The Union for French Democracy was a centre-right political party in France. The UDF was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over the political right in France. This name was chosen due to the title of Giscard d'Estaing's 1976 book,Démocratie française.
Charles Roger RenéJacques de Gaulle is a French politician. He is the eldest child of Admiral Philippe de Gaulle and grandson of General Charles de Gaulle,and served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP),from 1994 to 2004.
François RenéJean Lucien Bayrou is a French politician who has presided over the Democratic Movement (MoDem) since he founded it in 2007. A centrist,he was a candidate in the 2002,2007 and 2012 presidential elections. He has also presided over the European Democratic Party (EDP) since 2004.
Jean-Louis Cottigny is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party,which is part of the Party of European Socialists,and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Brigitte Douay is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party,which is part of the Party of European Socialists,and sits on the Committee on Budgets.
Marielle de Sarnez was a French politician who served as Secretary of State for European Affairs under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.
Jean-Louis Marie Borloo is a French politician who served as president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) from 2012 to 2014. He also was Minister of the Economy,Finance and Employment in 2007 and Minister of Ecology,Energy,Sustainable Development and the Sea from 2007 until 2010 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Bully-les-Mines is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais département in northern France. It forms part of the Lens-Liévin agglomeration community,which encompasses 36 French communes and 250,000 inhabitants. For many years it was a major coal mining center.
The Democratic Movement is a centre to centre-right political party in France that is characterised by a strong pro-European stance. MoDem was founded by François Bayrou to succeed the Union for French Democracy (UDF) and contest the 2007 legislative election,after his strong showing in the 2007 presidential election. Initially named the Democratic Party,the party was renamed "Democratic Movement",because there was already a small Democratic Party in France. The party holds a pro-Europeanist stance.
The Centrists,known as The Centrists - New Centre since 2018,formerly known as New Centre and European Social Liberal Party,is a centre-right political party in France formed by the members of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) –including 18 of the 29 members of the UDF in the National Assembly) –who did not agree with François Bayrou's decision to found the Democratic Movement (MoDem) and wanted to support the newly elected president Nicolas Sarkozy,continuing the UDF-Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) alliance.
The French municipal elections of 2008 were held on 9 and 16 March to elect the municipal councils of France's 36,782 communes. The first task of each newly constituted municipal council was to elect a mayor.
Françoise Férat is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. She represents the Marne department and is a member of the Centrist Alliance.
Michel Mercier is a French politician and who served as Minister of Justice from 2010 until 2012.
Michel Delebarre was a French politician who was a member of the Senate of France. He represented the Nord department,and was a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche. He was also mayor of Dunkirk.
The Constitutional law on the Modernisation of the Institutions of the Fifth Republic was enacted into French constitutional law by the Parliament of France in July 2008,to reform state institutions.
The Centrist Alliance (AC) is a centrist political party in France.
Rally the Centrists is a French political association founded on July 16,2008 by Jean Arthuis,a centrist Senator of Mayenne. The association unites elected officials and activists of centrist political ideology,most of which used to be members of the Union for French Democracy (UDF). The association's goal is to prepare the creation of a new centrist political party which would unite all the centrist forces,currently divided between parties such as the Democratic Movement,New Centre,Radical Party,Civic Alliance for Democracy in Europe.
The Centrist Union is a centrist parliamentary group in the Senate uniting members of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) and Democratic Movement (MoDem),as well as the Centrist Alliance (AC),a former component of the UDI. The group was historically associated with the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) and later the Democratic Centre (CD),Centre of Social Democrats (CDS),and Union for French Democracy (UDF). Most recently,from 2012 to 2017,it was known as the Union of Democrats and Independents –UC group.
Regional elections were held in France on 14 and 21 March 2010. At stake were the presidencies of each of France's 26 régions,which,though they do not have legislative autonomy,manage sizable budgets.
Legislative elections were held in France on 11 and 18 June 2017 to elect the 577 members of the 15th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They followed the two-round presidential election won by Emmanuel Macron. The centrist party he founded in 2016,La République En Marche! (LREM),led an alliance with the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem);together,the two parties won 350 of the 577 seats—a substantial majority—in the National Assembly,including an outright majority of 308 seats for LREM. The Socialist Party (PS) was reduced to 30 seats and the Republicans (LR) reduced to 112 seats,and both parties' allies also suffered from a marked drop in support;these were the lowest-ever scores for the centre-left and centre-right in the legislative elections. The movement founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon,la France Insoumise (FI),secured 17 seats,enough for a group in the National Assembly. Among other major parties,the French Communist Party (PCF) secured ten and the National Front (FN) obtained eight seats. Both rounds of the legislative election were marked by record low turnout.
