As of 2023, the group, which includes representatives of La France Insoumise (FI) and other left-wing parties, has seventy five members.
In the 2017 legislative election, 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.
[1] 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.
[3] Stéphane Peu, elected under the FI label but a member of the PCF,[4] ultimately chose to remain within the GDR group,[5] while Jean-Hugues Ratenon, who ran under the miscellaneous left label,[6] stated that he intended to sit with the FI group if elected.
[10] Executives of the movement include: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Danièle Obono, Mathilde Panot, Bastien Lachaud, Alexis Corbière and Éric Coquerel.