Militant Forces (french: Forces militantes) was an organized
caucus in the French
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...
.
The faction was founded in 2003 by
Marc Dolez, whose motion obtained 4.38% at the
Dijon Congress
The Dijon Congress was the twentieth national congress of the French Socialist Party (''Parti socialiste'' or PS). It took place from May 16 to 18, 2003.
The objective of the Congress was to start the reconstruction of the weakened party after it ...
the same year. Dolez was close the
New World
The term ''New World'' is often used to mean the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas."America." ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: Oxford University Press, p. ...
caucus. In 2005, members of the faction based around the ''Démocratie & Socialisme'' magazine joined the faction but left in 2007.
Dolez supported the left-wing motion led by
Benoît Hamon
Benoît Hamon (; born 26 June 1967) is a French politician known for his former role within the Socialist Party (PS) and Party of European Socialists (PES) and his political party Génération.s.
Hamon joined the Socialist Party in 1988 and ...
at the
Reims Congress in 2008, but Dolez, along with
Jean-Luc Mélenchon (
Trait d'Union) left the PS to found the
Left Party (PG).
External links
Official site Factions of the Socialist Party (France)
Political party factions in France
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