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France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. Since the 1980s, France's government has alternated between two rather stable coalition

Coalition

A coalition is a pact or treaty among individuals or groups, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest, joining forces together for a common cause. This alliance may be temporary or a matter of convenience. A coalition thus differs from a more formal covenant...

on the left, one led by the Socialist Party
Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

and with minor partners such as the French Communist Party
French Communist Party
The French Communist Party is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism.Although its electoral support has declined in recent decades, the PCF retains a large membership, behind only that of the Union for a Popular Movement , and considerable influence in French...

, The Greens
The Greens (France)
The Greens were a Green political party to the centre-left of the political spectrum in France. They had officially been in existence since 1984, but their spiritual roots could be traced as far back as René Dumont’s candidacy for the presidency in 1974...

and the Left Radical Party
Left Radical Party
The Radical Party of the Left is a minor social-liberal, and in opposition to its common understanding of its name, a moderate centre-left political party in France advocating radicalism, secularism to its french extend known as laïcité, progressivism, pro-Europeanism, individual freedom and...

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on the right, one led by the Union for a Popular Movement
Union for a Popular Movement
The Union for a Popular Movement is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party...

and its predecessors Rally for the Republic
Rally for the Republic
The Rally for the Republic , was a French right-wing political party. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic , it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 and presented itself as the heir of Gaullism...

and the Union for French Democracy
Union for French Democracy
The Union for French Democracy was a French centrist political party. It was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over the right. This name was chosen due to the title of Giscard d'Estaing's...

, with support from the centrist Nouveau Centre
New Centre
New Centre , also known as the European Social Liberal Party is a centre-right political party in France, formed by the members of the Union for French Democracy – including a majority of former parliamentarians – who did not agree with François Bayrou's...

It is difficult for parties outside those coalitions to make significant inroads, though the far-right National Front has had sizable successes.

Nationwide parties

In the "remarks" column: "minor" indicates a party that makes less than 3% in national elections; "significant minor" indicates that the party gains more than 3% in national elections or wins a substantive number of seats (20+) in the National Assembly, but does not have a reasonable chance of leading a national government; "major" indicates a party that does have a reasonable chance of leading a national government; "one-person" indicates a party that has only one leading and commanding personality.

