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, leader2_title = General Secretary , leader2_name = Thierry Salaün , leader3_title = Spokesperson , leader3_name = Joannic Martin , foundation = 2000 , headquarters = Lorient,

Morbihan Morbihan ( , ; br, Mor-Bihan ) is a department in the administrative region of Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastli ...

, youth_wing = Movement of Young Bretons (''Ar Vretoned Yaouank'') , ideology = Breton nationalism

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, website
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: ''Parti Breton'',

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: ''Strollad Breizh'') is a social-democratic and social-liberal nationalist party which aspires to the creation of an independent republic of

Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known ...

, within the

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Program

The movement was created in 2002. Its objective is to give Brittany the necessary institutions for its economic, social, cultural, environmental and political development. Brittany is defined as both the modern administrative

Région France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (french: régions, singular ), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collect ...

and the

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Loire-Atlantique Loire-Atlantique (; br, Liger-Atlantel; before 1957: ''Loire-Inférieure'', br, Liger-Izelañ, link=no) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. It had a population o ...

, which includes

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

, the former capital of the

Duchy of Brittany The Duchy of Brittany ( br, Dugelezh Breizh, ; french: Duché de Bretagne) was a medieval feudal state that existed between approximately 939 and 1547. Its territory covered the northwestern peninsula of Europe, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to ...

. Its aspirations include regional autonomy comparable to other European regions as

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, or full independence, as with

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. The main idea is that Brittany has always been a

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, therefore has rights and liberties within the

. The Breton Party claims the creation of a Breton State, member of the European Union, officially recognized by international authorities. It argues that beyond the principle that a nation should have independent rights, Brittany also has everything to gain by such a process of emancipation, on economic, cultural or environmental fronts. The slogan of the Breton Party is "emancipated and reunited Brittany". Analyzing the causes for the "stagnation of the Breton political movements", the party wants "to take the Bretons as they are and not as one would like them to be". In terms of the left-right axis, the Breton Party is considered to be

centrist Centrism is a political outlook or position involving acceptance or support of a balance of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy while opposing political changes that would result in a significant shift of society strongly to the l ...

. The main objective is first of all to create Breton political ''institutions''. Claiming 400 members, most of whom have had no association with the earlier Breton movement, the Breton Party has members from the center-left, such as the professor and the contractor Jean-Paul Moisan from

, or the center-right, such as Gérard Olliéric, the current president of the party.

Youth Wing

''Ar Vretoned Yaouank'' is the youth section of the party created in 2007. Its purpose is to lead activities specific to youth connected to the party, but in an informal way. In 2006 the Young Bretons participated in the International Youth Days organized by the

Basque National Party The Basque Nationalist Party (, EAJ ; es, Partido Nacionalista Vasco, PNV; french: Parti Nationaliste Basque, PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially Basque National Party in English,) was rejected by party members in November 2011. Nonetheless, the party did ...

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and were received by the Lehendakari, leader of the Basque government.

Elections

The Breton Party has contested several elections: two by-elections in 2004, and again in 2005. Its candidates obtained for their first outing between 1.5% and 4% of the vote. In the general election of 2007, 4 candidates were put forward: *Yves Le Mestric for the constituency of Vitré (

Ille-et-Vilaine Ille-et-Vilaine (; br, Il-ha-Gwilen) is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named after the two rivers of the Ille and the Vilaine. It had a population of 1,079,498 in 2019.

): 686 votes or 0.89% *Gérard Guillemot for the constituency of

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

(

): 249 votes or 0.57% *Emile Granville for the constituency of Redon (

): 847 votes or 1.27% *Hervé Le Guen for the constituency of Lorient (

): 686 votes or 1.44% In a local by-election in Redon on September 23, 2007, Émile Granville obtained 3.58%. In a 2009 by-election in the same canton, he won 4.08%. In 2008, Yann Jestin, president of Askol, obtained 25.18% of the votes during the cantonal elections in Lesneven. During the municipal elections in March 2008, the Breton Party ran about twenty candidates and obtained about ten municipal elected representatives among whom were a mayor and three deputies. In the 2009 European elections, the party ran one list in the West constituency, which won 2.45% across the five Breton departments. Its highest result was 3.41% in the

Finistère Finistère (, ; br, Penn-ar-Bed ) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.

. It won up to 16% in a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department. In the

2010 French regional elections Regional elections were held in France on 14 and 21 March 2010. At stake were the presidencies of each of France's 26 ''régions'', which, though they do not have legislative autonomy, manage sizable budgets. The elections resulted in significan ...

the Breton Party fielded candidates in Brittany and the Pays de Loire regions, viz; *

Christian Troadec The Brittany Movement and Progress (''Breizh War Raok'' in Breton) (MBP) is a Breton people, Breton political movement created in 2010. History Created by Christian Troadec in the 2010 French regional elections, 2010 regional elections under th ...

for the presidency of Brittany: 47,108 votes or 4.29% *Jacky Flippot for the presidency of Pays de Loire: 11,669 votes or 0.99% (most from the city of

) At the 2017 legislative elections, the Breton Party presented candidates in all the 31 circonscriptions of Brittany with its ally Alliance Ecologiste Indépendante. The vote took place juste after Emmanuel Macron's election as president of France and was then difficult for other parties than the new head of state's

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, but the Breton Party got more than 1% in 10 of them.

2021 Regional Elections

The Breton Party obtained 1.55% of the votes and came 9th out of 13 in an election strongly marked by abstention. A result which does not make it possible to maintain the second place but which is distinguished by a number of votes twice as high compared to 2015 with 13,193 votes in the Brittany region (compared to 6,521 votes in 2015).

External links

Official site
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