political_ideology ecology generation
The Citizenship , Action , Participation for the 21st Century is a minor green ___MASK63___ political party in France , founded by Corinne Lepage in 1996 as a political reflection club . Brice Lalonde ( born 10 February 1946 ) is a former green party leader in France , who ran for President of France in the Presidential elections , 1981 . In 1988 he was named Minister of the Environment , and in 1990 founded the green party ___MASK22___ Generation . The Independent Ecological Movement (" Mouvement Ecologiste Indépendant ") is a political party in France founded by Antoine Waechter , former presidential candidate of The Greens in 1994 . The MEI hoped to replace the Greens as the major green party , but due to the Green ' s electoral deals with larger parties , it failed to do so . They claim to be purely ecologist , and neither on the left or ___MASK53___ . Waechter failed to win enough endorsements to be a candidate in the French presidential election , 1995 . The party ran candidates in the 2004 regional elections and in the European Parliament election , 2004 ( France ) and were able to prevent the Greens from gaining more seats , such as in the Eastern EU parliamentary region where the MEI ' s 3 % were enough to prevent the Greens from taking 2 seats there instead of one . Elections to the European Parliament were held in France on 13 June 2004 . The ___MASK14___ Socialist Party made substantial gains , although this was mainly at the expense of minor parties . The governing Union for a Popular Movement and Union for French Democracy also made gains . Presidential elections took place in France on 23 April and 7 May 1995 , to elect the fifth president of the Fifth Republic . The Socialist incumbent president , François Mitterrand , who had been in office since 1981 , did not stand for a third term . He was 78 , had terminal cancer , and his party had lost the 1993 legislative election in a landslide defeat . Since then , he had been " cohabiting " with a ___MASK53___ - wing cabinet led by Prime Minister Edouard Balladur , a member of the neo - Gaullist RPR party . Balladur had promised the RPR leader , Jacques Chirac , that he would not run for the presidency , but as polls showed him doing well and he had the support of many ___MASK53___ - wing politicians , he decided to run . The competition within the ___MASK53___ between Balladur and Chirac was a major feature of the campaign . A green party is a political party based on the principles of ___MASK17___ . ___MASK22___ Generation ( French : Génération Écologie ) is , together with the Greens ( Les Verts ) , the Independent Ecological Movement ( Mouvement Ecologiste Indépendant ) and Citizenship , Action , Participation for the 21st Century ( CAP21 ) , one of the four `` green '' parties in France . Founded in 1990 by Brice Lalonde , Environment Minister , upon the suggestion of President François Mitterrand , it describes itself as a club with cross - party alliances of green - minded politicians and public servants . It moved away from the `` presidential majority '' in 1992 , when Brice Lalonde left the cabinet . The party , in alliance with The Greens obtained about 14 % of the vote in the French regional elections , 1992 ; but the 1993 legislative election was disappointing for the Green - GE alliance , as it failed to win any seats and won only 7 % ( other ecologist parties brought the score up to 11 % ) , when polls had given them up to 16 % . Noël Mamère was the movement ' s vice - president from 1992 to 1994 , when he was excluded from the party and founded the ___MASK22___ - Solidarity Convergence , which later joined The Greens . Unlike many green parties , which are traditionally associated with the left - wing , Génération Écologie presents itself as a centre - ___MASK53___ ecologist party , despite its early allegiance with the Socialist Party . Nicknamed ' The Blues , ' after the traditional colour of conservatism , it has been associated with the conservative UMP since 2002 , although the links between the two parties grew more tenuous after the French regional elections , 2004 . Génération Écologie has cooperated since the 2004 elections with several other movements that share its priorities . It has worked alongside various organisations , most prominently the Federalist Party , the Centre of Handicapped Democrats , and the Vanquish Unemployment Association . France Gamerre replaced Brice Lalonde as leader and she aimed to run in the French presidential election , 2007 . Like her predecessor , she failed to win the 500 endorsements . In the 2009 European Parliament election , the party ran as part of the Independent Ecological Movement which won 3 . 63 % of the vote .