Fédération Régions et Peuples Solidaires
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Fédération Régions et Peuples Solidaires (French: ‘Federation of Regions and Peoples with Solidarity’) is a political federation of various regionalist
parties (particularly of centre-left
affiliation) in France
. It was founded in 1995, in order to organise a coordinated combat against "Parisian centrism" and "Jacobin
conception of peoples" on the French state level. Its president is Gustave Alirol, the chairman of Partit Occitan
.
The federation has ties with the European Free Alliance
. François Alfonsi
of the Partitu di a Nazione Corsa
was elected as an MEP in the 2009 European election
(South-East
) on the Europe Écologie
list, and is a member of The Greens–European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament.
Members of Fédération ("federated parties") are:
Former member:
Regionalism (politics)
Regionalism is a term used in international relations. Regionalism also constitutes one of the three constituents of the international commercial system...
parties (particularly of centre-left
Centre-left
Centre-left is a political term that describes individuals, political parties or organisations such as think tanks whose ideology lies between the centre and the left on the left-right spectrum...
affiliation) in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. It was founded in 1995, in order to organise a coordinated combat against "Parisian centrism" and "Jacobin
Jacobin (politics)
A Jacobin , in the context of the French Revolution, was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary far-left political movement. The Jacobin Club was the most famous political club of the French Revolution. So called from the Dominican convent where they originally met, in the Rue St. Jacques ,...
conception of peoples" on the French state level. Its president is Gustave Alirol, the chairman of Partit Occitan
Partit Occitan
The Occitan Party is a political party in France. Its aims include greater autonomy for the Occitania region of southern France. The Occitan Party was formed in Toulouse in 1987 through the union of different occitanist movements , of candidates to the 1986 regional elections a d of various...
.
The federation has ties with the European Free Alliance
European Free Alliance
The European Free Alliance is a European political party. It consists of various national-level political parties in Europe which advocate either full political independence , or some form of devolution or self-governance for their country or region...
. François Alfonsi
François Alfonsi
François Alfonsi is a French politician, Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the South-East France constituency and Mayor of Osani....
of the Partitu di a Nazione Corsa
Partitu di a Nazione Corsa
The Party of the Corsican Nation is a political party seeking autonomy for Corsica. It was founded in Corte in 2002 by members of three nationalist parties, Union of the Corsican People , A Scelta Nova and A Mossa Naziunale....
was elected as an MEP in the 2009 European election
European Parliament election, 2009 (France)
European elections to elect 72 French Members of the European Parliament were held on Sunday 7 June 2009.Due to the entry of Romania and Bulgaria in the European Union in 2007, the number of seats allocated to France was revised from 78 seats to 72 seats, a loss of 6 seats...
(South-East
South-East France (European Parliament constituency)
In European elections, South-East France is a constituency of the European Parliament. It consists of the regions of Corsica, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Rhône-Alpes.-2009:-2004:-External links:* *...
) on the Europe Écologie
Europe Écologie
Europe Écologie was a French electoral coalition created for the 2009 European elections composed of The Greens and other ecologists and regionalists....
list, and is a member of The Greens–European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament.
Members of Fédération ("federated parties") are:
- BreizhBrittanyBrittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
- Union démocratique bretonneUnion Démocratique BretonneThe Breton Democratic Union is the main autonomist and regionalist party in Brittany and Loire-Atlantique. It advocates devolution for Brittany as well as the promotion of the Breton language and its associated culture....
- Union démocratique bretonne
- CatalunyaNorthern CataloniaNorthern Catalonia is a term that is sometimes used, particularly in Catalan writings, to refer to the territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659...
- Bloc CatalàBloc CatalàThe Bloc Català is a Catalan nationalist political party in Roussillon , France. It was established on October 23, 2001....
- Esquerra Republicana de CatalunyaEsquerra Republicana de CatalunyaThe Republican Left of Catalonia is a left wing Catalan independentist political party in Spain. It is also the main sponsor of the independence movement from France and Spain in the territories known among Catalan nationalists as Països Catalans...
- Bloc Català
- CorsicaCorsicaCorsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
- Partitu di a Nazione CorsaPartitu di a Nazione CorsaThe Party of the Corsican Nation is a political party seeking autonomy for Corsica. It was founded in Corte in 2002 by members of three nationalist parties, Union of the Corsican People , A Scelta Nova and A Mossa Naziunale....
- Partitu di a Nazione Corsa
- ElsassAlsaceAlsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
- Union du peuple alsacien
- Euskal HerriaNorthern Basque CountryThe French Basque Country or Northern Basque Country situated within the western part of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques constitutes the north-eastern part of the Basque Country....
- Eusko AlkartasunaEusko AlkartasunaEusko Alkartasuna is a Basque nationalist political party operating in Spain and France. The Basque language name means Basque Solidarity and abbreviated as EA. The party describes itself as a Basque nationalist, democratic, popular, progressive and non-denominational party...
- Basque Nationalist PartyBasque Nationalist PartyThe Basque National Party is the largest and oldest Basque nationalist party. It is currently the largest political party in the Basque Autonomous Community also with a minor presence in Navarre and a marginal one in the French Basque Country...
- Eusko Alkartasuna
- SavouèSavoieSavoie is a French department located in the Rhône-Alpes region in the French Alps.Together with the Haute-Savoie, Savoie is one of the two departments of the historic region of Savoy that was annexed by France on June 14, 1860, following the signature of the Treaty of Turin on March 24, 1860...
- Mouvement Région SavoieMouvement Région SavoieThe Savoy Region Movement is a French regionalist political party based in Savoy.The party supports the creation of a Savoyard region composed of the departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie. Both of these departments are part of the larger Rhône-Alpes region, an 'artificial' region built in 1972...
- Mouvement Région Savoie
- OccitàniaOccitaniaOccitania , also sometimes lo País d'Òc, "the Oc Country"), is the region in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language spoken, and where it is sometimes still used, for the most part as a second language...
- Partit OccitanPartit OccitanThe Occitan Party is a political party in France. Its aims include greater autonomy for the Occitania region of southern France. The Occitan Party was formed in Toulouse in 1987 through the union of different occitanist movements , of candidates to the 1986 regional elections a d of various...
- Partit Occitan
Former member:
- Franche-ComtâtFranche-ComtéFranche-Comté the former "Free County" of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy, is an administrative region and a traditional province of eastern France...
- Rassemblement du peuple franc-comtois (ceased existence in 1999)
- BreizhBrittanyBrittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
- Frankiz Breizh (merged with the UDB in 2008)