New Anticapitalist Party

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New Anticapitalist Party Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste
Abbreviation	NPA
Leader	Collective leadership (Central committee)
Main spokesperson	Christine Poupin [fr][1]
Founded	8 February 2009; 15 years ago (2009-02-08)
Preceded by	Revolutionary Communist League
Headquarters	2, rue Richard-Lenoir 93100 Montreuil
Membership (2018)	2,000[2]
Ideology	Anti-capitalism Alter-globalisation Eco-socialism Euroscepticism[3] Feminism Progressivism Socialism of the 21st century[4]
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	New Popular Front (2024–present)
European affiliation	European Anti-Capitalist Left
International affiliation	Fourth International[5]
Colours	Red
National Assembly	1 / 577
Senate	0 / 343
European Parliament	0 / 72
Regional councils	2 / 1,758
Website
nouveaupartianticapitaliste.org nouveaupartianticapitaliste.fr
Politics of France Political parties Elections Constitution of France Parliament; government; president

The New Anticapitalist Party (French: Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste, [nuvo paʁti ɑ̃tikapitalist], abbreviated NPA, [ɛn pe a]) is a far-left political party in France founded in February 2009. The party launched with 9,200 members and was intended to unify the fractured movements of the French radical Left, and attract new activists drawing on the combined strength of far-left parties in the 2002 presidential elections, where they achieved 10.44% of the vote and 7% in 2007.

The political party is closely associated with postal worker Olivier Besancenot, the main spokesman of the former Trotskyist party, the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), the NPA's main predecessor. In March 2011, Myriam Martin [fr] and Christine Poupin [fr] were elected the main spokespersons of the NPA.^[1] In May 2012, Myriam Martin supported the candidate of the Left Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2012 presidential election instead of the NPA candidate, a worker and union activist at Ford's car plant in Bordeaux, Philippe Poutou, who came eighth in the first round with 411,160 votes, 1.15% of the total votes. She left the NPA in July 2012.