Modern Left

{{Short description|Political party}}

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{{Infobox political party

| name = Modern Left

| colorcode = {{party color|Modern Left}}

| leader = Jean-Marie Bockel

| foundation = 2007

| ideology = Social liberalism{{Citation |url=http://www.challenges.fr/actualites/business/20070926.CHA1001/bockel_cree_la_gauche_moderne_et_sallie_a_lump.html |title=Bockel crée la Gauche moderne et s'allie à l'UMP (Bockel creates the Modern Left and allies with the UMP) |publisher=Challenges.fr (in French) |date=26 Sep 2007 |accessdate=28 June 2011 }}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| headquarters = 10 rue des Haudriettes
75003 Paris

| international =

| website =

| country = France

| native_name = Gauche Moderne

| logo = File:Gauche Moderne Logo.png

| position = Centre

| national = Union of Democrats and Independents

| european =

| europarl = European People's Partyhttp://www.eppgroup.eu/home/docs/eppgroup-members-list-240609.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728015226/http://www.eppgroup.eu/home/docs/eppgroup-members-list-240609.pdf |date=2011-07-28 }} List of members of the EPP group (2009–14)

| colours = Violet

| split = Socialist Party

| seats1_title = Seats in the National Assembly

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|577|hex={{party color|Modern Left}}}}

| seats2_title = Seats in the Senate

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|1|348|hex={{party color|Modern Left}}}}

| seats3_title = Seats in the European Parliament

| seats3 = {{Composition bar|0|74|hex={{party color|Modern Left}}}}

| seats4_title = Seats in the Regional Councils

| seats4 = {{Composition bar|4|1880|hex={{party color|Modern Left}}}}

}}

The Modern Left ({{langx|fr|La Gauche moderne}}, LGM), is a centrist political party in France founded in 2007.

The party was founded following the nomination of the former Socialist Party (PS) Senator and Mayor of Mulhouse, Jean-Marie Bockel to the François Fillon government in May 2007. Along with The Progressives of Éric Besson, the Modern Left represented the left wing of the coalition supporting the then-President Nicolas Sarkozy. The party calls itself social liberal, and supports a social market economy.

In the 2008 local elections, the party obtained around 40 councillors, and Bockel won a narrow re-election in Mulhouse. However, the LGM incumbent in Pau, Yves Uriéta, was defeated. In the 2009 European Parliament election, the party obtained two MEPs on the lists of the Union for a Popular Movement. Both MEPs sat, like all other UMP MEPs, in the European People's Party Group.