{{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) The Independents of the Left (french: Indépendants de gauche, IG) was a French

parliamentary A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ...

technical group in the

Chamber of Deputies of France Chamber of Deputies (french: Chambre des députés) was a parliamentary body in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: * 1814–1848 during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy, the Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of ...

during the

French Third Republic The French Third Republic (french: Troisième République, sometimes written as ) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940 ...

. The group was formed by centre-right independents and members of political parties too small to form their own parliamentary party. It was roughly situated to the right of the Radical Left party (conservative Radicals) and the left of the Republicans of the Left party (conservative Liberals), and its members' political opinions tended to overlap with these two parties. It was considered an affiliate of the

Democratic Republican Alliance The Democratic Alliance (french: Alliance démocratique, AD), originally called Democratic Republican Alliance (, ARD), was a French political party created in 1901 by followers of Léon Gambetta such as Raymond Poincaré, who would be presiden ...

. The group was presided, among others, by

René Besse René Besse (20 February 1891 in Toulon, Var – 13 February 1947) was a French politician. Besse was Minister of Pensions for a few months in the second government of Albert Sarraut Albert-Pierre Sarraut (; 28 July 1872 – 26 November 19 ...

. It contained 26 deputies in the legislature of 1932-6, and 12 in the legislature of 1936-40.

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