The New Democrats
The New Democrats was a centre-left social liberal French political party that held pro-European views founded 16 December 2020 by parliamentarians elected in 2017 under the label of La République en Marche!. It was co-chaired by MPs Aurélien Taché and Émilie Cariou.
They had one MP sit in the National Assembly as NUPES in the Ecologist Pole.
Members
- Aurélien Taché
- Émilie Cariou
- Guillaume Chiche
- Delphine Bagarry
- Sandrine Josso
- Fiona Lazaar
Foundation
Ecology Democracy Solidarity parliamentary group
The idea of a dissident group of deputies from La République En Marche! was floated several times in the first few years of the 15th legislature, but a group didn't materialise.At the beginning of April 2020, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the launch by 58 deputies, a senator and an MEP of a collaborative platform to develop a post-crisis plan, called The day after
was reported as the prelude to a split in the presidential majority in the Assembly from a new parliamentary group from its left wing and environmentalist, coordinated by the deputies Aurélien Taché, Paula Forteza and Matthieu Orphelin.
On 8 May 2020 Les Échos revealed a split project called Ecology Democracy Solidarity. Several deputies were dissuaded from joining the group by pressure from LREM. The Ecology Democracy Solidarity group was officially tabled on 19 May 2020 by seventeen parliamentarians. Among them, seven came directly from the majority group, nine had previously left or were excluded, and only one, Delphine Batho, was not a member.