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Name in English	Name	Acronym	Leader or Chairman	Remarks	Political Position
Far left Far left Far left, also known as the revolutionary left, radical left and extreme left are terms which refer to the highest degree of leftist positions among left-wing politics...
New Anticapitalist Party New Anticapitalist Party The New Anticapitalist Party is a French political party founded in February 2009. Its name was originally intended to be temporary; a vote on the name being held at the founding congress on 6–8 February 2009, where NPA won over "Revolutionary Anticapitalist Party" with 53% of the vote.The party ...	Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste	NPA	Olivier Besancenot Olivier Besancenot Olivier Besancenot is a French far left political figure and trade unionist, and the founding main spokesperson of the New Anticapitalist Party from 2009 to 2011....	minor	anticapitalism, trotskyist
Workers' Struggle Workers' Struggle Lutte Ouvrière is the usual name under which the Union Communiste , a French Trotskyist political party, is known, after the name of its weekly paper. Arlette Laguiller has been its spokeswoman since 1973 and has run in each presidential election, but Robert Barcia was its founder and central...	Lutte Ouvrière	LO	Nathalie Arthaud Nathalie Arthaud Nathalie Arthaud is a French Workers' Struggle politician and candidate to the French presidential election, 2012. She is a native of Peyrins, Drôme, France.- Political background and candidacy :... , spokeswoman	minor	trotskyist
Unitarian Left Unitarian Left Unitarian Left is a political party in France which used to be one part of a faction within the Revolutionary Communist League...	Gauche Unitaire	GU	Christian Picquet Christian Picquet Christian Lamothe , better known with his pseudonym Christian Picquet, is a French activist and politician. He is the leader of the new Unitarian Left party....	minor, member of the Left Front Left Front (France) The Left Front is a French electoral coalition for the 2009 European elections composed primarily of the French Communist Party, the Left Party and the Unitarian Left...	anti-capitalism, democratic socialism
Left Party Left Party (France) The Left Party is a French democratic socialist political party. It seeks to emulate the German political party Die Linke led by Gesine Lötzsch and Klaus Ernst.- History :...	Parti de gauche	PG	Jean-Luc Mélenchon Jean-Luc Mélenchon Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a French politician who served in the government of France as Minister of Vocational Education from 2000 to 2002. He was also a member of the Senate of France, representing the Essonne department...	minor, member of the Left Front Left Front (France) The Left Front is a French electoral coalition for the 2009 European elections composed primarily of the French Communist Party, the Left Party and the Unitarian Left...	democratic socialism, republicanism, anticapitalism
French Communist Party French Communist Party The French Communist Party is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism.Although its electoral support has declined in recent decades, the PCF retains a large membership, behind only that of the Union for a Popular Movement , and considerable influence in French...	Parti Communiste Français	PCF	Pierre Laurent	significant minor, in decline since the 1980s, it now polls around 4%, member of the Left Front Left Front (France) The Left Front is a French electoral coalition for the 2009 European elections composed primarily of the French Communist Party, the Left Party and the Unitarian Left...	eurocommunism and communism, democratic socialism
Left-wing
Radical Party of the Left	Parti radical de gauche	PRG	Jean-Michel Baylet Jean-Michel Baylet Jean-Michel Baylet is a French politician, Senator, and leader of the moderate center-left Radical Party of the Left....	minor; previously Parti Radical Socialiste, Radical Socialist Party or PRS, Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche, Left Radical Movement or MRG, Radical	left radicalism, social liberalism
Socialist Party Socialist Party (France) The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...	Parti Socialiste	PS	François Hollande François Hollande François Gérard Georges Hollande is a French politician. From 1997 to 2008, he was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party. He has also served as a Deputy of the National Assembly of France, representing the first constituency of Corrèze, since 1997. He previously represented that seat...	major	social democracy, socialism
Citizen and Republican Movement Citizen and Republican Movement The Citizen and Republican Movement is a political party in France. The party replaced, in 2002, the Citizens' Movement founded by Jean-Pierre Chevènement, who left the Socialist Party in 1993 due to his opposition to the Persian Gulf War and to the Maastricht Treaty...	Mouvement républicain et citoyen	MRC	Jean-Pierre Chevènement Jean-Pierre Chevènement Jean-Pierre Chevènement is a French politician. He was Minister of Defense from 1988 to 1991 and Minister of the Interior from 1997 to 2000. He was a presidential candidate in 2002 and since 2008 has been a member of the Senate....	minor	left-wing nationalism, socialism, republicanism
Greens Green politics Green politics is a political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy...
The Greens The Greens (France) The Greens were a Green political party to the centre-left of the political spectrum in France. They had officially been in existence since 1984, but their spiritual roots could be traced as far back as René Dumont’s candidacy for the presidency in 1974...	Les Verts	VEC	Cécile Duflot Cécile Duflot Cécile Duflot is a French politician. She is Party Secretary of Europe Écologie–The Greens, a position she has held since November 2006 and is, with Jean-Luc Bennahmias, the only Green leader to have served two consecutive terms .-Biography:The eldest daughter of a...	significant minor, the largest French green-ecologist party of the left	green politics, blue politics, social democracy
Centrists
Democratic Movement Democratic Movement (France) The Democratic Movement , MoDem) is a centrist, social liberal and pro-European French political party that was founded by centrist politician François Bayrou to succeed his Union for French Democracy and to contest the 2007 legislative election, after his strong showing in the 2007 presidential...	Mouvement Démocrate	MoDem	François Bayrou François Bayrou François Bayrou is a French centrist politician, president of Union for French Democracy since 1998 and was a candidate in the 2002 and 2007 French presidential elections. In the first round, he received 18.6% of the vote, finishing in 3rd place and therefore was eliminated from the race....	significant minor, former Union for French Democracy Union for French Democracy The Union for French Democracy was a French centrist political party. It was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over the right. This name was chosen due to the title of Giscard d'Estaing's... (UDF) created by Bayrou after his relative success in the 2007 presidential ballot to contest the legislative election French legislative election, 2007 The French legislative elections took place on 10 June and 17 June 2007 to elect the 13th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, a few weeks after the French presidential election run-off on 6 May. 7,639 candidates stood for 577 seats, including France's overseas possessions... of June 2007	centrism, social liberalism, liberalism
New Centre	Nouveau Centre	PSLE or NC	Hervé Morin Hervé Morin Hervé Morin is a French politician, leader of the New Center party and a former French Minister of Defence.-Member of National Assembly:...	significant minor; formed by 80% of former UDF assembly members in May 2007 following the creation of the independent Democratic Movement. These assembly members wished to participate to the majority (led by Union for a Popular Movement Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party... (UMP))	liberalism, Christian democracy
Radical Party	Parti Radical	RAD	Jean-Louis Borloo Jean-Louis Borloo Jean-Louis Borloo is a French politician, and was the French Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Town and Country Planning between 2007 and 2010.-Professional résumé:Education...	minor, associated with UMP, with some members in government Full historical name: Parti Radical Républicain et Radical Socialiste" - Radical-Republican and Radical-Socialist Party	social liberalism, liberalism
Right-wing
Union for a Popular Movement Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party...	Union pour un Mouvement Populaire	UMP	Jean-François Copé Jean-François Copé Jean-François Copé , is a French politician. He is currently Mayor of Meaux, Deputy for the 6th constituency of Seine-et-Marne, and acts as President of the Union for a Popular Movement Group in the French National Assembly...	major; As of 2007, the president (Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier.... ), the prime minister (François Fillon François Fillon François Charles Armand Fillon is the Prime Minister of France. He was appointed to that office by President Nicolas Sarkozy on 17 May 2007. He served initially until 13 November 2010 when he resigned from being prime minister before a planned cabinet reshuffle.On 14 November 2010, Sarkozy... ) and the speakers of both houses of parliament are from UMP.	conservatism, liberal-conservatism, also libertarianism and nationalism
National Center of Independents and Peasants	Centre National des Indépendants et Paysans	CNI, CNIP	Annick du Roscoät	minor	Conservatism
Hunt, Fish, Nature, Traditions	Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions	CPNT	Frédéric Nihous Frédéric Nihous Frédéric Nihous is a French politician from the Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions party. He was a candidate for the 2007 French presidential election, but was eliminated in the first round of balloting...	minor, mostly in European and local elections	traditional rural values; refusal of environmental legislation and regulations restricting the right to hunt and fish, conservative, Eurosceptic
Movement for France Movement for France The Movement for France , abbreviated to MPF, is a French conservative and eurosceptic political party, founded on 20 November 1994, with a marked regional stronghold in the Vendée. It is led by Philippe de Villiers, once communications minister under Jacques Chirac.The party is considered...	Mouvement pour la France	MPF	Philippe de Villiers Philippe de Villiers Viscount Philippe Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon, known as Philippe de Villiers, born on 25 March 1949, is a French politician. He was the Mouvement pour la France nominee for the French presidential election of 2007. He received 2.23% of the vote, putting him in sixth place. As only the top...	minor	strong law enforcement, conservative, anti-immigration, Eurosceptic
Far-right
National Front	Front National	FN	Marine Le Pen Marine Le Pen Marine Le Pen is a French politician, a lawyer by profession and the president of the Front National since 16 January 2011...	significant minor, suffering a decline in recent years; personalist	strong law enforcement, anti-immigration, Eurosceptic
Former Parties of Note
Rally for the Republic Rally for the Republic The Rally for the Republic , was a French right-wing political party. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic , it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 and presented itself as the heir of Gaullism...	Rassemblement pour la République	RPR	Michelle Alliot-Marie	major; merged into UMP	conservatism
Liberal Democracy Liberal Democracy (France) Liberal Democracy was a French political party that advocated conservative liberalism and liberal conservatism, headed by Alain Madelin. The party replaced in 1997 the Republican Party, which was the classical liberal component of the Union for French Democracy .It became independent in 1998,...	Démocratie Libérale	DL	Alain Madelin Alain Madelin Alain Madelin is a French politician and a former minister of that country.Madelin, a strong supporter of laissez-faire economics, was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election as the leader of the Démocratie Libérale party, where he scored 3.91% on the first round...	minor; originally Parti Républicain - Republican Party or PR; merged into UMP	liberal conservatism, conservative liberalism
French Section of the Workers' International	Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière	SFIO	Guy Mollet Guy Mollet Guy Mollet was a French Socialist politician. He led the French Section of the Workers' International party from 1946 to 1969 and was Prime Minister in 1956–1957.-Early life and World War II:...	major; disbanded after creation of the Parti Socialiste. Major party of the third and fourth republics	socialism

Royalists

Royal Alliance (Alliance Royale), led by Yves-Marie Adeline
Yves-Marie Adeline
Yves-Marie Adeline Soret de Boisbrunet better known as Yves-Marie Adeline, is a French Catholic writer...
Nouvelle Action Royaliste
Nouvelle Action Royaliste
The Nouvelle Action Royaliste , is a monarchist political movement marked by a will to found a constitutional monarchy in France.-History:...

, led by Bertrand Renouvin
Bertrand Renouvin
Bertrand Renouvin, born in Paris, is the founder and president of French political movement Nouvelle Action Royaliste, a monarchist group which aims at restoring constitutional monarchy in France. One may say his orientation is now close to the original Gaullism which originated from the...

, called sometimes 'royalists of the left' (Renouvin supported Mitterrand
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...

in the 1981 and 1988 elections)
Democratic rally
Democratic Rally
The Democratic Rally , is a centre-right political party in Cyprus, led by Nicos Anastasiades.The party was founded on 4 July 1976 by veteran politician Glafkos Klerides. Clerides served as Cyprus president from 1993 until 2003....

(Rassemblement démocrate), moderate-centrist royalists
Action Française
Action Française
The Action Française , founded in 1898, is a French Monarchist counter-revolutionary movement and periodical founded by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois and whose principal ideologist was Charles Maurras...

, which is more a movement than a party. It is one of the most ancient political movement in France, and it was taken for the most subversive political organisation of the first half of the 20th century. Many far right politicians, such as Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen is a French far right-wing and nationalist politician who is founder and former president of the Front National party. Le Pen has run for the French presidency five times, most notably in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than...

or Philippe de Villiers
Philippe de Villiers
Viscount Philippe Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon, known as Philippe de Villiers, born on 25 March 1949, is a French politician. He was the Mouvement pour la France nominee for the French presidential election of 2007. He received 2.23% of the vote, putting him in sixth place. As only the top...

are inspired by the ideas of the Action Française's founder, Charles Maurras
Charles Maurras
Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras was a French author, poet, and critic. He was a leader and principal thinker of Action Française, a political movement that was monarchist, anti-parliamentarist, and counter-revolutionary. Maurras' ideas greatly influenced National Catholicism and "nationalisme...

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Left

Workers Communist Party of France
Workers Communist Party of France
The Workers' Communist Party of France , is a minor French Marxist-Leninist political party.PCOF was established in 1979. It supported the political line of the Party of Labour of Albania....

(PCOF), Marxist-Leninist
Independent Workers' Party
Independent Workers' Party
The Independent Workers' Party is a French far-left political party founded in June 2008 after the dissolution of its predecessor, the Workers' Party...

(Parti ouvrier indépendant or POI), (trotskyist)
Pole of Communist Rebirth in France
Pole of Communist Rebirth in France
The Pole of Communist Rebirth in France is a French political party founded in January 2004. It was a former internal tendency of the French Communist Party and left the party, refusing the "mutation" engaged at the beginning of the 1990s...

(Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France), led by Léon Landini

Greens

Ecology Generation (Génération Écologie, or GE), led by Brice Lalonde
Brice Lalonde
Brice Lalonde is a former green party leader in France, who ran for President of France in the Presidential elections, 1981. In 1988 he was named Minister of the Environment, and in 1990 founded the green party Ecology Generation...
Independent Ecological Movement
Independent Ecological Movement
The Independent Ecological Movement is a political party in France founded by Antoine Waechter, former presidential candidate of The Greens in 1994. The MEI hoped to replaced the Greens as the major green party, but due to the Green's electoral deals with larger parties, it failed to do so...

(Mouvement Écologiste Indépendant or MEI), led by Antoine Waechter
Antoine Waechter
Antoine Waechter is a French politician, leader of the Independent Ecological Movement, born on February 11, 1949 in Mulhouse -Early Activism:...
Citizenship, Action, Participation for the 21st Century (Citoyenneté Action Participation pour le XXIe siècle, CAP21), led by Corinne Lepage
Corinne Lepage
Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage, also known as Corinne Lepage is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the North-West constituency....

Center

Union of Radical Republicans
Union of Radical Republicans
The Union of Radical Republicans is a French political party with its origins in the Radical faction of the Republican Pole, an organization rallying together supporters of Jean-Pierre Chevènement's candidacy for the 2002 presidential election...

, which participated to the creation of François Bayrou
François Bayrou
François Bayrou is a French centrist politician, president of Union for French Democracy since 1998 and was a candidate in the 2002 and 2007 French presidential elections. In the first round, he received 18.6% of the vote, finishing in 3rd place and therefore was eliminated from the race....

's MoDem
Modem
A modem is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data...

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Liberal

Liberal Democratic Party
Liberal Democratic Party (France)
The Liberal Democratic Party is a French liberal party, created by a split in the Liberal Alternative....

(Parti libéral démocrate)

Major regionalist parties

(with past or present representation in at least a regional council)

Abertzaleen Batasuna
Abertzaleen Batasuna
Abertzaleen Batasuna is a Basque political party in France.It is the largest Basque nationalist party of the French Basque Country gathering around 10% of the votes in this territory. Its immediate goal is the establishment of a Pays Basque département out of Pyrénées-Atlantiques...

(Basque Country
Northern Basque Country
The French Basque Country or Northern Basque Country situated within the western part of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques constitutes the north-eastern part of the Basque Country....

, nationalist separatist): largest Basque nationalist party of the Northern Basque Country
Northern Basque Country
The French Basque Country or Northern Basque Country situated within the western part of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques constitutes the north-eastern part of the Basque Country....
Alsace d'abord
Alsace d'abord
Alsace d'abord is a political party seeking autonomy for Alsace in France.The party is considered to be a far-right party by most observers, due to its strong stance against immigration, its opposition to Turkish entry into the European Union and its affirmation of an Alsatian national identity...

(Alsace
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...

, far-right regionalist): had 3 seats in the Alsace Regional Council
Alsace Regional Council
The Alsace Regional Council is the Conseil régional of Alsace . It is chaired by Philippe Richert. It includes 47 members.-By party:-2004:-1998:-1992:-1986:-Past Presidents:* André Bord * Pierre Schiélé...

in 1998
Ligue savoisienne
Ligue Savoisienne
The Savoyan League is a French regionalist political party based in Savoy.The party supports the independence of Savoy from France. The two departments of Savoy, named Savoie and Haute-Savoie have belonged to France since the Treaty of Turin in 1860...

(Savoie
Savoie
Savoie is a French department located in the Rhône-Alpes region in the French Alps.Together with the Haute-Savoie, Savoie is one of the two departments of the historic region of Savoy that was annexed by France on June 14, 1860, following the signature of the Treaty of Turin on March 24, 1860...

, liberal separatist): had 1 seat in the Rhône-Alpes Regional Council
Rhône-Alpes Regional Council
The Rhône-Alpes Regional Council is the Conseil régional of Rhône-Alpes Regional Council . It is chaired by Jean-Jack Queyranne . It includes 157 members.-By party:-2004:-1998:-1992:-1986:-Past Presidents:...

in 1998
Union Démocratique Bretonne
Union Démocratique Bretonne
The Breton Democratic Union is the main autonomist and regionalist party in Brittany and Loire-Atlantique. It advocates devolution for Brittany as well as the promotion of the Breton language and its associated culture....

