Nous Citoyens.

About Nous Citoyens

Nous Citoyens is a political party in France founded in July 2013 by entrepreneur Denis Payre. The name of the party was chosen a reference to the phrase "Moi président de la République...", repeated by François Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy in the debate between the two rounds of the 2012 presidential election. The party aims to elect figures from civil society and with business experience in place of the professional political class, supporting liberal and social liberal policies and presenting an "alternative offer to the FN". It claims to go beyond the left-right divide with a program created through "participatory democracy" supportive of globalization and critical of the French labor code. In the 2014 municipal elections, Nous Citoyens offered its support to any candidates committed to "good governance, transparency, and the non-accumulation of mandates", and won a total of 58 seats across 18 communes. In the subsequent European elections, the party solicited applications from its members to join its electoral lists, hoping to be present in all 8 European Parliament constituencies in France. Nous Citoyens ultimately presented lists in 7 constituencies, winning 1.41% of the vote nationally.