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The Centrists

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The Centrists (Les Centristes, LC), formerly known as New Centre (Nouveau Centre, NC) and European Social Liberal Party (Parti Social Libéral Européen, PSLE), 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 party foundation was announced on 29 May 2007 during a press conference and renamed on 11 December 2016. [1]

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Agen

The commune of Agen is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

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Amiens

Amiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille.

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André Santini

André Santini (born 20 October 1940 in Paris) is a French politician and current mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine.

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André Villiers

André Villiers (born 13 December 1954) is a French politician representing the Union of Democrats and Independents.

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Blois

Blois is a city and the capital of Loir-et-Cher department in central France, situated on the banks of the lower river Loire between Orléans and Tours.

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Catherine Morin-Desailly

Catherine Morin-Desailly (born 6 July 1960 in Le Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime) is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Seine-Maritime department.

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Côte-d'Or

Côte-d'Or (literally, "golden slope") is a department in the eastern part of France.

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Centre-right politics

Centre-right politics or center-right politics (American English), also referred to as moderate-right politics, are politics that lean to the right of the left–right political spectrum, but are closer to the centre than other right-wing variants.

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Centrism

In politics, centrism—the centre (British English/Canadian English/Australian English) or the center (American English/Philippine English)—is a political outlook or specific position that involves acceptance or support of a balance of a degree of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy, while opposing political changes which would result in a significant shift of society either strongly to the left or the right.

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Centrist Alliance

The Centrist Alliance (Alliance centriste) (AC) is a centrist political party in France.

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Charles de Courson

Charles- Amédée de Courson (born 2 April 1952 in Paris - 16th arrondissement) is a member of the National Assembly of France and a former 'rapporteur', and current secretary of its Finance Commission.

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Châtellerault

Châtellerault is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in France.

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Christian Blanc

Christian Blanc (born 17 May 1942 in Talence, Gironde) is a French politician and businessman.

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Christian democracy

Christian democracy is a political ideology that emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching, as well as Neo-Calvinism.

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Claude Biwer

Claude Biwer (born 15 May 1936 in Marville, Meuse) is a former member of the Senate of France, who represented the Meuse department.

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Claude Leteurtre

Claude Leteurtre (born December 30, 1940 in Donville-les-Bains, Manche) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Conservative liberalism

Conservative liberalism is a variant of liberalism, combining liberal values and policies with conservative stances, or simply representing the right-wing of the liberal movement.

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Damien Abad

Damien Abad (born 5 April 1980 in Nîmes, Gard) is a French politician, member of the French National Assembly representing Ain.

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Daniel Dubois

Daniel Dubois (born 5 February 1952) is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France.

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Democratic Movement (France)

The Democratic Movement (Mouvement démocrate; MoDem) is a centrist political party in France that is characterised by a strong pro-European stance.

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Departmental council (France)

The departmental councils (French: conseil départemental) of France are assemblies of the departments, elected by universal suffrage.

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Eure

Eure is a department in the north of France named after the river Eure.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU).

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European Parliament election, 2009 (France)

European elections to elect 72 French Members of the European Parliament were held on Sunday 7 June 2009.

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European Parliament election, 2014 (France)

The 2014 European Parliament election in France for the election of the 8th delegation from France to the European Parliament took place on 24 May 2014 in the overseas territories of France, and on 25 May 2014 in metropolitan France.

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European People's Party group

The European People's Party group (EPP Group) is the political group in the European Parliament consisting of deputies (MEPs) from the member parties of the European People's Party (EPP).

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Fetia Api

The Fetia Api or Nouvelle Étoile (New Star) is a political party in French Polynesia.

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François Bayrou

François Bayrou (born 25 May 1951) is a French centrist politician and the president of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), who was a candidate in the 2002, 2007 and 2012 French presidential elections.

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François Fillon

François Charles Armand Fillon (born 4 March 1954) is a retired French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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François Mitterrand

François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French statesman who was President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest time in office of any French president.

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François Rochebloine

François Rochebloine (born October 31, 1945 in Saint-Chamond, Loire) is a former member of the National Assembly of France.

