The New Democrats (french: Les Nouveaux Démocrates; LND) is a

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French political party that holds

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views founded 16 December 2020 by parliamentarians elected in 2017 under the label of La République en Marche!. It is co-chaired by MPs Aurélien Taché and

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. They have 1 MPs sit in the

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NUPES The New Ecological and Social People's Union (french: Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale, link=no, NUPES) is a left-wing alliance of political parties in France. Formed on May Day 2022, the alliance includes La France Insoumise (LFI ...

in the

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Members

* Aurélien Taché *

* Guillaume Chiche *

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* Sandrine Josso * Fiona Lazaar

Foundation

Ecology Democracy Solidarity parliamentary group

The idea of a dissident group of deputies from La République En Marche! was floated several times in the first few years of the 15th legislature, but a group didn't materialise. At the beginning of April 2020, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the launch by 58 deputies, a senator and an MEP of a collaborative platform to develop a ''post-crisis plan'', called ''The day after'' (French: ''Le jour d'après'') was reported as ''the prelude to a split in the presidential majority in the Assembly from a new parliamentary group from its left wing and environmentalist'', coordinated by the deputies Aurélien Taché, Paula Forteza and Matthieu Orphelin. On May 8, 2020, Les Échos revealed a split project called ''

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''. Several deputies were dissuaded from joining the group by pressure from LREM. The Ecology Democracy Solidarity group was officially tabled on 19 May 2020 by seventeen parliamentarians. Among them, seven came directly from the majority group, nine had previously left or were excluded, and only one, Delphine Batho, was not a member.

Formation of New Democrats

In June 2020, the foundation of a #NousDemain "us tomorrow" party was announced by seven members of the Ecology Democracy Solidarity group (

, Guillaume Chiche,

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, Albane Gaillot,

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and Aurélien Taché) and about twenty other personalities (including Sandrine Josso, a Member of Parliament who is not a member of the group), with an official launch scheduled for Autumn. This meant the EDS group no longer had a sufficient number of deputies in the assembly, so it was no longer listed in the assembly and its remaining members listed as independents (french, ''non-inscrits'').

Ecological Pole

LND was part of the

and

for the

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, the party's only

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lost her seat to Christian Girard from the National Rally.

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