Democratic Convention (''Convention démocrate'', CD) is a

centrist Centrism is a political outlook or position involving acceptance or support of a balance of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy while opposing political changes that would result in a significant shift of society strongly to the l ...

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led by

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. It is the continuation of the Popular Party for French Democracy, established in 1995. The Popular Party for French Democracy (''Parti populaire pour la démocratie française'', PPDF) was launched in July 1995, as a successor to the

Perspectives and Realities Clubs The National Federation of Perspectives and Realities Clubs (''Fédération Nationale des Clubs Perspectives et Réalités'', CPR) was a centrist political movement in France. It was founded in May 1965 by Jean-Pierre Fourcade and was a founding co ...

and as a component of the

Union for French Democracy The Union for French Democracy (french: Union pour la démocratie française, UDF) was a centre to centre-right political party in France. It was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to c ...

(UDF) centre-right confederation. Indeed, during the 1995 presidential campaign, the most part of the UDF politicians supported the Neo-Gaullist Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, against the instruction of

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, the founder and president of the UDF, who called to vote for the other

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(RPR) candidate

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. The PPDF was created to organize Giscard d'Estaing's faithfuls within the UDF (

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* 1941 births 2014 deaths French philos ...

, Pierre Albertini,

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Françoise Hostalier Françoise Hostalier (born August 19, 1953 in Beauvais, Oise) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented Nord's 15th constituency from 2002 to 2012. She campaigned for François Fillon in the first round of the 2017 Fre ...

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). Nevertheless, it could not prevent the departure of Giscard d'Estaing from the presidency of the centre-right confederation in 1996. In 1998, the PPDF participated in the transformation of the UDF into the New UDF (from an alliance of parties to a single party), although retaining some of its autonomy and having lost some members to

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, including Jean-François Mattei, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique Bussereau. In 2002 the party finally merged into the

Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, 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 Social ...

(UMP). The group was a faction within the UMP and adopted the new name ''Democratic Convention''. The affiliation with the UMP of President

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continued until 2010. In May–June 2011 the party joined The Alliance, a new centrist coalition led by

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