Is La France Insoumise left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation La France Insoumise scores −08 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores −07. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is La France Insoumise authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, La France Insoumise scores −01. Advocates a constituent assembly, citizens' initiative referendums and recall of officials; internally leader-centred.

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La France Insoumise

LFI · 2016– · France · Left Populist · Electoral party · coding confidence medium

−08ECcollective

−07CUpluralist

−01AUpluralist

+02SCcentral

−07IDuniversal

+01CHcoercive

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

A sixth republic founded by constituent assembly, wealth redistribution, ecological planning, popular sovereignty against the EU treaties.

Economic model

Price controls on essentials, retirement at sixty, wealth tax, renationalisation of energy and motorways.

Organisation of powers

Advocates a constituent assembly, citizens' initiative referendums and recall of officials; internally leader-centred.

Reading note

Coded as populist on both style and structure while remaining electoral and constitutional in method.

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The evidence for every score

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EC · Economic organisation · scored −08

Coded −8: price controls, renationalisation and wealth taxation.

Programme textProgramme commitments to block prices on essentials, restore the wealth tax and renationalise motorways and energy.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored −07

Coded −7: strongly liberal on migration, secularism and policing.

Programme textProgramme commitments to regularise undocumented workers and to reform police use of force.

AU · Organisation of power · scored −01

Coded −1: a constituent assembly and citizen recall, from a leader-centred organisation.

Programme textProgramme commits to a Sixth Republic drafted by elected constituent assembly and to a citizens' initiative referendum including recall.
Documented act or statuteThe movement has no membership vote on leadership, which holds the score above the Green and Left party values.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +02

Coded +2: national sovereignty with disobedience to EU treaties.

Programme textProgramme commits to disobeying EU fiscal rules where they conflict with the manifesto.

ID · Rule of membership · scored −07

Coded −7: regularisation and voting rights for foreign residents.

Programme textProgramme commits to regularising undocumented workers and to local voting rights for non-citizens.

CH · Method and tempo · scored +01

Coded +1: electoral, with an explicit endorsement of disobedience and street mobilisation.

Programme textProgramme includes a stated right of resistance and has endorsed extra-parliamentary mobilisation against pension reform.

Where it came from, and what came after

takes its doctrine fromLeft Populism
The same theoretical source, applied to French republican material.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

France

Cite this page

Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). La France Insoumise. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/lfi/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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