query: political_ideology ecology generation
supports: Elections to the European Parliament were held in France on 13 June 2004. The opposition Socialist Party made substantial gains, although this was mainly at the expense of minor parties. The governing Union for a Popular Movement and Union for French Democracy also made gains. The Citizenship, Action, Participation for the 21st Century is a minor green liberal political party in France, founded by Corinne Lepage in 1996 as a political reflection club. Brice Lalonde (born 10 February 1946) is a former green party leader in France, who ran for President of France in the Presidential elections, 1981. In 1988 he was named Minister of the Environment, and in 1990 founded the green party Ecology Generation. Ecology Generation ( French : Génération Écologie ) is , together with the Greens ( Les Verts ) , the Independent Ecological Movement ( Mouvement Ecologiste Indépendant ) and Citizenship , Action , Participation for the 21st Century ( CAP21 ) , one of the four `` green '' parties in France . Founded in 1990 by Brice Lalonde , Environment Minister , upon the suggestion of President François Mitterrand , it describes itself as a club with cross-party alliances of green - minded politicians and public servants . It moved away from the `` presidential majority '' in 1992 , when Brice Lalonde left the cabinet . The party , in alliance with The Greens obtained about 14 % of the vote in the French regional elections , 1992 ; but the 1993 legislative election was disappointing for the Green - GE alliance , as it failed to win any seats and won only 7 % ( other ecologist parties brought the score up to 11 % ) , when polls had given them up to 16 % . Noël Mamère was the movement 's vice-president from 1992 to 1994 , when he was excluded from the party and founded the Ecology - Solidarity Convergence , which later joined The Greens . Unlike many green parties , which are traditionally associated with the left - wing , Génération Écologie presents itself as a centre - right ecologist party , despite its early allegiance with the Socialist Party . Nicknamed ' The Blues , ' after the traditional colour of conservatism , it has been associated with the conservative UMP since 2002 , although the links between the two parties grew more tenuous after the French regional elections , 2004 . Génération Écologie has cooperated since the 2004 elections with several other movements that share its priorities . It has worked alongside various organisations , most prominently the Federalist Party , the Centre of Handicapped Democrats , and the Vanquish Unemployment Association . France Gamerre replaced Brice Lalonde as leader and she aimed to run in the French presidential election , 2007 . Like her predecessor , she failed to win the 500 endorsements . In the 2009 European Parliament election , the party ran as part of the Independent Ecological Movement which won 3.63 % of the vote . The Independent Ecological Movement ("Mouvement Ecologiste Indépendant") is a political party in France founded by Antoine Waechter, former presidential candidate of The Greens in 1994. The MEI hoped to replace the Greens as the major green party, but due to the Green's electoral deals with larger parties, it failed to do so. They claim to be purely ecologist, and neither on the left or right. Waechter failed to win enough endorsements to be a candidate in the French presidential election, 1995. The party ran candidates in the 2004 regional elections and in the European Parliament election, 2004 (France) and were able to prevent the Greens from gaining more seats, such as in the Eastern EU parliamentary region where the MEI's 3% were enough to prevent the Greens from taking 2 seats there instead of one. Presidential elections took place in France on 23 April and 7 May 1995, to elect the fifth president of the Fifth Republic.
  The Socialist incumbent president, François Mitterrand, who had been in office since 1981, did not stand for a third term. He was 78, had terminal cancer, and his party had lost the 1993 legislative election in a landslide defeat. Since then, he had been "cohabiting" with a right-wing cabinet led by Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, a member of the neo-Gaullist RPR party. Balladur had promised the RPR leader, Jacques Chirac, that he would not run for the presidency, but as polls showed him doing well and he had the support of many right-wing politicians, he decided to run. The competition within the right between Balladur and Chirac was a major feature of the campaign. A green party is a political party based on the principles of green politics.
candidates: ecology green politics liberal opposition right
answer: green politics