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Lorrain Republican Union
{{Use dmy dates, date=April 2020 The Lorrain Republican Union (french: Union républicaine lorraine, URL) was a Christian democratic party in Moselle (department), Moselle, France during the French Third Republic, Third Republic. Founded in 1919, the URL became the dominant party in Moselle during the Interwar era. In Alsace, the Popular Republican Union (1919–1946), Popular Republican Union (UPR) was considered the URL's sister party. The URL was much more conservative than the Popular Democratic Party (France), Popular Democratic Party (PDP), the main Christian democratic party in the rest of France at the time. The URL was founded in 1919 by former Lorrain members of the Catholic Centre Party (Germany), Zentrum in Alsace-Lorraine, formed since the mid-1890s and being with 31% of the seats the strongest party in the Landtag of the former Alsace-Lorraine, in order to defend Moselle's judicial Local law in Alsace-Moselle, specificity. In the 1919 French legislative election the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic
Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism. It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ideas and traditional Christian values, incorporating social justice and the social teachings espoused by the Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Pentecostal, and other denominational traditions of Christianity in various parts of the world. After World War II, Catholic and Protestant movements of neo-scholasticism and the Social Gospel shaped Christian democracy. On the traditional left-right political spectrum Christian Democracy has been difficult to pinpoint as Christian democrats rejected liberal economics and individualism and advocated state intervention, but simultaneously defended private property rights against excessive state intervention. This has meant that Christian Democracy has historically been considered centre left on ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |