Ecologist Party

Ecologist Party Parti écologiste
Chairman	François de Rugy
National Assembly President	Richard Ferrand
Founder	François de Rugy Jean-Vincent Placé
Founded	2 September 2015
Split from	Europe Ecology – The Greens
Ideology	Green politics Green liberalism Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-left[1]
National affiliation	Union of Democrats and Ecologists (until Jul 2016)
European affiliation	None
European Parliament group	None
Colours	Blue, green
National Assembly	3 / 577
Senate	1 / 348
Regional Councils	1 / 1,757
Website
http://www.le-parti-ecologiste.fr
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The Ecologist Party (founded as écologistes !) is a centre-left French political party created in September 2015 by François de Rugy, the president of the Ecologist group in the National Assembly and Jean-Vincent Placé, the president of the Ecologist group in the Senate.

This party was initially created as a reaction to the decision taken by EELV of making alliances with the Left Front. The aim of UDE founders was to create a reformist center-left party, accepting globalization and market economy, and supporting president François Hollande. The founders of UDE declared they wanted to become a strong ally of the Socialist Party, and attract people from EELV or from the MoDem.^[2][3]

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