Democrats and Progressives Démocrates et progressistes | |
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| Abbreviation | DP |
| President | Xavier Iacovelli |
| First Vice President | Patricia Mirallès |
| Secretary General | Guillaume Poitoux |
| President of the National Council | Agnès Pannier-Runacher |
| Spokesperson | Émilie Chalas |
| Founders | Jean-Yves Le Drian Olivier Dussopt Gilles Savary |
| Founded | 1 February 2020 (2020-02-01) |
| Split from | LREM Socialist Party |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre[3] tocentre-left[4][5] |
| National affiliation | Ensemble |
| European Parliament group | Renew Europe |
| Colours | Blue Pink |
| National Assembly | 8 / 577 |
| Senate | 1 / 348 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 81 |
| Website | |
| territoiresdeprogres.fr | |
Democrats and Progressives (French:Démocrates et progressistes,DP),[6] formerly known asTerritories of Progress – Social Reformist Movement (French:Territoires de progrès – Mouvement social-réformiste,TDP), is a French political party of thecentre[3] tocentre-left.[4][5] It was founded in February 2020 by government ministersJean-Yves Le Drian andOlivier Dussopt formerly of theSocialist Party who had previously left to join the presidential majority (La République En Marche!) of PresidentEmmanuel Macron. Since October 2021, the party's president isOlivier Dussopt. The party constitutes thesocial democratic or centre-left part of the presidential majority.[7]
As of 2022, it had 46members of Parliament.Élisabeth Borne was a regular member (not an elected member of Parliament) who, on 16 May 2022, was appointed by President Macron as prime minister to replaceJean Castex.
The party was officially launched on 1 February 2020, during a meeting inPantin,Seine-Saint-Denis, then presented at a press conference on 2 July 2020.[8] SenatorXavier Iacovelli became its Secretary General.[9] The party defined itself as "social-democratic, reformist, and Europeanist."[10]
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