For now, the new party is little more than a parliamentary faction.
A party had to win at least 5% of the national vote to form a parliamentary faction.
Each parliamentary faction or group is headed by its leader.
The whips of the parliamentary factions had done their work well.
On May 12, 2010 the parliamentary faction officially went into opposition.
By mid-1994 the party controlled a parliamentary faction of 25 deputies.
In January 2007, a new parliamentary faction announced its formation.
The Government and four parliamentary factions agreed to end the monopoly after months of negotiations.
On 12 December 2012 the party formed a parliamentary faction of 210 deputies.
Ultra-royalist, a French parliamentary faction in the early 19th century.