France Unbowed La France Insoumise | |
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| Abbreviation | FI, LFI |
| Coordinator | Manuel Bompard |
| Founder | Jean-Luc Mélenchon |
| Founded | 10 February 2016 |
| Newspaper | L'Insoumission Hebdo |
| Membership (2017) |  540,000[needs update] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing[a]
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| European affiliation | European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet Now the People ! |
| European Parliament group | The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL |
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| National Assembly | 71 / 577 |
| Senate | 0 / 348 |
| European Parliament (French seats) | 9 / 81 |
| Presidencies of departmental councils | 0 / 101 |
| Presidencies of regional councils | 0 / 17 |
| Website | |
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La France Insoumise (pronounced [la fʁɑ̃s ɛ̃sumiz], lit. 'France Unbowed',[b] abbreviated as FI or LFI) is a left-wing political party in France. It was launched in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former co-president of the Left Party (PG). It aims to implement the eco-socialist and democratic socialist programme L'Avenir en commun (transl. A Shared Future). The party utilises the lower case Greek letter phi as its logotype.
The party nominated Mélenchon as its candidate for the 2017 French presidential election. He came fourth in the first round, receiving 19.6% of the vote and failing to qualify for the second round by around 2%. After the 2017 French legislative election, it formed a parliamentary group of 17 members of the National Assembly, with Mélenchon as the group's president. In the 2019 European Parliament election in France, it won six seats, below its expectations.
In 2022, Mélenchon again became the party's candidate for president, and later Christiane Taubira, winner of the 2022 French People's Primary, endorsed Mélenchon. In the first round of 2022 French presidential election voting in April, Mélenchon came third, garnering 7.7 million votes, narrowly behind second-place finisher Marine Le Pen.
- ^ Chemin, Chanaël (13 June 2024). "Législatives : La France Insoumise est-elle vraiment un parti d'extrême gauche ?". La Provence (in French). Retrieved 15 July 2024.
- ^ Desseauve, Rodolphe (13 June 2024). "LFI est-il vraiment un parti d'extrême gauche, comme le dit Emmanuel Macron ?". Yahoo News (in French). Retrieved 15 July 2024.
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