The Young Radicals of the Left ( French: ''Jeunes Radicaux de Gauche'' abbreviated as ''JRG''), are the youth organisation of the French

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Radical Party of the Left The Radical Party of the Left (, PRG) is a social-liberal political party in France. A party in the Radical tradition, since 1972 the PRG has been a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France, the Socialist Party (, PS). Af ...

. In opposition to its common understanding of its name, the YRL are a

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. The party gathers members under 29 years of age all throughout

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Organisation

It is led by its president elected for two years by all members of the party. The President itself appoints six members of the National Board and furthermore, the President also appoints National Officers. Since May 2008, the party organises itself autonomously within the

National Board

*President: Cindy Chades *Vice-President: Sofiane Igoudjil *Vice-President: Nicolas Sauzeat *Vice-President: Noémie Veraquin *General Secretary: Lucas Duval *Deputy General Secretary: Anaïs Salabert *Treasurer: Axel Bossy

National Officers

The Young Radicals of the Left have 12 National Officers.

National Council

The national council is the sovereign body of the Young Radicals of the Left and gathers the 7 members of the National Board, the 12 National Officers, Regional Delegates and members who are representing the YRL in various institutions.

Former presidents

*Jean-Francois Auduc (1973) *Jean-Pierre Mattei (1976–1977) *Jean-Maurice Duval (1977–1978) *Daniel Sejourne (1980–1981) *Bruno Martin (1981–1984) *Daniel Guerin (1984–1986) *Jean-Marc Ambrosini (1986–1987) * Thierry Braillard (1987–1991) *Julien Duquenne (2002–2005) *Olivier Maillebuau (2005–2010) *Sandra-Elise Reviriego (2010–2012) *Selim-Alexandre Arrad-Baudean (2012–2014) *Géraldine Guilpain (2014–2016) *Yanis Mallion (2016–2019) *''unknown'' (2019–2021)

Policies

*The YRL advocate

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, insisting on

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(

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), and positioning them against the idea of

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as advocating equality of treatment between all citizens. *The YRL also defend the idea of

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and

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and the concept of

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supporting

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, right to abort and

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. *The Young Radicals of the Left desire a ''6th Republic'' with more transparent and democratic institutions. *The YRL support the idea of a Federal Europe and support also the

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. *The Young Radicals of the Left wishes to apply the concept of

Laïcité (; 'secularism') is the constitutional principle of secularism in France. Article 1 of the French Constitution is commonly interpreted as the separation of civil society and religious society. It discourages religious involvement in governmen ...

over the whole territory of France (nowaday, in Alsace and Moselle, secularism between the Church and the State is still not implemented). They asked for introducing the notion of

in the IFLRY Manifesto in

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in 2011; their motion was accepted.

International affiliations

The YRL are full members of the

International Federation of Liberal Youth The International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY) is a Political international & liberal youth organization. It consists of a global membership of national youth organizations. These are often but not exclusively affiliated with political p ...

(IFLRY) and associate members of the LYMEC since 2013.The time is now for young liberals as LYMEC holds pre-election Congress in Bucharest
19/11/2013. A member of the YRL was elected President of the LYMEC in 1994.

International Officers

* Since 2014 : Yanis Malion (Vice-President in charge of external relationships) * 2012-2014 : Olympio Kyprianou * 2010-2012 : Nasha Gagnebin * 2008-2010 : Romain Rocher * 2008 : Sandra-Elise Reviriego * 2006-2008 : Michel Lejeune-Mengwang * 2006 : Caroline Gillet

References

External links

Young Radicals of the Left's Manifesto (in English)Young Radicals of the Left (in French)Radical Party of the Left website (in French)New staff members - Sept 2014 (in French)
Youth wings of political parties in France