Ensemble!
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Ensemble!
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| Founded | 23 November 2013 |
| Membership | 2,500 |
| Ideology |
Socialism Ecosocialism Anti-globalization |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National Assembly |
2 / 577
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| Senate |
0 / 348
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| European Parliament |
0 / 74
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| Departmental councils |
0 / 4,108
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| Regional councils |
0 / 1,758
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| Presidency of departmental councils |
0 / 101
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| Presidency of regional councils |
0 / 17
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| Website | |
| ensemble-fdg.org | |
Ensemble (sometimes written Ensemble!, full name in French "Ensemble - Mouvement pour une Alternative de Gauche, Ecologique et Solidaire") is a French political party, defining itself as anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist, and ecosocialist, which was launched in November 2013 by several smaller groupings, including:
The membership of Ensemble is thus made up of activists coming from various left-wing and radical political traditions: altercommunist, trotskyist, feminist, "red-green", ecologist, etc., as well as trade unionists and global justice activists (alterglobalists).
Paid-up membership in June 2015 was approximately 1,200 (internal sources), with several hundred sympathisers.
The movement is a member of the Left Front (France) (French: Front de Gauche), which also includes the French Communist Party and the Left Party (Parti de Gauche). The candidate of the Left Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the Left Party, obtained 11.1% of the votes in the first round of the French presidential election, 2012.
Ensemble aims towards strengthening the Left Front by building a broad movement against austerity. It opposes all forms of inequality, racism, and oppression, including homophobia, islamophobia, and antisemitism, and seeks to develop links with anti-capitalist groupings outside the Left Front, including more left-wing members of Europe Ecology - The Greens (French: Europe Ecologie-Les Verts). Internationally, it has been involved in discussions and joint activities with the Party of the European Left, Podemos (Spain), Syriza (Greece), Sinn Féin (Ireland), the Left Bloc (Portugal), and others.
Ensemble was formally constituted at a conference held 31 January-1 February 2015 in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis). Considering that the merger process had been successfully completed, most of its founding groups then decided to dissolve themselves.
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