Ecologist Party

The Ecologist Party (French: Parti écologiste, PÉ), founded as Écologistes !, is a centre-left French political party that holds pro-European views,[2] created in September 2015 by François de Rugy, President of the Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) group in the National Assembly and Jean-Vincent Placé, the President of the EELV group in the Senate.

Ecologist Party Parti écologiste
President	François de Rugy
President in the National Assembly	Gilles Le Gendre
Founders	François de Rugy Jean-Vincent Placé
Founded	2 September 2015
Split from	Europe Ecology – The Greens
Ideology	Green politics Green liberalism Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-left[1]
National affiliation	Ensemble Citoyens (since 2021) La République En Marche! (since 2017) Union of Democrats and Ecologists (2015-2016)
Colours	Blue, green
National Assembly	1 / 577
Senate	0 / 348
Website
le-parti-ecologiste.fr
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This party was initially created as a reaction to the decision taken by EELV of making alliances with the Left Front. The aim of UDE founders was to create a reformist centre-left party, accepting globalization and market economy, and supporting president François Hollande. The founders of UDE declared they wanted to become a strong ally of the Socialist Party, and attract people from EELV or from the Democratic Movement.[3][4]

Since 2017, the party is part of La Republique en Marche!.