Radical Party of the Left

The Radical Party of the Left (French: Parti Radical de Gauche, PRG) is a social-liberal political party in France. It has been a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France, the Socialist Party (PS), since 1972.

The President of the PRG is Jean-Michel Baylet and its Secretary-General is Guillaume Lacroix. The party's sole MEP is Virginie Rozière, who sits with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group.

The party's youth wing is the Young Radicals of the Left. The party was formerly a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

History

The party was formed in 1972 by a split from the Republican, Radical, and Radical-Socialist Party, once the dominant party of the French Left. It was founded by Radicals who opposed Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's centrist direction and chose to join the Union of the Left and agree to the Common Programme signed by the Socialist Party (PS) and the French Communist Party (PCF). At that time the party was known as the Movement of the Radical Socialist Left (Mouvement de la Gauche Radicale-Socialiste, MGRS), then as the Movement of Radicals of the Left (Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche, MRG) after 1973.

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Radical Party

Radical Party may refer to:

Worldwide

Transnational Radical Party (1989–present)

Europe

Italian Radicals (2001–present)

Radicals of the Left (2004–2010)

Luxembourg

Radical Party (Luxembourg) (1928–1934)

Radical Socialist Party (Luxembourg) (1925–1932)

Radical Liberal Party (Luxembourg) (1932–1945)

Netherlands

Radical League (1892–1901)

Political Party of Radicals (1968–1991)

Romania

Radical Party (Romania) (1884–19??), see list of political parties in Romania

Serbia

People's Radical Party (1881–1926)

Serbian Radical Party (1991–present)

Spain

Radical Republican Party (1908–1934)

Radical Socialist Republican Party (1929–1934)

Switzerland

Radical Party (1830s–1894), see Regeneration (Switzerland)

Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (1894–2009)

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Radical Republican Party

The Radical Republican Party (Spanish: Partido Republicano Radical), sometimes shortened to the Radical Party, was a Spanish political party founded in 1908 by Alejandro Lerroux in Santander, Cantabria by a split from the historical Republican Union party led by Nicolás Salmerón.

History

Having uncertain ideological bases, the party's ideology shifted significantly over time from its initial violent anti-clericalism and its participation in the Tragic Week of 1909 to a coalition with the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right during the Second Spanish Republic in 1931. Its leader, Alejandro Lerroux was a controversial figure known for his corruption and demagogic rhetoric.

The Radicals enjoyed success in Barcelona, rivaling the local Lliga Regionalista and dominated municipal politics in Barcelona; a period during which Lerroux was dogged by accusations of corruption. Lerroux's skills in mobilizing the lower classes, until 1914, earned him the epithet "Emperor of the Paralelo" (after the working-class neighborhood of the city). Traditional republicans were always skeptical of Lerroux's Radicals, likely because of allegations that he was funded by the dynastic Liberal Party as a method to divert the working-class from anarcho-syndicalism.

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Radical Party (Italy)

The Radical Party (Italian: Partito Radicale, PR) was a political party in Italy. For decades it was a bastion of liberalism and radicalism in Italy and proposed itself as the strongest opposition to the Italian political establishment, seen as corrupt and conservative. Although it never reached high shares of vote and never participated in government, the party had close relations with the other parties of the Italian left, from the Republicans and the Socialists to the Communists and Proletarian Democracy, and opened its ranks also to members of other parties, through "double membership".

In 1989 the PR was transformed into the Transnational Radical Party. During the 1990s the Radicals had formed a succession of electoral lists (notably including the Pannella List and Bonino List), without having a structured party and sometimes dividing themselves between competing lists. The current incarnation of the party is the Italian Radicals, founded in 2001.

History

The PR was founded in 1955 by the left-wing of the Italian Liberal Party as the ideal continuation of the historical Radical Party, active from 1877 to 1925, emphasising liberal and secular issues, such as separation of church and state, and the full implementation of the Constitution. Leading members of the new party included Bruno Villabruna, Mario Pannunzio, Ernesto Rossi, Leo Valiani, Guido Calogero, Giovanni Ferrara, Paolo Ungari, Eugenio Scalfari and Marco Pannella.