Bloc des gauches

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Lefts Bloc
Bloc des gauches
President
Radicalism
Socialism
Anti-clericalism
Factions:
Democratic socialism
Social democracy
Liberal socialism
Social liberalism
Political positionLeft-wing (majority)
Colours  Red

The Lefts Bloc (

International Socialist Congress of Amsterdam of 1904 and the subsequent withdrawal of Socialist ministers from the government. Although the Left won the 1906 legislative election, the Socialists did not repeat their alliances with the Radicals and the Radical-Socialists and other Republican forces.[3]

History

Following the

nationalist movement.[5]

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social reform.[6]

Following the

International Socialist Congress of Amsterdam in 1904, the Socialists were called by Jules Guesde's Socialist Party of France (Parti socialiste de France) to quit the government.[7] The Socialist ministers thereafter withdrew themselves from the Republican Coalition, which dissolution was completed in October 1906 with the coming of Georges Clemenceau to power.[8]

List of leaders

Composition

Party Main ideology Leader/s
Radical-Socialist Party
Radicalism
 Émile Combes (last)
Democratic Republican Alliance Liberalism
Marie-Adolphe Carnot
French Socialist Party Socialism Jean Jaurès
Independent Radicals Social liberalism Laurent Bonnevay

Electoral results

Chamber of Deputies
Election year # of
overall votes 		% of
overall vote 		# of
overall seats won 		+/– Leader
1902 4,051,535 (#1) 47.98
314 / 589
–
Émile Combes

See also

  • History of the Left in France

References

  1. JSTOR 1899204
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  2. ISBN 978-0-598-77887-1
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  3. ISBN 978-0-8071-2020-0
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  4. ISBN 978-1-4008-5627-5
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  5. ISBN 978-2-87027-549-8
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  6. ^ Buell, Raymond Leslie (1920). Contemporary French Politics. D. Appleton. p. 23.
  7. ISBN 978-2-03-253106-6
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  8. doi:10.1017/S1479244322000543
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  9. ISBN 978-3-030-50484-7
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