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Ecology Generation Génération écologie | |
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| Leader | Delphine Batho |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Headquarters | 25, avenue Jean-Jaurès F-75019 Paris |
| Ideology | Green politics Degrowth Integral ecology Eco-feminism Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Left-wing (since 2018)[citation needed] Formerly Centre-left tocentre-right |
| National affiliation | New Popular Front(since 2024) Ecologist Pole(since 2020) New Ecologic and Social People's Union(2022-2023) |
| Colours | Green |
| National Assembly | 1 / 577 |
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| generationecologie | |
Ecology Generation (French:Génération écologie) is one of the four green parties in France, along withThe Ecologists (Les Écologistes), theIndependent Ecological Movement (Mouvement Ecologiste Indépendant), andCap Écologie. Founded in 1990 byBrice Lalonde, Environment Minister, upon the suggestion of PresidentFrançois Mitterrand, it describes itself as a club with cross-party alliances of green-minded politicians and public servants. It moved away from the "presidential majority" in 1992, whenBrice Lalonde left the cabinet.
The party, in alliance withThe Greens obtained about 14% of the vote in the1992 French regional elections; but the1993 legislative election was disappointing for the Green-GE alliance, as it failed to win any seats and won only 7% (other ecologist parties brought the score up to 11%), when polls had given them up to 16%.
Noël Mamère was the movement's vice-president from 1992 to 1994, when he was excluded from the party and founded the Ecology-Solidarity Convergence, which later joinedThe Greens. Unlike manygreen parties, which are traditionally associated with theleft-wing, Génération écologie presents itself as acentrist ecologist party. This is despite its early allegiance with theSocialist Party in the 1990s, and how for a time in the early 2000s it was nicknamed 'The Blues,' after the traditional colour of conservatism, and was associated with thecentre-rightUMP underJacques Chirac from 2002 to 2004.
Génération écologie has cooperated since the 2004 elections with several other movements that share its priorities. It has worked alongside various organisations, most prominently theFederalist Party, the Centre of Handicapped Democrats, and the Vanquish Unemployment Association.
France Gamerre replacedBrice Lalonde as leader and she aimed to run in the2007 French presidential election. Like her predecessor, she failed to win the 500 endorsements. In the2009 European Parliament election, the party ran as part of theIndependent Ecological Movement which won 3.63% of the vote.
On 2 May 2018, former minister of EcologyDelphine Batho left the Socialist Party and joined Ecology Generation. She was elected as new party president on 10 September 2018.[1]
