The Centrists – New Centre Les Centristes | |
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Leader | Hervé Morin |
Founder | Hervé Morin |
Founded | 29 May 2007 (as New Centre) 11 December 2016 (as The Centrists) |
Split from | Union for French Democracy |
Ideology | |
Political position | Centre-right[3] |
National affiliation | UDI (2012–2017) UDC (2017–present) |
European Parliament group | European People's Party[4] |
Colours | Light blue |
National Assembly | 2 / 577 |
Senate | 8 / 348 |
European Parliament | 0 / 81 |
Presidency of Regional Councils | 1 / 17 |
Presidency of Departmental Councils | 2 / 95 |
Website | |
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The Centrists (French: Les Centristes, LC), known as The Centrists – New Centre (Les Centristes – Nouveau Centre, LC-NC) since 2018, formerly known as New Centre (Nouveau Centre, NC) and European Social Liberal Party (Parti Social Libéral Européen, PSLE), is a centre-right[3] 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 was founded on 29 May 2007 during a press conference[5] and renamed on 11 December 2016.[6]