La France Insoumise
French political party
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| 2024 | La France Insoumise improved its performance in the European Parliament elections, increasing its vote share to 9.87% and gaining additional seats, ranking 4th in the election. |
| 2024 | Under Manuel Bompard's leadership, La France Insoumise achieves 28.21% of votes in legislative elections, winning 5 seats while remaining in opposition and participating in the NFP coalition. |
| 2024 | La France Insoumise won 71 seats in the legislative elections, contributing the largest proportion of seats to the New Popular Front's total of 192 seats. |
| June 2024 | La France Insoumise helped form the New Popular Front, a left-wing electoral alliance in response to the National Rally's success in the EU parliamentary election. |
| 2023 | La France Insoumise first participates in Senate elections after previously avoiding them due to the electoral college system. The party attempts to form united lists with NUPES partners before creating their own lists. |
| 2022 | La France Insoumise increases its electoral performance, gaining 13.82% of votes in legislative elections, winning 52 seats while remaining in opposition. The party participates in the NUPES coalition. |
| 2022 | Mélenchon's La France Insoumise party petition reached the threshold of 150,000 signatures, formally confirming his candidacy for the presidential election. |
| 2022 | Christiane Taubira, winner of the French People's Primary, endorses Mélenchon's presidential candidacy. |
| April 2022 | Mélenchon runs again as the party's presidential candidate, receiving 7.7 million votes and coming third, narrowly behind Marine Le Pen. |
| November 2020 | Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced his intention to run for the 2022 presidential election, conditioning his candidacy on a party petition. |
| 2019 | In the European Parliament election in France, La France Insoumise wins six seats, falling short of their expectations. |
| 2018 | Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France Insoumise leadership made a significant ideological shift, abandoning sovereigntist and ultra-secularist stances. This decision led to the expulsion of key members, marking a clear change in the party's direction. |
| 2017 | Jean-Luc Mélenchon ran for President of the French Republic, securing 7,059,951 votes (19.58%) and ranking 4th in the first round of the election. |
| 2017 | Following the French legislative election, La France Insoumise forms a parliamentary group of 17 members in the National Assembly, with Mélenchon as the group's president. |
| August 2017 | First summer university (Les AmFIs) organized at Marseille Saint-Charles University, featuring four days of debates, conferences, and workshops to discuss the movement's future. |
| June 2017 | Legislative elections where La France Insoumise candidates were 60% from civil society, with an average age of around 43 years. All invested candidates signed the movement's charter and the ethical charter of Anticor, committed to political ethics and fighting corruption. |
| April 2017 | Mélenchon runs as the party's presidential candidate, coming fourth in the first round with 19.6% of the vote, narrowly missing qualification for the second round. |
| 2016 | Jean-Luc Mélenchon launches La France Insoumise (LFI), a new left-wing political party in France, aiming to implement an eco-socialist and democratic socialist programme. |
| December 1 2016 | Publication of the political programme by Éditions du Seuil, which quickly became a top 10 best-seller by December 9th, with 110,000 copies printed. |
| October 15 2016 | Lille convention held in Saint-André-lez-Lille, attended by nearly 1,000 people, where the programme was adopted and twenty candidates for the 2017 French legislative election were presented. |
| August 28 2016 | Second meeting took place in the gardens of the Toulouse Observatory. |
| June 5 2016 | First meeting held in Place Stalingrad, Paris, as a march reportedly attended by about 10,000 people. |
| February 10 2016 | La France Insoumise was founded, inspired by political movements in Spain, the UK, and the US, with a belief that traditional political parties no longer serve democracy. |
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