Gauche démocrate et républicaine
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The Gauche démocrate et républicaine (English: Democratic and Republican Left, GDR) is a French parliamentary group in the 13th Assembly composed of 4 Greens, 15 Communists, 5 affiliated Communists and PCF dissidents, and one Martinican nationalist. Therefore it has a total of 24 members, making it the third largest parliamentary group in this Assembly behind the UMP and Socialist-Radical-and Citizen group. It was formed after the French legislative election, 2007
This is the first time since the 1958-1962 legislature that the Communists have been unable to form an exclusive group of Communist deputies. Such a group requires 20 deputies. The Communists have demanded that the threshold be lowered from 20 to 15 deputies to form a parliamentary group. The threshold had already been lowered in 1988 from 30 to 20.
The leadership of this group should be rotating every 20 months, the current leader is the Communist Jean-Claude Sandrier.
A similar group of leftist parties had been created in 1997, the Radical-Citizen-Green group composed of Left Radicals, MDC, and Green deputies.
