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| seats2_title = Senate | seats2 = | seats3_title = European Parliament | seats3 = | seats4_title = Regional Councils | seats4 = | colours = Yellow, Azure | website = | country = France }} The Radical Party of the Left ((フランス語:Parti Radical de Gauche), PRG) is a social-liberal political party in France. It has been a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France, the Socialist Party (PS), since 1972. The President of the PRG is Jean-Michel Baylet and its Secretary-General is Guillaume Lacroix. The party's sole MEP is Virginie Rozière, who sits with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group.〔http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-virginie-roziere.html〕 The party's youth wing is the Young Radicals of the Left. The party was formerly a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. ==History== The party was formed in 1972 by a split from the Republican, Radical, and Radical-Socialist Party, once the dominant party of the French Left. It was founded by Radicals who opposed Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's centrist direction and chose to join the Union of the Left and agree to the ''Common Programme'' signed by the Socialist Party (PS) and the French Communist Party (PCF). At that time the party was known as the Movement of the Radical-Socialist Left (''Mouvement de la Gauche Radicale-Socialiste'', MGRS), then as the Movement of Radicals of the Left (''Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche'', MRG) (after 1973). Led by Robert Fabre in the 1970s, the party was the third partner of the Union of the Left. Nevertheless, its electoral influence did not compare with those of its two allies, which competed for the leadership over the left. Robert Fabre sought to attract left-wing Gaullists to the party and gradually became close to President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who nominated him as Mediator of the Republic in 1978. He and his followers were excluded from the party by those who strongly supported the alliance with the PS. Michel Crépeau was nominated by the party for the 1981 presidential election, and obtained a disappointing 2.09% in the first round. He and his party endorsed PS candidate François Mitterrand in the runoff, who eventually won. The MRG won 14 seats in the subsequent legislative election and participated in PS-led governments between 1981 and 1986 and again between 1988 and 1993. In the 1984 European elections, the MRG formed a common list with Brice Lalonde's environmentalists and Olivier Stirn, a centre-right deputy. The list, styled ERE (''Entente radicale écologiste'') won 3.32% but no seats. The party resumed its customary alliance with the PS in the 1986 legislative election and supported President François Mitterrand's 1988 reelection bid by the first round. At the beginning of the 1990s, under the leadership of the popular businessman Bernard Tapie, the party benefited from an ephemeral upswing in its popularity while the governing Socialist Party was in disarray. The list led by Tapie won 12.03% and 13 seats of the votes in the 1994 European Parliament election. However Tapie retired from politics due to his legal problems and the party, renamed the Radical-Socialist Party (''Parti Radical-Socialiste'', PRS), returned to its lowest ebb. After the Radical Party opened legal proceedings against the PRS, it was forced to change its name to Radical Party of the Left (''Parti Radical de Gauche'', PRG). Between 1997 to 2002 it was a junior partner in Lionel Jospin's Plural Left coalition. In the 2002 presidential election, the PRG nominated its own candidate, former MEP and French Guiana deputy Christiane Taubira, for the first time since 1981. However, some members of the party including Émile Zuccarelli and PRG senator Nicolas Alfonsi supported Jean-Pierre Chevènement's candidacy. Taubira won 2.32% of the vote. Taubira gave her name to the 2001 law which declared the Atlantic slave trade a crime against humanity.〔(La Loi Taubira ), Human Rights League (France)〕 In the 2007 presidential election, while the party supported the Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal, Bernard Tapie, who had been a leading figure in the PRG, supported Nicolas Sarkozy. In the 2007 legislative election the party won eight seats, including a seat in French Guiana (Taubira) and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. The party split Nicolas Sarkozy's constitutional reforms in 2008. Six deputies (Gérard Charasse, Paul Giacobbi, Annick Girardin, Joël Giraud, Dominique Orliac, Sylvia Pinel) and three senators (Jean-Michel Baylet, André Boyer, François Vendasi) opted to vote in favour, hence allowing for its passage. The PRG's president, Jean-Michel Baylet, ran in the 2011 Socialist presidential primaries - the only non-PS candidate in the field - but he placed last with only 0.64% of the vote in the primary. The PRG supported François Hollande, the eventual winner of the primaries and the 2012 presidential election. In the 2012 legislative election, the PRG won 12 seats. With four additional members, it formed its own parliamentary group in the National Assembly, the Radical, Republican, Democratic and Progressist group (''Radical, républicain, démocrate et progressiste'', RRDP). Although the PRG remains a close and loyal ally of the PS, it has also cooperated with the small Ecology Generation (GE) party since December 2011.〔(Baptême du Pôle Radical et Ecologique ), ''Génération écologie'', 21 December 2011〕〔(Création du "pôle radical et écologique" ), Parti radical de gauche, 21 December 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Radical Party of the Left」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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