Les Centristes
| Les Centristes The centrists |
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| Party leader | Hervé Morin |
| Deputy Chairman |
Catherine Morin-Desailly Jean-Léonce Dupont Yvan Lachaud Rudy Salles |
| speaker | Maurice Leroy |
| Treasurer | Charles de Courson |
| founding | May 29, 2007 |
| Place of foundation | Paris |
| Headquarters | Rue de Varenne 88 Paris |
| Youth organization | Jeunes centristes |
| Alignment |
Christian Democracy Pro-Europeanism |
| Colours) | Blue , red |
| National Assembly |
2017 2/577 |
| senate | 2017 8/348 |
| Number of members | 500 (2019) |
| MEPs |
1/79 |
| EP Group | EPP |
| Website | les-centristes.fr |
Les Centristes ( LC, Die Zentristen ) formerly Nouveau Center (NC, New Center), also known as Parti Social Libéral Européen (PSLE, European Social Liberal Party ) are a political party in France . It was formed in 2007 as a spin-off from the Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) after its chairman François Bayrou announced the establishment of a new party, the Mouvement démocrate (MoDem). While MoDem went into opposition to the conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy ( UMP ), the NC supporters wanted to continue the traditional cooperation with the UMP.
Nouveau Center (2007-2016)
While the greater part of the party people and the electorate switched from the UDF to MoDem, a majority of the UDF MPs in the French parliament (18 of 29 members) joined the Nouveau Center in May 2007 . In the elections that took place shortly afterwards, the NC reached 17 of its own MPs and five other MPs via the Majorité Présidentielle list (“presidential majority ”), an electoral alliance with the UMP. The MoDem, which did even better than the NC in the first round of voting, only got three seats due to the majority vote and the lack of partner parties. The NC then formed its own parliamentary group, which grew by another to 23 members in a 2008 by-election.
In the second Cabinet of Prime Minister Francois Fillon three NC members were represented: the defense minister , Herve Morin , the Secretary of State for public services André Santini and the State Secretary for Social Solidarity Valérie Létard . At the first party conference in Nîmes in 2008, Hervé Morin was elected party leader. In the local elections in the same year, the NC was able to hold about the level of mandates it had previously had through the mandates it had taken over from the UDF. In the European elections in France in 2009 , the party initially considered running alone, but eventually joined (like the small LGM party ) on a joint list with the UMP. As a result, the NC won three seats in the European Parliament , where, like the UMP, it joined the Group of the European People's Party (EPP). In the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , on the other hand, the NC representative belongs to the European Democratic Group .
In the Fillon III cabinet , which was formed in November 2010, the NC lost the Ministry of Defense and then only provided the Minister for Urban Development: Maurice Leroy . In June 2011 the Nouveau Center founded the Alliance républicaine, écologiste et sociale (ARES), an association of small groups, together with the Parti radical valoisien by Jean-Louis Borloo , the La Gauche Moderne by Jean-Marie Bockel and the Convention démocrate by Hervé de Charette Middle-class parties previously associated with the conservative UMP. For the 2012 presidential election , Hervé Morin initially considered running as an own candidate for the NC. But he then renounced and the party voted for Sarkozy's re-election.
In the parliamentary elections in June 2012 , the Nouveau Center fell to eight members in the National Assembly and thus lost its parliamentary group status. Instead, its MPs joined the parliamentary group of the Union des démocrates et indépendants (UDI), a new middle-class middle-class alliance that consisted of the parties of the former ARES. Dissatisfied with Morin's leadership, the Force européenne démocrate split off from the Nouveau Center in July 2012 under the leadership of Jean-Christophe Lagarde . After the 2014 European elections , in which the NC participated as part of the UDI and MoDem Alliance , Jean-Marie Cavada was the party's only MEP. He sat in the liberal ALDE faction , but left the NC in September 2014 to join the small party Nous Citoyens .
Les Centristes (since 2016)
On December 11, 2016, the party was renamed Les Centristes . They supported François Fillon from the conservative Les Républicains (successor party to the UMP) in the 2017 presidential election . For the parliamentary election in June 2017 , Les Centristes ran in alliance with Les Républicains and the UDI, but received only six seats. In December 2017, Les Centristes left the UDI alliance because - unlike the majority of the UDI - they wanted to continue working with the conservative Républicains . However, four of the six members of the Centristes (including Maurice Leroy) stayed with the UDI. In October 2018, the two remaining Centristes MPs in the National Assembly moved from the UDI parliamentary group to the Libertés et territoires parliamentary group , of which Philippe Vigier has been co-chair since then. In the 2019 European elections , Les Centristes supported the list of Républicains. Through this, the centrist Nathalie Colin-Oesterlé moved into the European Parliament, where she sits in the Christian Democratic EPP group .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the EDG members on the homepage of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ^ Pour Borloo, "la machine est lancée". In: Le Journal du Dimanche , June 15, 2011.
- ↑ Gaël Vaillant: Après les radicaux, Hervé Morin et ses amis quittent l'UDI. In: Le Journal du Dimanche , December 16, 2017.
- ↑ Politique. Pourquoi les Centristes d'Hervé Morin ont-il quitté l'UDI? In: Ouest France , December 18, 2017.
