Breton Party
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| President | Yves Pelle |
| General Secretary | Gérard Guillemot |
| Spokesperson | Jean-Christophe Chorlay |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Lorient, Morbihan |
| Youth wing | Movement of Young Bretons (Ar Vretoned Yaouank) |
| Ideology |
Breton nationalism Pro-Europeanism |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | No MEPs |
| Colors | Turquoise |
| National Assembly |
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| Senate |
0 / 348
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| European Parliament |
0 / 74
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| Website | |
| www.partibreton.org | |
The Breton Party (French: Parti Breton, Breton: Strollad Breizh) is a social-democratic and social-liberal nationalist party which aspires to the creation of an independent "Republic of Brittany", within the European Union.
The movement was created in 2002. Its objective is to give Brittany the necessary institutions for its economic, social, cultural, environmental and political development. "Brittany" is defined as both the modern administrative Région of "Brittany" and the département of Loire-Atlantique, which includes Nantes, the former capital of the Duchy of Brittany. Its aspirations include regional autonomy comparable to other European regions as Flanders or Catalonia, or full independence, as with Ireland.
The main idea is that Brittany has always been a nation, therefore has rights and liberties within the European Union. The Breton Party claims the creation of a Breton State, member of the European Union, officially recognized by international authorities. It argues that beyond the principle that a nation should have independent rights, Brittany also has everything to gain by such a process of emancipation, on economic, cultural or environmental fronts.
The slogan of the Breton Party is "emancipated and reunited Brittany". Analyzing the causes for the "stagnation of the Breton political movements", the party wants "to take the Bretons as they are and not as one would like them to be". In terms of the left-right axis, the Breton Party is considered to be centrist. The main objective is first of all to create Breton political institutions. Claiming 400 members, most of whom have had no association with the earlier Breton movement, the Breton Party has members from the center-left, such as the professor and the contractor Jean-Paul Moisan from Nantes, or the center-right, such as Gérard Olliéric, the current president of the party.
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