Democratic Convention ( Convention démocrate , CD) is a centrist - liberal political party in France led by Hervé de Charette . It is the continuation of the Popular Party for French Democracy , established in 1995.
5-737: 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 and as a component of the Union for French Democracy (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
10-520: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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 component of the Union for French Democracy in 1978. In July 1995
15-516: 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 Liberal Democracy , including Jean-François Mattei, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique Bussereau. In 2002
20-549: The instruction of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , the founder and president of the UDF, who called to vote for the other Rally for the Republic (RPR) candidate Jacques Chirac . The PPDF was created to organize Giscard d'Estaing's faithfuls within the UDF ( Hervé de Charette , Jean-Pierre Fourcade , Dominique Bussereau , Jean-Pierre Raffarin , Jean-François Mattéi , Pierre Albertini , Jean-François Humbert , Françoise Hostalier , Robert Hersant ). Nevertheless, it could not prevent
25-503: The party finally merged into the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). The group was a faction within the UMP and adopted the new name Democratic Convention . The affiliation with the UMP of President Nicolas Sarkozy continued until 2010. In May–June 2011 the party joined The Alliance , a new centrist coalition led by Jean-Louis Borloo . This article about a political party in France
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