Independent Left
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The Independent Left was a French parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies of France
during the French Third Republic
between 1932 and 1940. The Independent Left united small centre-left parties.
The following parties sat in the Independent Left group.
The GI group supported the Cartels des Gauches and the Popular Front
Chamber of Deputies of France
Chamber of Deputies was the name given to several parliamentary bodies in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:* 1814–1848 during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy, the Chamber of Deputies was the Lower chamber of the French Parliament, elected by census suffrage.*...
during the French Third Republic
French Third Republic
The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France...
between 1932 and 1940. The Independent Left united small centre-left parties.
The following parties sat in the Independent Left group.
- League of the Young Republic (LJR)
- Radical-Socialist Party Camille PelletanRadical-Socialist Party Camille PelletanThe ' was a social liberal party in France founded in 1934 at the Clermont-Ferrand Congress of the Radical-Socialist Party as a reaction to the participation of Radicals in the right-wing Gaston Doumergue cabinet. The PRS-CP was led by Gabriel Cudenet but never achieved any lasting success. In...
(PRS-CP) - Social-National PartySocial-National PartyThe ' was a political party in France founded in 1933 by Jean Hennessy, a former cabinet minister. Hennessy, elected deputy for Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes was rarely active in the Independent Left parliamentary group. However, Hennessy was part of The Vichy 80 in 1940 which refused to give full...
(PSN) - Party of Proletarian UnityParty of Proletarian UnityThe Party of Proletarian Unity was a French socialist political party.-History:It was formed on December 21, 1930 by leftists expelled from the French Communist Party , together with some who had previously belonged to the left-wing of the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière...
(PUP) - Frontist PartyFrontist PartyThe ' was a political party in France founded in 1936 by Gaston Bergery and Georges Izard. The PF participated in the Popular Front. Gaston Bergery, a former member of the left wing of the Radical-Socialist Party, where he was known as a "Radical-Bolshevik" for his left-wing leanings and staunch...
(PF) - former members of the Republican-Socialist PartyRepublican-Socialist PartyThe Republican-Socialist Party was a French socialist political party during the French Third Republic, founded in 1911 and dissolved in 1934. It was founded by socialists who refused to join the SFIO founded in 1905. The PRS was a non-Marxist "reformist socialist" party located between the SFIO...
who did not join the Socialist Republican UnionSocialist Republican UnionThe ' was a political party in France founded in 1935 during the late Third Republic which united the right-wing of the French Section of the Workers' International.The USR was founded by the following parties:*Socialist Party of France-Jean Jaurès Union...
(USR)
The GI group supported the Cartels des Gauches and the Popular Front
Popular Front (France)
The Popular Front was an alliance of left-wing movements, including the French Communist Party , the French Section of the Workers' International and the Radical and Socialist Party, during the interwar period...