 Responding to the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR, Hue campaigned on broadening the PCF's electoral base.This was part of a larger strategy addressing the PCF's ongoing electoral decline—following the split of the European Communist bloc from the Soviet Union in the 1970s the French Communist Party had entered a period of electoral decline, its electoral vote totals being reduced by half.The Greens, founded in 1984, benefited from the PS crisis at the beginning of the 1990s.