Radical Party of the Left
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Radical Party of the Left
Parti Radical de Gauche |
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| Abbreviation | PRG |
| President | Sylvia Pinel |
| Founder | Maurice Faure |
| Founded | 1971 (GEARS) 1972 (MGRS) 1973 (MRG) 1994 (Radical) 1996 (PRS) 1998 (PRG) |
| Split from | Radical Party |
| Headquarters | 13, Rue Duroc F - 75007, Paris |
| Youth wing | Young Radicals of the Left |
| Ideology |
Social liberalism Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Colours | Yellow, Azure |
| National Assembly |
13 / 577
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| Senate |
13 / 348
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| European Parliament |
1 / 74
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| Regional Councils |
54 / 1,764
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| Website | |
| partiradicaldegauche |
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The Radical Party of the Left (French: Parti Radical de Gauche, PRG) is a social-liberalpolitical party in France. It has been a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France, the Socialist Party (PS), since 1972.
The President of the PRG is Sylvia Pinel and its Secretary-General is Guillaume Lacroix. The party's sole MEP is Virginie Rozière, who sits with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group.
The party's youth wing is the Young Radicals of the Left. The party was formerly a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.
The party was formed in 1972 by a split from the Republican, Radical, and Radical-Socialist Party, once the dominant party of the French Left. It was founded by Radicals who opposed Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's centrist direction and chose to join the Union of the Left and agree to the Common Programme signed by the Socialist Party (PS) and the French Communist Party (PCF). At that time the party was known as the Movement of the Radical Socialist Left (Mouvement de la Gauche Radicale-Socialiste, MGRS), then as the Movement of Radicals of the Left (Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche, MRG) after 1973.
Led by Robert Fabre during the 1970s, the party was the third partner of the Union of the Left. Nevertheless, its electoral influence did not compare with those of its two allies, which competed for the leadership over the left. Robert Fabre sought to attract left-wing Gaullists to the party and gradually became close to President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who nominated him as Mediator of the Republic in 1978. He and his followers were excluded from the party by those who strongly supported the alliance with the PS.
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