Virginie Rozière

In 2013, the Socialist Party (PS) and the PRG, led by Pinel, came to an agreement where members of the PRG could run under the PS banner in the upcoming 2014 parliamentary elections. In the elections in May 2014, Rozière won 15.73% of the vote in South-West France, and was elected to the European Parliament, the only PRG member to do so.^[2] In parliament, Rozière served on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Petitions, and is a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Union.^[3] In this capacity, she served as rapporteur on legislation to protect whistleblowers in the aftermath of scandals such as LuxLeaks or the Panama Papers.^[4]

In December 2017, the PRG merged with the Radical Party to form the Radical Movement. Rozière and Stéphane Saint-André [fr] spoke in opposition to the merger, and instead chose to leave the PRG and form a new party, Les Radicaux de gauche [fr] (LRDG, the "Left Radicals").^[5] Before the 2019 European Parliament election, LRDG at first found an agreement for a common candidacy with PS and Place Publique. However, shortly after the PRG cancelled the merger in March 2019, LRDG dropped from the candidate lists and Rozière did not stand for reelection, citing PRG influence on PS for the failure of the common candidacy.^[6]

In the Socialist Party's primaries, Rozière endorsed Sylvia Pinel as the party's candidate in the 2017 French presidential election.