Democratic Force (french: Force Démocrate, FD) was a
centrist
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political party in France
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founded in 1995 by the merger between the centrist components 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 ...
(UDF): the Christian-democratic
Centre of Social Democrats and the
Social Democratic Party
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Active parties
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The party disappeared in 1998, when the UDF confederation became a unified political party. The former leader of Democratic Force,
François Bayrou, became president of this party, and more recently leader of the UDF's successor party, the
Democratic Movement. However, a big chunk of FD's former members have later sided with the
Union of the Popular Movement and
The Republicans, as well as the
Democratic European Force
The Democratic European Force (''Force européenne démocrate'', FED) is a centre-right political party in France founded in July 2012 by Jean-Christophe Lagarde and other dissidents of the New Centre who opposed Hervé Morin's leadership. It i ...
, formed by a splinter group from
New Centre
The Centrists (french: Les Centristes, LC), formerly known as New Centre (''Nouveau Centre'', NC) and European Social Liberal Party (''Parti Social Libéral Européen'', PSLE), is a centre-right political party in France formed by the members of ...
led by
Jean-Christophe Lagarde and later aligned with the
Union of Democrats and Independents
The Union of Democrats and Independents (french: Union des démocrates et indépendants, UDI) is a centre to centre-right political party in France and former electoral alliance founded on 18 September 2012 on the basis of the parliamentary grou ...
, of which Lagarde is the current leader.
Political parties of the French Fifth Republic
1995 establishments in France
Political parties established in 1995
Union for French Democracy breakaway groups
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