Ecologist Party
Ecologist Party Parti écologiste | |
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| President | François de Rugy |
| President in the National Assembly | Gilles Le Gendre |
| Founder | François de Rugy Jean-Vincent Placé |
| Founded | 2 September 2015 |
| Split from | Europe Ecology – The Greens |
| Ideology | Green politics Green liberalism Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left[1] |
| National affiliation | Union of Democrats and Ecologists (until Jul 2016) |
| European affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | None |
| Colours | Blue, green |
| National Assembly | 3 / 577
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| Senate | 1 / 348
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| Regional Councils | 1 / 1,757
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| Website | |
| http://www.le-parti-ecologiste.fr | |
The Ecologist Party (French: Parti écologiste, PÉ), founded as Écologistes !, is a centre-left French political party created in September 2015 by François de Rugy, President of the Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) group in the National Assembly and Jean-Vincent Placé, the President of the EELV group in the Senate.
This party was initially created as a reaction to the decision taken by EELV of making alliances with the Left Front. The aim of UDE founders was to create a reformist centre-left party, accepting globalization and market economy, and supporting president François Hollande. The founders of UDE declared they wanted to become a strong ally of the Socialist Party, and attract people from EELV or from the Democratic Movement.[2][3]
The Ecologist Party currently supports the second Philippe government (of which François de Rugy is Minister of Ecology) and its MPs seat in the parliamentary groups of La Republique en Marche!.