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François Sauvadet

François Sauvadet (born 20 April 1953) in Dijon is a French centrist politician from Burgundy.

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Francis Hillmeyer

Francis Hillmeyer (born September 9, 1946 in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Francis Vercamer

Francis Vercamer (born May 10, 1958 in Lille, Nord) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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French cantonal elections, 2008

Cantonal elections to elect half the membership of the general councils of France's 100 departments were held on 9 and 16 March 2008.

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French legislative election, 2007

The French legislative elections took place on 10 June and 17 June 2007 to elect the 13th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, a few weeks after the French presidential election run-off on 6 May.

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French legislative election, 2012

Legislative elections took place on 10 and 17 June 2012 (and on other dates for small numbers of voters outside metropolitan France) to select the members of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic – a little over a month after the French presidential election run-off held on 6 May.

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French municipal elections, 2008

The French municipal elections of 2008 were held on 9 March in that year (with a second round of voting taking place, where necessary, one week later on 16 March) to elect the municipal councils of France's 36,782 communes.

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French Polynesia

French Polynesia (Polynésie française; Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas collectivity of the French Republic; collectivité d'outre-mer de la République française (COM), sometimes unofficially referred to as an overseas country; pays d'outre-mer (POM).

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French presidential election, 1981

The French presidential election of 1981 took place on 10 May 1981, giving the presidency of France to François Mitterrand, the first Socialist president of the Fifth Republic.

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Gaullism

Gaullism (Gaullisme) is a French political stance based on the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader General Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic.

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Government debt

Government debt (also known as public interest, public debt, national debt and sovereign debt) is the debt owed by a government.

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Greenhouse gas

A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.

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Hervé de Charette

Hervé de Charette (born 30 July 1938 in Paris) is a French centrist politician.

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Hervé Maurey

Hervé Maurey (born 7 May 1961) is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Eure department.

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Hervé Morin

Hervé Morin (born 17 August 1961) is a French politician, currently the President of Normandy.

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Jean Boyer (politician)

Jean Boyer (born January 4, 1937) was a member of the Senate of France.

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Jean Dionis du Séjour

Jean Dionis du Séjour (born 21 September 1956, in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne), is a French politician from the former centrist UDF party.

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Jean-Christophe Lagarde

Jean-Christophe Lagarde (born 24 October 1967 in Châtellerault) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Jean-Jacques Pignard

Jean-Jacques Pignard (born April 1947 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône) is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France.

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Jean-Léonce Dupont

Jean-Léonce Dupont (born 31 January 1955) is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France.

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Jean-Luc Préel

Jean-Luc Préel (30 October 1940 – 3 September 2015) was a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Jean-Marie Cavada

Jean-Marie Cavada (born 24 February 1940 in Épinal, Vosges) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Ile de France.

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Jean-Paul Amoudry

Jean-Paul Amoudry (born 30 March 1950) is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Haute-Savoie department.

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Jean-Pierre Abelin

Jean-Pierre Abelin (born September 3, 1950 in Poitiers, Vienne) is a French politician.

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L'Obs

L’Obs, previously known as Le Nouvel Observateur (1964–2014), is a weekly French news magazine.

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Laissez-faire

Laissez-faire (from) is an economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government intervention such as regulation, privileges, tariffs and subsidies.

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List of political parties in France

France has a multi-party political system: one in which the number of competing political parties is sufficiently large as to make it almost inevitable that in order to participate in the exercise of power any single party must be prepared to negotiate with one or more others with a view to forming electoral alliances and/or coalition agreements.

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Loir-et-Cher

Loir-et-Cher is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region, France.

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Maurice Leroy

Maurice Leroy (born February 2, 1959 in Paris) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Mayotte

Mayotte (Mayotte,; Shimaore: Maore,; Mahori) is an insular department and region of France officially named the Department of Mayotte (French: Département de Mayotte).

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Michel Hunault

Michel Hunault (born February 14, 1960) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Mixed-member proportional representation

Mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation is a mixed electoral system in which voters get two votes: one to decide the representative for their single-seat constituency, and one for a political party.

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National Assembly (France)

The National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (Sénat).

