page_title: La France Insoumise group
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: La France Insoumise group / History
caption_attribution_description: Conférence de Presse du Groupe France Insoumise à l'Assemblée Nationale
context_page_description: The La France Insoumise group is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of La France Insoumise after the 2017 legislative elections.
context_section_description: In the 2017 legislative elections, la France Insoumise (FI), the movement founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon prior to the presidential election, failed to secure an alliance with the French Communist Party (PCF) permitting common investitures between the two movements. Both subsequently decided to form separate parliamentary groups; Chassaigne, president of the Democratic and Republican Left group (GDR), declared that his deputies would not actively oppose the FI deputies in the National Assembly. Mélenchon's wish to impose voting discipline upon his group and demand that members respect the movement's program L'Avenir en commun ("The common future") proved a barrier to an alliance between the two groups.
  A total of 17 candidates running under the FI label were elected in the second round of the legislative elections, enough for the formation of a parliamentary group. Stéphane Peu, elected under the FI label but a member of the PCF, ultimately chose to remain within the GDR group, while Jean-Hugues Ratenon, who ran under the miscellaneous left label, stated that he intended to sit with the FI group if elected.
  On 27 June, Mélenchon was unanimously voted as the president of the group. At the time of its formation on 27 June, the parliamentary group included 17 deputies.
caption: Eight of the members of the La France Insoumise group behind Mélenchon, 2017
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