Republican and Socialist Left

The Republican and Socialist Left (, GRS) is a socialist political party in France. It was founded on 3 February 2019 after the merger of the Alternative for a Republican, Ecologist and Socialist Program (APRÉS) and the Citizen and Republican Movement (MRC) of Jean-Luc Laurent and Jean-Pierre Chevènement. APRÉS had been founded in October 2018 by Emmanuel Maurel and Marie-Noëlle Lienemann after their departure from the Socialist Party and was close to La France Insoumise. History Alternative for a Republican, Ecologist and Socialist Movement The Alternative for a Republican, Ecologist and Socialist Movement (APRÉS) had 650 to 1 000 members. These included politician Gaëtan Gorce, Christophe Premat and political researcher Rémi Lefebvre, who signed a call that initiated the merger of the party with the MRC into a new political organization, whose founding congress took place on 2 and 3 February 2019. After splitting from the Socialist Party (PS), APRÉS formed a "new Popular Front" with La France Insoumise (LFI) to present a joint electoral list for the 2019 European Parliament elections. Emmanuel Maurel described the elections as the "first step" in the alliance between the two parties.