The Centrists
The Centrists – New Centre Les Centristes | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Hervé Morin |
| Founder | Hervé Morin |
| Founded | 29 May 2007 (as New Centre) 11 December 2016 (as The Centrists) |
| Split from | Union for French Democracy |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| National affiliation | UDI (2012–2017) UDC (2017–present) |
| European Parliament group | European People's Party |
| Colours | Light blue |
| National Assembly | 2 / 577 |
| Senate | 8 / 348 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 81 |
| Presidency of Regional Councils | 1 / 17 |
| Presidency of Departmental Councils | 2 / 95 |
| Website | |
| www | |
The Centrists (French: Les Centristes, pronounced [le sɑ̃tʁist], LC), known as The Centrists – New Centre (Les Centristes – Nouveau Centre [le sɑ̃tʁist nuvo sɑ̃tʁ], LC-NC) since 2018, formerly known as New Centre (Nouveau Centre, NC) and European Social Liberal Party (Parti Social Libéral Européen [paʁti sɔsjal libeʁal øʁɔpeɛ̃], PSLE), is a centre-right political party in France formed by the members of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) – including 18 of the 29 members of the UDF in the National Assembly) – who did not agree with François Bayrou's decision to found the Democratic Movement (MoDem) and wanted to support the newly-elected president Nicolas Sarkozy, continuing the UDF–Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) alliance.
The party was founded on 29 May 2007 during a press conference and renamed on 11 December 2016.