Editing Radical Party of the Left (section)

{{Distinguish|Radical Party (France)}}
{{primary sources|date=May 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox political party
| name             = Radical Party of the Left
| native_name      = Parti radical de Gauche
| logo             = Logo - PRG, le centre gauche.svg
| colorcode        = {{party color|Radical Party of the Left}}
| abbreviation     = PRG
| leader1_title    = President
| leader1_name     = [[Guillaume Lacroix]]
| leader2_title    = Founder
| leader2_name     = [[Maurice Faure]]
| foundation       = {{ubl|class=nowrap|
 |{{start date and age|1971}} (GEARS)
 |{{start date and age|1972}} (MGRS)
 |{{start date and age|1973}} (MRG)
 |{{start date and age|1994}} (Radical)
 |{{start date and age|1996}} (PRS)
 |{{start date and age|1998}} (PRG)
 |{{start date and age|2019}} (PRG,<br>refoundation)
}}
| dissolved        = {{end date and age|2017|12|9|df=yes}} (1998 PRG)
| merged           = [[Radical Movement]] (majority)
| split            = [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]]<br />[[Radical Movement]] (2019 PRG)
| headquarters     = 3, Avenue Constant Coquelin <br />F - 75007, [[Paris]]
| youth_wing       = [[Young Radicals of the Left]]
| ideology         = [[Social liberalism]]<br>[[Classical radicalism|Radicalism]]
| position         = [[Centre-left politics|Centre-left]]{{refn|<ref name="AnttiroikoMälkiä2007">{{cite book|author1=Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko|author2=Matti Mälkiä|title=Encyclopedia of Digital Government|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDrTMazYhdkC&pg=PA389|access-date=19 July 2013|year=2007|publisher=Idea Group Inc (IGI)|isbn=978-1-59140-790-4|page=389}}</ref><ref name="Mondon2013">{{cite book|author=Aurélien Mondon|title=The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia: A Populist Hegemony?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7OSuKXwUr5YC&pg=PP27|access-date=27 July 2013|year=2013|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4724-0526-5|page=27}}</ref><ref name="Hubé2013">{{cite book|author=Nicolas Hubé|chapter=France|editor=Nicolò Conti|title=Party Attitudes Towards the EU in the Member States: Parties for Europe, Parties Against Europe|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lpKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-93656-5|page=24}}</ref>}}
| membership_year  = 2022
| membership       = 3,500<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.midilibre.fr/2022/09/11/en-occitanie-les-radicaux-de-gauche-campent-sur-leur-position-10536931.php | title=En Occitanie, les Radicaux de gauche campent sur leur position }}</ref>
| seats1_title     = [[National Assembly of France|National Assembly]]
| seats1           = {{Composition bar|0|577|hex={{party color|Radical Party of the Left}}}}
| seats2_title     = [[Senate (France)|Senate]]
| seats2           = {{composition bar|4|348|hex={{party color|Radical Party of the Left}}}}
| seats3_title     = [[European Parliament]]
| seats3           = {{composition bar|0|79|hex={{party color|Radical Party of the Left}}}}
| seats4_title     = [[Regional councils of France|Presidency of Regional Councils]]
| seats4           = {{composition bar|0|17|hex={{party color|Radical Party of the Left}}}}
| seats5_title     = [[Departmental councils (France)|Presidency of Departmental Councils]]
| seats5           = {{composition bar|2|95|hex={{party color|Radical Party of the Left}}}}
| international    = 
| national         =
| european         = 
| europarl         = [[European Radical Alliance|ERA]] (1994–1999)<br />[[Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats|S&D]] (2014–2017)
| colours          = {{color box|{{party color|Radical Party of the Left}}|border=darkgray}} [[Yellow]] {{Color box|#34495e|border=darkgray}} [[Blue]]
| website          = {{url|www.partiradicaldegauche.fr}}
| country          = France
}}
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The '''Radical Party of the Left''' ({{langx|fr|Parti radical de gauche}}, PRG) is a [[Social liberalism|social-liberal]]<ref name="Nordsieck">{{cite web|first=Wolfram|last=Nordsieck |url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/france.html |title=France|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|date=2017}}</ref><ref name="Kempf2007">{{cite book|author=Udo Kempf|title=Das politische System Frankreichs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BVfgYBUSwsC&pg=PA190|year=2007|publisher=Springer DE|isbn=978-3-531-32973-4|page=190}}</ref> [[List of political parties in France|political party in France]]. A party in the [[Classical radicalism|Radical]] tradition, since 1972 the PRG has been a close ally of the major party of the [[centre-left]] in [[France]], the [[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]] ({{langx|fr|link=no|Parti socialiste}}, PS).<ref name="Bell2002">{{cite book|author=David S. Bell|title=French Politics Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s2lIt4ssdQMC&pg=PA65|access-date=27 July 2013|year=2002|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-5876-9|page=65}}</ref> After the 2017 [[2017 French presidential election|presidential]] and [[2017 French legislative election|legislative]] elections, negotiations to merge the PRG with the [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]] (from which the PRG emerged in 1972) began and the refounding congress to reunite the parties into the [[Radical Movement]] was held on 9 and 10 December 2017.<ref>{{cite news|author=Marion Mourgue|title=Les radicaux font un pas de plus vers l'unité... et l'indépendance|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/2017/09/17/25001-20170917ARTFIG00012-les-radicaux-font-un-pas-de-plus-vers-l-unite8230-et-l-independance.php|newspaper=Le Figaro|date=17 September 2017|access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Charline Hurel|title=Les radicaux de gauche et de droite en voie de réunion pour peser au centre|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2017/09/16/separee-depuis-1972-la-famille-radicale-fait-universite-d-ete-commune_5186613_823448.html|newspaper=Le Monde|date=16 September 2017|access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref> However, a faction of ex-PRG members, including its last president [[Sylvia Pinel]], split from the Radical Movement in February 2019 due to its expected alliance with [[La République En Marche]] in the [[2019 European Parliament election in France|European elections]] and resurrected the PRG.<ref>{{cite news|author=Tristan Quinault-Maupoil|title=À gauche, les échéances électorales divisent les radicaux|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/2019/02/11/01002-20190211ARTFIG00283--gauche-les-echeances-electorales-divisent-les-radicaux.php|newspaper=Le Figaro|date=11 February 2019|access-date=18 February 2019}}</ref>