La France insoumise
Also known as France insoumise, France Unbowed
French left-wing political party
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- LFI, FI
- Coordinator
- Manuel Bompard
- Founder
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon
- Founded
- 10 February 2016 ; 10 years ago ( 2016-02-10 )
- Split from
- Left Party
- Newspaper
- L'Insoumission Hebdo (until 2022)
- Membership 2017
- 540,000
- Ideology
- Democratic socialism Anti-neoliberalism Souverainism Eco-socialism Left-wing populism
- Political position
- Left-wing to far-left
- National affiliation
- New Popular Front (since 2024) NUPES (2022–2024)
- European affiliation
- European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet , Now the People !
- European parliament group
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La France Insoumise (LFI or FI; [la fʁɑ̃s ɛ̃sumiz], lit. 'France Unbowed') is a left-wing to far-left 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 program L'Avenir en commun (transl. A Shared Future).
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.
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