New Deal (French political party)

New Deal
Nouvelle Donne
Co-president Pierre Larrouturrou
Co-president Isabelle Attard
Headquarters Paris
Political position Left-wing
Colors      Fushia
National Assembly
1 / 577
Senate
0 / 348
European Parliament
0 / 74
Website
www.nouvelledonne.fr

New Deal (French: Nouvelle Donne) is a political party in France. It was founded on 18 November 2013 by Pierre Larrouturrou. 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.

History

In the wake of the 2012 French presidential election, the "Collectif Roosevelt" was launched to promote 15 propositions to all the candidates, which had been signed into a manifesto by over 100,000 people.[1] After François Hollande's victory, Pierre Larrouturrou and Stéphane Hessel chose to put these ideas to vote within the Parti Socialiste (PS) at the Toulouse meeting, which was to elect the new leader of the party.[2] However, their motion obtained only 11.78% of the votes, ranking it third.

Following these events, Pierre Larrouturrou announced the creation of the New Deal party, effectively leaving the Socialist Party, on November 28, 2013.[3] The party was named after the New Deal,[4] the political program launched by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s to get the United States 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 and working time. 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 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, the Socialist Party (PS), The MoDem, people from social Gaullism, CEOs, as well as contingent workers, and French celebrities.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.roosevelt2012.fr/
  2. ↑ http://lelab.europe1.fr/la-motion-surprise-de-stephane-hessel-4609
  3. ↑ « “Nouvelle Donne”, un nouveau parti à gauche », Le Figaro, 28 novembre 2013.
  4. ↑ « Larrouturou, l'homme des 32 heures, crée son parti », Le Parisien, 27 novembre 2013.
  5. ↑ « L'économiste socialiste Pierre Larrouturou lance son parti », Le Monde, 28 novembre 2013.
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