PRG and Greens attempt to form a group in the Assembly

From Challenges.fr

The president of the Radical Left Party (PRG), Jean-Michel Baylet, has confirmed that the radicals of the left and the greens will try to constitute a group a the National Assembly. The senator, who was accompanying new PRG members of parliament, made clear that his friends would ask that the number of members needed to create a group at the Assembly should be wound back from 20 to 15.

"The opposition is made up of different elements. We do not wish to sit in a monolithic group and I hope that the Socialist party will respect its allies and will not oppose the formation of this group", said the Tarn-et-Garonne senator in the corridors of the Bourbon Palace. "We actually have 17 members. We still have a few days to find three other parliamentarians. We are well advanced in our negotiations. There are already nine radicals, four Greens, a number of overseas MPs and others with whom we are currently speaking" continued Jean-Michel Baylet.

He also added that in the case where his friends would not gather the twenty MPs necessary, Gérard Charasse (PRG) et Noël Mamère (Greens) had been demanded to ask the office of the Assembly a lowering of the membership level. Between 1997 and 2002, the Radical-Citizens-Greens (RCV) existed in the Assembly, gathering together the radical left, Greens, supporters of Michel Chevènement and various left of centre representatives. From 2002 to 2007 certain radical left members had attached themselves to the Socialist grouping, others joined the independents with Greens and several various Left.