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Christian Lamothe (born 1952 in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

), better known with his pseudonym Christian Picquet, is a French activist and politician. He is the leader of the new

Unitary Left Unitary Left (''Gauche unitaire'', GU) was a political party in France that was originally faction (under the name ''Unir'' or Unite) within the Revolutionary Communist League. The party is led by Christian Picquet, a former member of the Re ...

party. 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

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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 The French Communist Party (, , PCF) is a Communism, communist list of political parties in France, party in France. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its Member of the European Parliament, MEPs sit with The Left in the ...

(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

rather than

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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 New Anticapitalist Party ( , NPA ) is a far-left political party in France founded in February 2009. The party launched with 9,200 members and was intended to unify the fractured movements of the French radical Left, and attract new activ ...

, the LCR's successor party. In 2009, at the creation of the

, he founded the

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 The Île-de-France (; ; ) is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. Centered on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the cou ...

constituency ahead of the

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References

1952 births Living people Politicians from Paris Revolutionary Communist League (France) politicians Unitary Left politicians {{France-politician-stub