Guadeloupe Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the ...

is not a separate territory but an overseas region of

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. France has a

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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

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The parties

Most of the French political parties are active in Guadeloupe. In addition there are a number of regional parties: * Guadeloupe Communist Party (''Parti Communiste Guadeloupéen'', PCG) * Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe * Popular Movement for the Liberation of Guadeloupe (''Union Populaire pour la Libération de la Guadeloupe'', UPLG) * Guadeloupean Objective (''Objectif Guadeloupéen'') *

Pluralist Left The Plural Left (french: Gauche Plurielle) is a political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. The party has one seat in the French National Assembly in the group of the Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of man ...

(''Gauche Pluriel'') * United Guadaloupe, Socialism and Realities

The parties

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