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Citizen and Republican Movement


Party Name	Citizen and Republican Movement
Native Name	Mouvement républicain et citoyen
Party Wikicolourid	MRC
Leader	Jean-Luc Laurent
Foundation	1993 (MDC) 2002 (PR) 2003 (MRC)
Ideology	Left-wing populism, Social democracy, Euroscepticism, Souverainism
European	None
International	None
Colours	Red, Blue
Président	Jean-Luc Laurent
Headquarters	9 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière 75009 Paris
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The Citizen and Republican Movement (Mouvement républicain et citoyen) is a political party in France. The party replaced, in 2002, the Citizens' Movement founded by Jean-Pierre Chevènement, who left the Socialist Party (PS) in 1993 due to his opposition to the Persian Gulf War and to the Maastricht Treaty. It is an euro-sceptic party with leftist aspirations.

Chevènement led the list l'autre politique (the Other policy) for 1994 European Parliament election. It included members of left-wing opposition (socialist and communist candidates) to Maastricht treaty, feminists, radicals and Gaullists.

The MDC supported the Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin for the 1995 presidential election, then integrated the Gauche plurielle coalition. From 1997 to 2000, it was represented in the government by Chevènement as Interior Minister. In order to prepare the 2002 presidential election, Chevènement created the Pôle républicain, which included a wide range of politicians: radicals, Gaullists, souverainists, socialists. He won over 5% and is sometimes blamed for Jospin's elimination. Its lack of success in the legislative election (losing all 7 MDC deputies elected in 1997) prompted Chevènement to ditch the name and rename his party Citizen and Republican Movement. Chevènement himself was defeated in his stronghold in Territoire-de-Belfort.

The foundation of the MRC meant a realignment to the left. Indeed, the Pôle républicain was supposed to gather "the Republicans of the left and the right".

Chevènement and the MRC supported the Socialist Ségolène Royal's candidacy in the 2007 presidential election, to prevent a new April 21, 2002 shock. The MRC fielded candidates in the French legislative election, 2007, including Chevènement in Territoire-de-Belfort, seat he had lost in 2002 to the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). He himself failed to win back his seat, but a former Gaullist of the left, Christian Hutin was elected in the Nord département.

The party has one Senator, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, who sits in the European Democratic and Social Rally (RDSE) group, which is ironically the most Europhile group. It also has 19 regional councillors and 8 general councillors.

In the 2009 European Parliament election, the party will not run or support any list. Negotiations with the PS and the new Left Front failed.

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A furious effort by Liz Cheney to label seven Justice Department lawyers who previously defended Guantanamo detainees as terrorist sympathizers appears so contrary to the American legal tradition that it puts her at odds with the man responsible for getting her father elected vice president. Back in January 2007, Ted Olson -- then a lawyer in private practice but previously a lead counsel in Bush v. Gore and solicitor general of the United States -- co-authored a short article for Legal Times in which he called efforts to demonize detainee defense lawyers as antithetical to American values. "The ethos of the bar is built on the idea that lawyers will represent both the popular and the unpopular, so that everyone has access to justice. Despite the horrible Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, this is still proudly held as a basic tenet of our profession," Olson wrote. "When government officials are called 'war criminals' and when public-interest lawyers are called 'terrorist huggers,' it not only cheapens the discourse, it scrambles the dialogue. The best solutions to these difficult problems will emerge only when the best advocates, backed by weighty resources, bring their talents to bear. And the heavy work of creating solutions for these complicated issues can only move forward when the name-calling ceases." Olson co-bylined the piece with Neal Katyal, now the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and himself a defender of Gitmo detainees' rights. Katyal won a key <b>...</b>

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Political parties in France FR

Political parties represented in the National Assembly of France (577) Seats.		Union for a Popular Movement (313) - Socialist Party (186) - New Centre (22) - Radical Party¹(18) - French Communist Party (17) - Radical Party of the Left (8) - The Greens (3) - Democratic Movement (3) - Left Party (3) - Movement for France (2) - Arise the Republic (2) - National Centre of Independents and Peasants (2) - Citizen and Republican Movement (1)
Political parties represented in the Senate of France (343) Seats.		Union for a Popular Movement (151) - Socialist Party (111) - French Communist Party (22) - New Centre (11) - Radical Party of the Left (10) - Democratic Movement (7) - Radical Party¹(6) - The Greens (5) - Left Party (2) - Citizen and Republican Movement (1) - Modern Left (1) - National Centre of Independents and Peasants (1) - Rally for France¹(1)
Political parties represented in the European Parliament (74) seats.		Union for a Popular Movement (24) - Socialist Party (14) - The Greens (14) - Democratic Movement (6) - Radical Party (4) - New Centre (3) - French Communist Party (3) - National Front (3) - Modern Left (2) - Left Party (1) - Movement for France (1) - Citizenship, Action, Participation for the 21st Century² (1)
Political parties not represented in the Parliament of France.		Christian Democratic Party¹ - The Progressives¹ - Ecology Generation � Independent Ecological Movement - New Anticapitalist Party � Workers' Struggle � Independent Workers' Party � Unitarian Left - Savoy Region Movement - Ligue Savoisienne - Occitan Party Breton Democratic Union - Breton Party - Alsace d'abord - Abertzaleen Batasuna - Republican Left of Catalonia - Party of the Corsican Nation
Notes:^{1 and 2}Numbers denote party affiliations, 1 is for parties linked to the Union for a Popular Movement, 2 is for parties linked to the Democratic Movement.

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