Ecologist Party

Ecologist Party Parti écologiste
President	François de Rugy
President in the National Assembly	Gilles Le Gendre
Founders	François de Rugy Jean-Vincent Placé
Founded	2 September 2015
Split from	The Ecologists
Ideology	Green politics Green liberalism Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-left1
National affiliation	Ensemble Citoyens (since 2021) La République En Marche! (since 2017) Union of Democrats and Ecologists (2015–2016)
Colours	Blue, green
National Assembly	1 / 577
Senate	0 / 348
Website
le-parti-ecologiste.fr
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The Ecologist Party (French: Parti écologiste, PÉ), founded as Écologistes !, is a centre-left French political party that holds pro-European views,² created in September 2015 by François de Rugy, President of the Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) group in the National Assembly and Jean-Vincent Placé, the President of the EELV group in the Senate.

This party was initially created as a reaction to the decision taken by EELV of making alliances with the Left Front. The aim of UDE founders was to create a reformist centre-left party, accepting globalization and market economy, and supporting president François Hollande. The founders of UDE declared they wanted to become a strong ally of the Socialist Party, and attract people from EELV or from the Democratic Movement.³⁴

Since 2017, the party is part of La Republique en Marche!