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The Radical-Socialist and Radical Republican Party (PRRRS), better known as the Radical Party, is a liberal political party in France. The Radical-Socialist Party was founded in 1901 as the successor of the Radical Republican faction of the French Third Republic, positioning itself between the conservative-liberal Independent Radicals to the right and the socialist SFIO to the left. The Radical Party represented the anti-clerical segment of peasant and petit-bourgeois voters and were often the largest single party in parliament during the Third Republic, but their ideological stance was pushed to the right due to the rise of new parties on the left, such as the French Communist Party. By the end of World War I, the Radical Party had morphed into a moderate center-left party, and it allied with the SFIO in the "Left Cartel" during the Interwar period. Under Edouard Daladier, the party moved further to the right, repealing the 40-hour work week at the start of World War II, and also supporting anti-communism. The party became one of the important parties of the French Fourth Republic after the war, although the involvement of some of its leaders in granting Philippe Petain emergency powers at the end of the Battle of France led to the party losing some of its credibility and political power. Pierre Mendes France attempted to make the Radicals the party of the mainstream center-left during the 1950s at the expense of the SFIO, but Edgar Faure's conservative-liberal faction resisted these efforts, leading to the fall of Mendes-France's government in 1955 and the Radical Party's shift towards a conservative direction, especially due to the political polarization created by the Algerian War. The party moved back to the center-left during the 1970s before the Radical Party of the Left split from the PRRRS in 1972, and the Radical Party supported Valery Giscard d'Estaing's reforms during the 1970s. During the 2000s, the Radicals began to attract centrist voters from the Gaullist camp, and the party cut its ties with the Union for a Popular Movement in 2011 after nine years of partnership. In 2017, the Radical Party and the PRG merged into the Radical Movement, but the PRG split from the movement in 2019 over its support for Emmanuel Macron's presidency, and the Radical Movement decided to "become again" the Radical Party in 2021.

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