Christian Picquet

Christian Lamothe (born 1952 in Paris), better known with his pseudonym Christian Picquet, is a French activist and politician. He is the leader of the new Unitary Left party.^[1]

Picquet joined the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) in 1968, but left the party in 1971 to join a smaller internationalist communist party. He rejoined the LCR in 1980 and was elected to the LCR's Politburo in 1984. As a member of the Politburo, he was responsible for the party's relations with other left-wing parties in France, and he developed the LCR's first relations with the larger French Communist Party (PCF).

Picquet was a member of the "Unir" movement within the LCR, which favoured at first close ties with other left-wing parties such as the

far left parties, before calling on the creation of a common party of the left with the PCF. This faction, known as Unir was a minority faction within the LCR and disappeared with the creation of the New Anticapitalist Party

, the LCR's successor party.

In 2009, at the creation of the New Anticapitalist Party, he founded the Unitary Left with a part of Unir minority. The Unitarian Left joined the PCF-led Left Front. He was selected to be the third candidate on the Left Front's list in the Île-de-France constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections.

References

^ "Personne ne propose des primaires au Front de gauche". Libération (in French). Retrieved April 9, 2011.

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[1] "Personne ne propose des primaires au Front de gauche". Libération (in French). Retrieved April 9, 2011.

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