Centre of Social Democrats
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Centre of Social Democrats
Centre des démocrates sociaux |
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| President |
Jean Lecanuet (first) François Bayrou (last) |
| Secretary-General |
Jacques Barrot (first) Philippe Douste-Blazy (last) |
| Founded | 23 May 1976 |
| Dissolved | 25 November 1995 |
| Merger of | Democratic Centre, CDP |
| Merged into | Democratic Force |
| Ideology |
Christian democracy Centrism |
| Political position | Centre |
| National affiliation | Union for French Democracy |
| European affiliation | European People's Party |
| International affiliation | Christian Democrat International |
| European Parliament group | European People's Party |
The Centre of Social Democrats (Centre des démocrates sociaux, CDS; also translated as Democratic and Social Centre) was a Christian-democratic and centristpolitical party in France. It existed from 1976 to 1995 and was based directly and indirectly on the tradition of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP). The CDS was one of the co-founding parties of the European People's Party, and later merged into the Democratic Force.
It was founded on 23 May 1976 by the merger of the Democratic Centre, Centre, Democracy and Progress, and former members of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP), the National Centre of Independents and Peasants (CNIP), and the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR).
On 1 February 1978, the CDS was a founding member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), alongside the Republican Party of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and the Radical Party of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. It was the centrist and Christian democratic component of the UDF. Its leader Jean Lecanuet was the first president of the UDF confederation. It supported the UDF candidates in presidential elections: the incumbent president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1981 and the former Prime Minister Raymond Barre in 1988.
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