Christian Picquet

[1] Picquet joined the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) in 1968, but left the party in 1971 to join a smaller internationalist communist party.

As a member of the Politburo, he was responsible for the party's relations with other left-wing parties in France, and he developed the LCR's first relations with the larger French Communist Party (PCF).

This faction, known as Unir was a minority faction within the LCR and disappeared with the creation of the New Anticapitalist Party, the LCR's successor party.

In 2009, at the creation of the New Anticapitalist Party, he founded the Unitary Left with a part of Unir minority.

He was selected to be the third candidate on the Left Front's list in the Île-de-France constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections.