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New classification introduced

I've established minor parties section (as corresponding fr.wiki article has); the obvious reason for this move is that considering the plentitude of 'very minor' parties (Nouvelle Action Royaliste) in wikipedia, the table could become full after adding links to these minor ones. (some parties marked as 'minor' before, such as Mouvement pour la France, Rassemblement pour la France etc have their MPs and considerable influence, which Rassemblement démocrate and some communist groupings do not possess. These should have a special section now.) --Constanz - Talk 15:51, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I've kept all 4 green parties in the main parties section; it's unclear which of these have no remarkable influence. I've retained remarks 'minor' in the table as well; the term is relative and remains useful.--Constanz - Talk 15:54, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Moved 3 of them to minor section. On Les Verts is relevant nowadays. David.Monniaux 17:59, 26 August 2006 (UTC)Ã

Major & Minor parties

There probably needs to be a re-evaluation of major and minor parties. France is moving closer towards a 'two-party' system.

Legislative elections

1997 - RPR (15.7) + PS (23.5) = 39.2%

2002 - UMP (33.3) + PS (24.1) = 57.4%

2007 - UMP (39.5) + PS (24.7) = 64.2%

UMP & PS definitely the 2 major parties in France.

National Front (FN) is a borderline case (low legislative result in 2007 but reasonably good results in presidential 2007 and in 2002 presidential/legislative elections). Probably major?

Communist Party

2002 - 4.8%

2007 - 4.3%

Low popular vote, but manages to win a fair number of seats. I think they are now a minor party.

Les Verts (Greens) - minor

UDF/MoDem/NC

2002 - UDF - 4.9%

2007 - MoDem - 7.6% /NC - 2.4%

NC cannot be considered major party, having got only 2.4% of vote (even though they will win a fair number of seats). MoDem is a 'new' party contesting 1st election, so it might still be premature to make a call as to whether it is major or minor.Mrodowicz 21:04, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

The fact that the RPR+PS only account for 39.2%, was the in 1997 the UDF was still a major party. A better comparison would be RPR+UDF+PS in this case --Petrovic-Njegos (talk) 13:15, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Petrovic-Njegos - My point was that France appears to be moving towards a mild 2-party system, and that there is probably a need to reevaluate the status of the other parties. The last 2 elections (particularly the last), seem to indicate this. I'm inclined to say (and this may still be a little premature - we may have to wait for 1 more election) that the only real major parties appear to be the UMP and PS. The others (MoDem, FN, Communists and Greens) would probably be better classified as "significant minor parties" to distinguish them from the numerous micro-parties contesting elections in France. Mrodowicz (talk) 07:18, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

MPF & RPF

Both Parties are not as "far-right" as the Front National or the MNR. They are both "govermental right" and connected to the UMP. You should change the declariations into "far-right" and "govermental-right".

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