New Deal (french: Nouvelle Donne) is a
Keynesian liberal and
progressive political party in
France
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. It was founded on 18 November 2013 by Pierre Larrouturou. Its stated aims are to renew how democracy is used, and it has social, ecological and economic goals, which could be defined as
left-wing
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.
History
In the wake of the
2012 French presidential election
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, the "Collectif
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" was launched to promote 15 propositions to all the candidates, which had been signed into a
manifesto by over 100,000 people. After
François Hollande's victory,
Pierre Larrouturou and
Stéphane Hessel chose to put these ideas to vote within the
Parti Socialiste (PS) at the
Toulouse
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meeting, which was to elect the new leader of the party. However, their
motion
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obtained only 11.78% of the votes, ranking it third.
Following these events, Pierre Larrouturou announced the creation of the New Deal party, effectively leaving the Socialist Party, on 28 November 2013.
The party was named after the
New Deal,
the political program launched by
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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in the 1930s to get the
United States
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out of the
Great Depression. New Deal has highlighted that very low
economic growth in France has been the norm for a generation, and postulates that the crisis is the result of inequalities of
economic redistribution, in terms of
wealth
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and
working time
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Many countries regulate the work week by law, ...
. For instance, it proposes the revision of
fiscal policies and the
division of labour, though reducing working time. Those policies would be sustained by
Keynesian
Keynesian economics ( ; sometimes Keynesianism, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes) are the various macroeconomic theories and models of how aggregate demand (total spending in the economy) strongly influences economic output an ...
policies, based on ecological needs.
The party wants to unite
citizens who have not previously been involved in politics, supporters of the
Left Front, the
Europe Ecology – The Greens
Europe Ecology – The Greens (french: Europe Écologie Les Verts , EELV ) is a centre-left to left-wing green political party in France. The party is a member of the European Green Party. The party was formed on 13 November 2010 from the merge ...
, the
Socialist Party (PS), The
MoDem
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, people from
social Gaullism
Gaullism (french: link=no, Gaullisme) is a French political stance based on the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic. De Gaulle with ...
,
CEOs
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Geography
It is the island of ...
, as well as
contingent work
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ers, and
French celebrities.
Political position
''Nouvelle Donne'' is located in the
political spectrum
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of the
left wing,
in the context of French politics, but it is sometimes described as the
centre-left
Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The ...
.
This political party values political, conscientious, speech, and individual freedom, and supports
social justice
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and
environmentalism
Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks ...
.
The New Deal is a representative of
modern liberalism in the United States
Modern liberalism in the United States, often simply referred to in the United States as liberalism, is a form of social liberalism found in American politics. It combines ideas of civil liberty and equality with support for social justice an ...
. ''Nouvelle Donne'' is also a
social-liberal
Social liberalism (german: Sozialliberalismus, es, socioliberalismo, nl, Sociaalliberalisme), also known as new liberalism in the United Kingdom, modern liberalism, or simply liberalism in the contemporary United States, left-liberalism ...
party.
While in French politics social liberalism is generally classified as
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 Left-w ...
, ''Nouvelle Donne'' is classified as more left-leaning than the
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...
, a centre-left party with a tendency to
social democracy
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. The party can be seen as a party advocating
progressivism
Progressivism holds that it is possible to improve human societies through political action. As a political movement, progressivism seeks to advance the human condition through social reform based on purported advancements in science, tec ...
,
a left-wing form of
liberalism
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.
Election results
European Parliament
See also
*
Political Parties of France
*
MoDem
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*
Europe Ecology – The Greens
Europe Ecology – The Greens (french: Europe Écologie Les Verts , EELV ) is a centre-left to left-wing green political party in France. The party is a member of the European Green Party. The party was formed on 13 November 2010 from the merge ...
*
Social Gaullism
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*
Left Front (France)
The Left Front (french: Front de gauche, FG or FDG) was a French electoral alliance and a political movement created for the 2009 European elections by the French Communist Party and the Left Party when a left-wing minority faction decided to ...
*
New Deal liberalism
Modern liberalism in the United States, often simply referred to in the United States as liberalism, is a form of social liberalism found in American politics. It combines ideas of civil liberty and equality with support for social justice and ...
*
Reiwa Shinsengumi
is a left-wing populist and progressive political party in Japan founded by actor-turned-politician Tarō Yamamoto in April 2019. The party was formed by left-wing members of the Liberal Party who opposed its merger with the Democratic Party fo ...
, another liberal party classified as "left-wing".
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