The Ecologist Party (French: Parti écologiste, ), founded as Écologistes !, is a centre-left French political party that holds pro-European views,[2] created in September 2015 by François de Rugy, President of the Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) group in the National Assembly and Jean-Vincent Placé, the President of the EELV group in the Senate.

Ecologist Party
Parti écologiste
PresidentFrançois de Rugy
President in the National AssemblyGilles Le Gendre
FoundersFrançois de Rugy
Jean-Vincent Placé
Founded2 September 2015
Split fromEurope Ecology – The Greens
Ideology
Political positionCentre-left[1]
National affiliationEnsemble Citoyens (since 2021)
La République En Marche! (since 2017)
Union of Democrats and Ecologists (2015–2016)
ColoursBlue, green
National Assembly
1 / 577
Senate
0 / 348
Website
le-parti-ecologiste.fr

This party was initially created as a reaction to the decision taken by EELV of making alliances with the Left Front. The aim of UDE founders was to create a reformist centre-left party, accepting globalization and market economy, and supporting president François Hollande. The founders of UDE declared they wanted to become a strong ally of the Socialist Party, and attract people from EELV or from the Democratic Movement.[3][4]

Since 2017, the party is part of La Republique en Marche!.

References

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  1. ^ (in French) Écologistes ! (centre gauche) (scission de EELV en 2015)) (fondé en 2010)
  2. ^ "France".
  3. ^ (in French) [1]
  4. ^ (in French) [2]