Alfortville Congress
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The Alfortville Congress was the founding national congress of the French Socialist Party
(Parti socialiste or PS). It took place on May 4, 1969. The old French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) expanded to include Alain Savary
's Union of Clubs for the Renewal of the Left
(UCRG) and dissident from François Mitterrand
's Convention of Republican Institutions
(CIR).
Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...
(Parti socialiste or PS). It took place on May 4, 1969. The old French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) expanded to include Alain Savary
Alain Savary
Alain Savary was a French Socialist politician, deputy to the National Assembly of France during the Fourth and Fifth Republic, chairman of the Socialist Party and a government minister in the 1950s and in 1981, when he was nominated by President François Mitterrand as Minister of National...
's Union of Clubs for the Renewal of the Left
Union of Clubs for the Renewal of the Left
The ' was a socialist club in France led by Alain Savary.The UCRG included clubs led by Alain Savary and Pierre Bérégovoy. The UCRG joined the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left before merging into the new PS at the Alfortville Congress....
(UCRG) and dissident from François Mitterrand
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...
's Convention of Republican Institutions
Convention of Republican Institutions
The ' was a socialist and republican party in France led by François Mitterrand. The CIR, founded in 1964 transformed from a loosely organized club to a formal political party by the time of Mitterrand's candidacy in the 1965 election...
(CIR).