Ecologist Party

The Ecologist Party (French: Parti écologiste, PÉ), founded as Écologistes !, is a centre-left French political party created in September 2015 by François de Rugy, President of the Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) group in the National Assembly and Jean-Vincent Placé, the President of the EELV group in the Senate.

Ecologist Party Parti écologiste
President	François de Rugy
President in the National Assembly	Gilles Le Gendre
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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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 centre-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 Democratic Movement.[2][3]

The Ecologist Party currently supports the second Philippe government (of which François de Rugy is Minister of Ecology) and its MPs seat in the parliamentary groups of La Republique en Marche!.