Union of the Left (France)

The term originated to describe the coalition formed between the Socialist Party (PS), Movement of the Radical Left(MGRS), and the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1972 to 1977, based on the Programme commun platform, and the subsequent governments involving these parties under President François Mitterrand.

The term resurfaces every few years in French political spheres when left-wing parties and movements strategise and unify as a bloc against the center or right-wing counterparts.

The Union of the Left (New Popular Front) currently consists of the following parties:

• La France Insoumise
• Socialist Party of France
• Ecologist Pole
• Republican and Socialist Left
• French Communist Party
• Génération.s

• New Anticapitalist Party
• Miscellaneous left