La France Insoumise

France Unbowed

*La France Insoumise*
France Unbowed La France Insoumise
Abbreviation	FI, LFI
Coordinator	Manuel Bompard
Founder	Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Founded	10 February 2016
Newspaper	L'Insoumission Hebdo
Membership (2017)	540,000[needs update]
Ideology	Democratic socialism; Anti-neoliberalism; Eco-socialism; Souverainism; Left-wing populism; Soft Euroscepticism;
Political position	Left-wing to far-left
National affiliation	New Popular Front; (since 2024); New Ecological and Social People's Union; (2022–2024);
European affiliation	Party of the European Left (observer); Now the People
European Parliament group	The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
Colours	Purple (official); Red (customary);
National Assembly	71 / 577
Senate	0 / 348
European Parliament (French seats)	9 / 81
Presidencies of departmental councils	0 / 101
Presidencies of regional councils	0 / 17
Website
	lafranceinsoumise.fr
	Politics of France; Political parties; Elections;

La France Insoumise (pronounced [la fʁɑ̃s ɛ̃sumiz], lit. 'France Unbowed',^[a] abbreviated as FI or LFI) is a left-wing to far-left political party in France. It was launched in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former co-president of the Left Party (PG). It aims to implement the eco-socialist and democratic socialist programme L'Avenir en commun (transl. A Shared Future). The party utilises the lower case Greek letter phi as its logotype.

The party nominated Mélenchon as its candidate for the 2017 French presidential election. He came fourth in the first round, receiving 19.6% of the vote and failing to qualify for the second round by around 2%. After the 2017 French legislative election, it formed a parliamentary group of 17 members of the National Assembly, with Mélenchon as the group's president. In the 2019 European Parliament election in France, it won six seats, below its expectations.

In 2022, Mélenchon again became the party's candidate for president, and later Christiane Taubira, winner of the 2022 French People's Primary, endorsed Mélenchon. In the first round of 2022 French presidential election voting in April, Mélenchon came third, garnering 7.7 million votes, narrowly behind second-place finisher Marine Le Pen.
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