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Nîmes

Nîmes (Provençal Occitan: Nimes) is a city in the Occitanie region of southern France.

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Nicolas Perruchot

Nicolas Perruchot (born July 9, 1966) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa KOGF GCB (born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 16 May 2007 until 15 May 2012.

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Olivier Jardé

Olivier Jardé (born March 28, 1953 in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Payroll tax

Payroll taxes are taxes imposed on employers or employees, and are usually calculated as a percentage of the salaries that employers pay their staff.

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Philippe Folliot

Philippe Folliot (born July 14, 1963 in Albi, Tarn) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Philippe Vigier

Philippe Vigier (born February 3, 1958 in Valence, Drôme) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Pro-Europeanism

Pro-Europeanism is a political position that favours European integration and membership of the European Union (EU).

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) is transport of passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Radical Party (France)

The Radical Party (Parti radical, also Parti radical valoisien, abbreviated to Rad.) was a liberal and social-liberal political party in France.

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Rally for the Republic

The Rally for the Republic (Rassemblement pour la République; RPR), was a Neo-Gaullist and conservative political party in France.

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Regional council (France)

A regional council (conseil régional) is the elected assembly of a region of France.

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Rhône

The Rhône (Le Rhône; Rhone; Walliser German: Rotten; Rodano; Rôno; Ròse) is one of the major rivers of Europe and has twice the average discharge of the Loire (which is the longest French river), rising in the Rhône Glacier in the Swiss Alps at the far eastern end of the Swiss canton of Valais, passing through Lake Geneva and running through southeastern France.

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Rudy Salles

Rudy Salles (born July 30, 1954 in Nice) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Senate (France)

The Senate (Sénat; pronunciation) is the upper house of the French Parliament, presided over by a president.

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Small Business Administration

The Small Business Administration (SBA) is a United States government agency that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses.

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Social market economy

The social market economy (SOME; soziale Marktwirtschaft), also called Rhine capitalism, is a socioeconomic model combining a free market capitalist economic system alongside social policies which establish both fair competition within the market and a welfare state.

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Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

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Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste, PS) is a social-democratic political party in France, and the largest party of the French centre-left.

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Somme (department)

Somme is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river.

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Sophie Auconie

Sophie Briard-Auconie (born 19 August 1963 in Dugny) is a French politician, currently elected to the National Assembly representing Indre-et-Loire's 3rd constituency as a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents.

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Stéphane Demilly

Stéphane Demilly (born 26 June 1963 in Albert, Somme) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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The Alliance (France)

The Alliance (L'Alliance) or Republican, Ecologist and Social Alliance (L'Alliance républicaine, écologique et sociale, ARES), often referred as "Confederation of the Centres" (Confederation des Centres), was a centrist, liberal, ecologist, and social-liberal coalition of political parties in France.

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Thierry Benoit

Thierry Benoit (born 13 September 1966 in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Union for a Popular Movement

The Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un mouvement populaire; UMP) was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Socialist Party (PS).

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Union for French Democracy

The Union for French Democracy (Union pour la Démocratie Française, UDF) was a centre-right political party in France.

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Union of Democrats and Independents

The Union of Democrats and Independents (Union des démocrates et indépendants, UDI) is a centrist political party in France founded on 18 September 2012 on the basis of the parliamentary group of the same name in the National Assembly.

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Valérie Létard

Valérie Létard (born October 13, 1962 in Orchies, Nord) is the former Secretary of State for Solidarity in the government of François Fillon from June 2007 to 14 November 2010.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing (born 2 February 1926), also known as Giscard or VGE, is a French author and elder statesman who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981 and is now a member of the Constitutional Council.

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Welfare

Welfare is a government support for the citizens and residents of society.

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Yvan Lachaud

Yvan Lachaud (born March 4, 1954 in Nîmes, Gard) is a member of the National Assembly of France.

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Yves Pozzo di Borgo

Yves Pozzo di Borgo (born 3 May 1948) is a French politician of Corsican origin.

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35-hour workweek

The 35-hour working week is a measure adopted first in France, in February 2000, under Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's Plural Left government.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Centrists

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