La France Insoumise
France Unbowed La France Insoumise | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | LFI, FI |
| Coordinator | Manuel Bompard |
| Founder | Jean-Luc Mélenchon |
| Founded | 10 February 2016 |
| Split from | Left Party |
| Newspaper | L'Insoumission Hebdo (until 2022) |
| Membership (2017) | 540,000 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
| National affiliation |
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| European affiliation | European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet Now the People ! |
| European Parliament group | The Left in the European Parliament |
| Colours | Purple |
| National Assembly | 71 / 577 |
| Senate | 0 / 348 |
| European Parliament (French seats) | 9 / 81 |
| Presidencies of departmental councils | 0 / 101 |
| Presidencies of regional councils | 0 / 17 |
| Website | |
| lafranceinsoumise.fr | |
^ A: The party has been described as left-wing as well as far-left. Far-left is a label used by its critics, including French President Emmanuel Macron, to compare it with the far-right National Rally (RN), however, political scientists prefer the label "radical left". For the 2026 municipal elections, the Ministry of the Interior classified LFI as "far-left". A decision which the Conseil d'État upheld. | |
La France Insoumise (LFI or FI; [la fʁɑ̃s ɛ̃sumiz], lit. 'France Unbowed') is a radical left-wing (according to political scholars, far left according to the Conseil d'État and the Ministry of Interior) political party in France. It was launched in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former co-president of the Left Party (PG). It aims to implement the eco-socialist and democratic socialist program L'Avenir en commun (transl. A Shared Future).
The party nominated Mélenchon as its candidate for the 2017 French presidential election. He came fourth in the first round, receiving 19.6% of the vote and failing to qualify for the second round by around 2%. After the 2017 French legislative election, it formed a parliamentary group of 17 members of the National Assembly, with Mélenchon as the group's president. In the 2019 European Parliament election in France, it won six seats, below its expectations.
In 2022, Mélenchon again became the party's candidate for president, and later Christiane Taubira, winner of the 2022 French People's Primary, endorsed Mélenchon. In the first round of 2022 French presidential election voting in April, Mélenchon came third, garnering 7.7 million votes (21.95%), narrowly behind second-place finisher Marine Le Pen.