Independent Workers' Party
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The Independent Workers' Party (Parti ouvrier indépendant, POI) is a French
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...

 far-left political party founded in June 2008 after the dissolution of its predecessor, the Workers' Party
Workers' Party (France)
The Workers' Party was a French socialist party. It was formed by the Trotskyist Internationalist Communist Party led by Pierre Boussel, better known under his pseudonym Pierre Lambert, together with a number of other socialists with whom they worked in the Force Ouvrière union...

. It claims 10,071 members.

Amongst its four General Secretaries are former presidential candidates Gérard Schivardi
Gérard Schivardi
Gérard Schivardi is a French politician. He contended in the French presidential election of 2007 under the colours of the Workers' Party of Trotskyist legacy. He came last in the first round of balloting on 22 April, obtaining 0.34% of the popular vote .-Biography:Schivardi was born in 1950 in...

 and Daniel Gluckstein
Daniel Gluckstein
Daniel Gluckstein is a French Trotskyist politician for running for French presidential election of 2002 as candidate of the Workers' Party .-Biography:...

.

See also

  • Politics of France
    Politics of France
    France is a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, in which the President of France is head of state and the Prime Minister of France is the head of government, and there is a pluriform, multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is...

  • List of political parties in France
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