New Democrats Les Nouveaux Démocrates | |
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| Abbreviation | LND |
| Founded | 6 December 2020 (2020-12-6) |
| Dissolved | 16 October 2022 (2022-10-16)[1] |
| Split from | La République En Marche! |
| Merged into | The Ecologists |
| Membership | 600 |
| Ideology | Social liberalism Environmentalism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Website | |
| lesnouveaux-democrates.fr | |
TheNew Democrats (French:Les Nouveaux Démocrates,pronounced[lenuvodemɔkʁat];LND) was acentre-leftsocial liberal[2] French political party that heldpro-European[2] views founded 16 December 2020 by parliamentarians elected in 2017 under the label ofLa République en Marche!. It was co-chaired by MPsAurélien Taché andÉmilie Cariou.
They had oneMP sit in theNational Assembly asNUPES in theEcologist Pole.
The idea of a dissident group of deputies fromLa République En Marche! was floated several times in the first few years of the 15th legislature, but a group didn't materialise.[3][4]At the beginning of April 2020, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the launch by 58 deputies, a senator and an MEP of a collaborative platform to develop apost-crisis plan, calledThe day after (French:Le jour d'après)was reported asthe prelude to a split in the presidential majority in the Assembly from a new parliamentary group from its left wing and environmentalist,[5] coordinated by the deputies Aurélien Taché, Paula Forteza and Matthieu Orphelin.
On 8 May 2020Les Échos revealed a split project calledEcology Democracy Solidarity.[6] Several deputies were dissuaded from joining the group by pressure from LREM.[6] The Ecology Democracy Solidarity group was officially tabled on 19 May 2020 by seventeen parliamentarians. Among them, seven came directly from the majority group, nine had previously left or were excluded, and only one,Delphine Batho, was not a member.[7]
In June 2020, the foundation of a #NousDemain "us tomorrow" party was announced by seven members of the Ecology Democracy Solidarity group (Delphine Bagarry,Émilie Cariou,Guillaume Chiche,Paula Forteza,Albane Gaillot,Hubert Julien-Laferrière andAurélien Taché) and about twenty other personalities (includingSandrine Josso, a Member of Parliament who is not a member of the group), with an official launch scheduled for Autumn.[8] This meant the EDS group no longer had a sufficient number of deputies in the assembly, so it was no longer listed in the assembly and its remaining members listed asindependents (french,non-inscrits).[9][10]
LND was part of theEcologist Pole andNUPES for the2022 French legislative election.Delphine Bagarry, the party's onlyMember of Parliamentlost her seat toChristian Girard from theNational Rally.[11] On October 23, 2022, Taché announced that the party would be merging withEurope Ecology – The Greens.[12]