis, the two organizations having even a common association of public finance, and generally avoiding having competitors at the time of the 1st turn of the legislative elections. Of 1997 with 2002, the deputies of the PRG sat at the National Assembly at the sides of the Verts and the chevenementists within the group RCV ( Radical, citizen and green ); the radical lefts, in the incapacity to reform an autonomous group after 2002, sit today like related in the socialist group for 6 of them or without label for the two others: Emile Zuccarelli and Gerard Charasse. They continue on the other hand the original experiment of their common group democratic and social Rassemblement European (RDSE) with the Radical party “valoisien”, rather of center-right, with the Senate.

On May 15th and 16th 2007, the respective presidents of the Radical party valoisien and the PRG announced their will to meet and to gather, putting thus fine at 35 years of separation, to create a " great force centrale". But of the elected officials and the executives of the PRG are opposed to it.

The president of the PRG is Jean-Michel Baylet.

Former presidents: Robert Fabre (1972 - 1978), Michel Crépeau (1978-1981), Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg (1981-1983), Jean-Michel Baylet (1983-1985 then 1996 -), François Doubin (1985-1988), Yvon Hake (1988-1989), Emile Zuccarelli (1989-1992), Jean-François Hory (1992 - 1995).

The JRG (Young radical lefts) constitute the youth movement of the PRG.

Elections of 2007

For the presidential election of 2007, the PRG had not immediately officialized its position. Bernard Castagnède, spokesperson, had announced: “If everyone on the left goes there, it would be surprising that we did not go there”. Christiane Taubira stood as candidate.

  • Other potential candidates: Jean-Michel Baylet, president of the PRG, Bernard Tapie (which however contradicted to be interested by a candidature in spite of persistent rumors).

  • the PRG launched a petition claiming the organization of primary elections by which “all those and all those which are recognized in the values of left will choose freely: the left-wing candidate to the presidential election. ”

Finally, on Sunday, October 22, the militants of the PRG joined together in extraordinary congress validated with a strong majority the strategy of union with the Socialist party as of the first turn of the presidential election. 473 deputy approved it against 208 which was opposed there at the time of a vote at the conclusion of a two days extraordinary congress to Paris. The concluding of an global agreement between the PS and the PRG for legislative the 2007 was indeed conditioned by the PS with the fact that the PRG supports the socialist candidate as of the first turn. 36 electoral constituencies are reserved for the PRG. But the results of these legislative elections are average enough for the PRG, which obtains however 9 deputies, of which Christiane Taubira (to be compared with the 8 outgoing ones), including five women, while several of its outgoing are beaten (Emile Zuccarelli, Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg, François Huwart…). Fault of having obtained the reduction with 15 deputies of the threshold of constitution of a parliamentary Group, the deputies radical lefts finally decides to constitute the group Socialiste, radical, citizen (SRC) with the deputies of the Socialist party and the Republican movement and citizen. Group SRC is chaired by Jean-Marc Ayrault.

Elected or re-elected deputies in June 2007

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds is

  • Official site of the Radical left party
  • Site of the Young radical lefts
  • Which the ideas of the Radical left party?

Sources

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