Place Publique is a

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, founded in 2018 by

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, Claire Nouvian, Jo Spiegel, and

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. In January 2019, the movement claimed 25,000 members.

History

Creation

The party was officially founded on 10 August 2018. On October 29, 2018,

, Jo Spiegel, Diana Filippova, and Claire Nouvian announced the creation of Place Publique, a political party aiming to bring together the

pro-European Pro-Europeanism, sometimes called European Unionism, is a political position that favours European integration and membership of the European Union (EU).Krisztina Arató, Petr Kaniok (editors). ''Euroscepticism and European Integration''. Polit ...

French left The Left in France (french: gauche française) was represented at the beginning of the 20th century by two main political parties, namely the Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party and the French Section of the Workers' Internatio ...

from

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to the

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and Génération.s. Their position was presented as an alternative to

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, although Thomas Porcher declared that the movement was not against

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. On 6 November 2018, Raphaël Glucksmann and several party leaders published a manifesto announcing the birth of their movement.

2019 European Elections

On 16 March 2019, Place Publique and the Socialist Party announced that they would present a joint list at the

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, with Raphaël Glucksmann as the head of the list. Thomas Porcher left the party the same day, denouncing a "list of apparatchiks". Place Publique won 2 seats in the election.

Election results

European Parliament

References

External links

official site
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