(Brittany
Brittany
Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

, left-wing regionalist): member of the present left-wing governing coalition in the Bretagne Regional Council
Bretagne Regional Council
The Regional Council of Brittany is the regional legislature of the region of Brittany in France. It is composed of 83 councillors, elected in 2004, in office for six years until 2010.-Seats:By Departments...

with PS and the Greens. It has 4 seats, including one caucusing member.
Party of the Corsican Nation (Corsica
Corsica
Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

, nationalist autonomist): 11 seats in the Corsican Assembly
Corsican Assembly
The Corsican Assembly is the unicameral legislative body of the territorial collectivity of Corsica. It has its seat at the Grand Hôtel d'Ajaccio et Continental, in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio.-History:...

and 1 in the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

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Corsica Libera
Corsica Libera
Corsica Libera is a political party seeking independence for Corsica. It was founded in Corte in February 2009 by members of three nationalist parties, Corsica Nazione, Rinnovu and the Corsican Nationalist Alliance...

(Corsica
Corsica
Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

, nationalist separatist): 4 seats in the Corsican Assembly
Corsican Assembly
The Corsican Assembly is the unicameral legislative body of the territorial collectivity of Corsica. It has its seat at the Grand Hôtel d'Ajaccio et Continental, in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio.-History:...

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Political parties in French overseas possessions

Note: Many of the parties in French oversea possessions have strong ties to counterparts in Metropolitan France.

Overseas departmental parties represented in the National Assembly

United Guadeloupe, Socialism and Realities
United Guadeloupe, Socialism and Realities
The United Guadeloupe, Socialism and Realities is a political party in the French département d'outre-mer of Guadeloupe. The party is close the Modern Left and has one Senator sitting in the European Democratic and Social Rally....

(Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe...

: Guadeloupe unie, socialisme et réalités)
Martinican Progressive Party
Martinican Progressive Party
The Martinican Progressive Party is a Martinican political party founded on March 22, 1958 by poet Aimé Césaire. The party favors the autonomy of Martinique within France, unlike the nationalist MIM. The party has one seat in the French National Assembly, Serge Letchimy, deputy from...

(Martinique
Martinique
Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados...

: Parti Progressiste Martiniquais)
Martinican Independence Movement
Martinican Independence Movement
The Martinican Independence Movement or MIM is a left-wing political party in the overseas department of Martinique, founded July 1, 1978 by Alfred Marie-Jeanne with the aim of securing "the decolonization and independence of Martinique"...

(Martinique
Martinique
Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados...

: Mouvement Indépendantiste Martiniquais)
Walwari
Walwari
Walwari is a political party in the French département d'outre-mer of French Guiana, created in 1993 by Christiane Taubira and Roland Delannon....

(French Guiana
French Guiana
French Guiana is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department located on the northern Atlantic coast of South America. It has borders with two nations, Brazil to the east and south, and Suriname to the west...

: Walwari)
Guianese Socialist Party
Guianese Socialist Party
The Guianese Socialist Party is a political party in the French overseas région of French Guiana, in South America. The PSG is currently the majority party in the regional council of French Guiana and has one seat in the French National Assembly....

(French Guiana
French Guiana
French Guiana is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department located on the northern Atlantic coast of South America. It has borders with two nations, Brazil to the east and south, and Suriname to the west...

: Parti socialiste guyanais, or PSG)
Communist Party of Réunion
Communist Party of Réunion
The Communist Party of Réunion is a Communist political party in the French overseas department of Réunion . The party has one seat in the French National Assembly.-History:...

(Réunion
Réunion
Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...

: Parti communiste réunionnais, or PCR)
Tahoera'a Huiraatira
Tahoera'a Huiraatira
Tāhōʻēraʻa Huiraʻatira is a political party in French Polynesia.At the last legislative elections on May 23, 2004, and by-elections on February 13, 2005, the party won 27 out of 57 seats....

(French Polynesia
French Polynesia
French Polynesia is an overseas country of the French Republic . It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory...

, local UMP)
Mahoré Departementalist Movement
Mahoré Departementalist Movement
The Mahoran Departmentalist Movement is a political party in the French overseas department of Mayotte. In the last elections for the General Council March 21 and 28 2004), the party won 23.3% of the popular vote and 6 out of 19 seats....

(Mayotte
Mayotte
Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France consisting of a main island, Grande-Terre , a smaller island, Petite-Terre , and several islets around these two. The archipelago is located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean, namely between northwestern Madagascar and...

, Mouvement départementaliste mahorais, or MDM)

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