Union des democrates et indépendants

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Union des démocrates et indépendants
Union of Democrats and Independents
Logo UDI 2019.png
Jean-Christophe Lagarde (2015)
Party leader Jean-Christophe Lagarde
Secretary General Brigitte Fouré , Michel Zumkeller
vice-chairman Sophie Auconie , Jean-Marie Bockel , Yannick Favennec , Louis Giscard d'Estaing , Yves Jégo , Valérie Létard , Catherine Morin-Desailly , Bertrand Pancher , Arnaud Richard , François Sauvadet
founding September 18, 2012
Place of foundation Paris
Headquarters 22 bis, rue des Volontaires
75015 Paris
Alignment Centrism ,
Liberalism ,
Christian Democracy ,
European Federalism
Colours) Violet, light blue
National Assembly 2017
18/577
senate 2017
49/348
Number of members 4000 (2017)
MEPs
0/79
European party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
EP Group Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (2014-19)
Website www.parti-udi.fr

The Union des démocrates et indépendants is a party alliance that was created in France in 2012 . It is assigned to the political center or the center-right camp and represents centrist, liberal, Christian-democratic and pro-European political positions.

Emergence

The party originated from an electoral alliance for the 2012 parliamentary elections , when the defeat of the governing parties in the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy and the electoral victory of the political left under François Hollande became foreseeable. Members of the bourgeois camp who no longer agreed with the course of the UMP under Sarkozy, who had led the party far to the right in the election campaign by emphasizing the issues of immigration, internal security and national identity, then formed a joint parliamentary group.

The UDI was described by various observers as the reincarnation of the bourgeois center alliance Union pour la démocratie française (UDF), which was founded in 1978 and dissolved in 2007 , because the UDI unites similar political currents and occupies a comparable position in the political spectrum as the UDF once did. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , the only former president from the ranks of the UDF, sent a video message to the founding congress of the UDI, in which he recalled the founding and successes of the UDF and wished the new formation “good luck”.

Member parties

UDI representatives Jean-Louis Borloo , Olivier Richefou and Jean Arthuis (from left to right), 2014

The UDI unites the following parties, which are still formally independent:

Associate members:

Former members:

  • Alliance centriste (AC) by Philippe Folliot . This formation was expelled from the UDI on March 25, 2017 for supporting Emmanuel Macron's presidential candidacy. Most of the AC MPs decided to remain in the UDI.
  • Center national des indépendants et paysans (CNIP) by Bruno North, left the UDI in 2013.
  • Parti radical (PRad) by Laurent Hénart : The Parti radical valoisien is a successor to the party of the same name , which as the party of the liberal bourgeoisie was the dominant party of the French Third Republic before it was crushed between the two big blocs in the 1960s and itself split into the left-liberal Parti radical de gauche and the Parti radical valoisien . This split was overcome again in 2017. The Mouvement radical that emerged from the reunification of the two radical parties no longer belongs to the UDI. Some of the members of the PRad did not take part in the merger and instead remained in the UDI.
  • Les Centristes (LC) formerly Nouveau Center (NC) by Hervé Morin : The Nouveau Center was formed in 2007 from those representatives of the centrist-liberal UDF who supported Sarkozy's presidency. As a result, there are many former ministers in the Sarkozy government among the party’s members. On December 11, 2016, the party was renamed Les Centristes. In December 2017, the party broke away from the UDI. However, some of their MPs decided to remain in the UDI.
  • Parti libéral-démocrate (PLD) by Aurélien Véron, was a member of the UDI for only a few months in 2013.
  • GayLib by Catherine Michaud, was associated with the UDI from 2013 to 2018.

Individual members:

In October 2014 there were over 9,000 individuals who were not members of one of the member parties but were directly members of the UDI. Prominent individual members are Laurent Degallaix (MP and Mayor of Valenciennes , member of PRad until 2017), Yannick Favennec (MP, member of AC until 2017), Brigitte Fouré (Mayor of Amiens , Secretary General of UDI, member of LC until 2017), Louis Giscard d'Estaing (former UMP MP, son of former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing), Yves Jégo (Vice-President of the National Assembly, Deputy Chairman of the UDI, member of the PRad until 2017), Maurice Leroy (Member, Spokesman for the UDI, member of the NC until 2012) and François Zocchetto (Mayor of Laval and former senator, member of the AC until 2017).

elections

In the local elections in March 2014, the UDI received 2.33% of the vote in France in the first round. She received 5,373 of the 36,681 municipal mandates.

In the 2014 European elections , the UDI ran on a joint list with the centrist Mouvement démocrate (MoDem) under the name Les Européens - l'Alternative . The list reached 9.9% and seven seats - four fewer than the 2009 MoDem alone.

In the departmental elections in March 2015, UDI candidates received 1.3% of the vote. However, the UDI was able to win 364 of the 4,108 seats. In the regional elections in December 2015 , the UDI ran on joint lists with Republicans (LR), MoDem and other center-right parties. She reached 199 of the 1,753 seats in the regional councils. In addition, with Hervé Morin , it provides the President of the Normandy Regional Council .

In the 2017 presidential election , members of the UDI declined to participate in the Republican (LR) area code . The UDI chairman Jean-Christophe Lagarde supported the ultimately failed candidacy of Alain Juppé in the primary. He initially supported the LR presidential candidate François Fillon , but withdrew his support because of the Penelope affair .

For the 2019 European elections , the UDI ran its own list and Jean-Christophe Lagarde was the top candidate. It received 2.5% of the vote and thus lost its representation in the European Parliament.

International connections

After the UDI in the European elections in 2014 by a joint list with the démocrate Mouvement (MoDem) in the European Parliament was fed, she joined the MoDem-dominated European Democratic Party (EDP) to. The MEPs joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group at. In 2016 the UDI switched from the EDP to the ALDE party .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La très instructive publication des comptes 2017 des partis politiques par la CNCCFP January 25, 2019
  2. ↑ Alba Ventura: "Les Carnets d'Alba": l'UDF n'est plus, vive l'UDI! RTL, September 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ Christophe Forcari: Pour lancer l'UDI, Borloo déterre l'UDF. In: La Liberation , October 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ UDF, MoDem, UDI ... L'interminable recomposition du center. In: C Politique on France 5 , December 9, 2012.
  5. ^ Ivan Valerio: Video: la bénédiction de Valéry Giscard d'Estaing à l'UDI de Jean-Louis Borloo. In: Le Lab politique , Europe 1, October 26, 2012.
  6. ↑ http://www.europe1.fr/politique/presidentielle-ludi-excommunie-lalliance-centriste-pour-son-ralliement-a-emmanuel-macron-3195287
  7. ↑ http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Municipales/elecresult__MN2014/(path)/MN2014/FE.html
  8. ↑ http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Departementales/elecresult__departementales-2015/(path)/departementales-2015//FE.html
  9. ↑ http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/elections/plantage-de-juppe-lachage-de-lagarde-la-journee-cauchemardesque-de-fillon_1884650.html
  10. ↑ http://www.lemonde.fr/affaire-penelope-fillon/article/2017/03/03/les-centristes-de-l-udi-retirent-leur-soutien-a-francois-fillon_5089087_5070021.html