New Anticapitalist Party
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Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste
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| Leader | Collective leadership (Central Committee) ; Main spokesperson : Christine Poupin |
| Founded | 8 February 2009 |
| Headquarters | 2, rue Richard-Lenoir 93100 Montreuil |
| Ideology |
Anti-capitalism Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Alter-globalization Anti-nationalism Anti-racism Progressivism Feminism Neo-communism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| European affiliation | European Anticapitalist Left |
| Colours | Red |
| Members |
 2,100 (2015) |
| Seats in the National Assembly |
0 / 577
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| Seats in the Senate |
0 / 343
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| Seats in the European Parliament |
0 / 72
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| Seats in Regional Councils |
2 / 1,880
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| Website | |
| www.npa2009.org | |
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Constitution of France Parliament; government; president |
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The New Anticapitalist Party (French: Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste [nuvo paʁti ɑ̃tikapitaˈlist], NPA) is a far-left French political party founded in February 2009. Its name was originally intended to be temporary; a vote on the name being held at the founding congress on 6–8 February 2009, where NPA won over "Revolutionary Anticapitalist Party" (Parti anticapitaliste révolutionnaire) with 53% of the vote.
The party launched with 9,200 members and was intended to unify the fractured movements of the French radical Left, and attract new activists drawing on the combined strength of far-left parties in presidential elections in 2002, where they achieved 10.44% of the vote. (Being 7% in 2007 and 13% in 2012).
The party is closely associated with postal worker Olivier Besancenot, the main spokesman of the former strongest far left party, the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR). In March 2011, Myriam Martin and Christine Poupin were elected the main spokespersons of the NPA. In May 2012, Myriam Martin supported the candidate of the Left Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2012 presidential election against the candidate of the NPA, a worker and union activist at Ford's car plant in Bordeaux Philippe Poutou, who came eighth in the first round with 411,160 votes, 1.15% of the total votes. She left the NPA in July 2012.
At the founding conference (6 to 8 February 2009), 630 delegates voted on a series of documents, which had gone through a long process of amendment and re-amendment in local and regional assemblies.
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