What is The Republicans?
[[Image:Les Républicains - logo (France, 2023).svg|right|200px]] '''The Republicans''' ({{lang-fr|Les Républicains}}; '''LR''') is a [[Liberal conservatism|liberal-conservative]] [[list of political parties in France|political party]] in [[France]]. The party was created on 30 May 2015 by renaming the [[Union for a Popular Movement]] (UMP) party, which had been founded in 2002 under the leadership of former [[President of France]] [[Jacques Chirac]].<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/boost-for-sarkozy-as-ump-party-changes-its-name-to-the-republicans-10286171.html|title = Nicolas Sarkozy changes UMP party's name to The Republicans ahead of political comeback|date = 30 May 2015|access-date = 2015-05-30|website = [[The Independent]]|last = Bolton|first = Doug|archive-date = 2015-05-30|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150530140105/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/boost-for-sarkozy-as-ump-party-changes-its-name-to-the-republicans-10286171.html|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/29/us-france-sarkozy-idUSKBN0OE2J120150529 |title=France's UMP party changes name to The Republicans, boosting Sarkozy |agency=Reuters Editorial |date=2015-05-29 |access-date=2015-12-06 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924220219/http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/29/us-france-sarkozy-idUSKBN0OE2J120150529 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The party used to be one of the two [[Major party|major]] political parties in the [[France|French Fifth Republic]] along with the [[Centre-left politics|centre-left]] [[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]] (PS), and, following the [[2017 French legislative election|2017 legislative election]], it remains the second largest party in the [[National Assembly (France)|National Assembly]] (behind [[President of France|President]] [[Emmanuel Macron|Macron]]'s [[La République En Marche!|REM]]), but becomes the fourth in 2022, behind the [[National Rally]], the [[