Union of Democrats and Independents
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Union of Democrats and Independents
Union des Démocrates et Indépendants |
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| President | Jean-Christophe Lagarde |
| General Secretary |
Brigitte Fouré, Michel Zumkeller |
| Spokespersons |
Chantal Jouanno, Jean-Marie Bockel |
| Honorary President | Jean-Louis Borloo |
| Founded | September 18, 2012 |
| Headquarters | 22 bis, rue des Volontaires, Paris |
| Ideology | Liberalism Christian democracy European federalism |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Colours | Light blue and violet |
| National Assembly |
28 / 577
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| Senate |
43 / 348
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| European Parliament |
2 / 74
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| Regional Councils |
120 / 1,880
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| Website | |
| www |
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The Union of Democrats and Independents (French: Union des démocrates et indépendants, UDI) is a centre-right political party in France founded on 18 September 2012 on the basis of the parliamentary group of the same name. The party is composed of eight separate political parties who retain their independence. The former UDI's president and leader Jean-Louis Borloo claims to have 50,000 members. The president is Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who was elected at the congress of the party on 15 November 2014, after the resignation of Jean-Louis Borloo on 6 April 2014 for health reasons.
On 9 October 2012, the leaderships of the parties making up the UDI parliamentary group announced the creation of a new political party and set up a temporary office in Paris. On 21 October, a founding assembly was convened at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris, which marked the official foundation of the movement.
Following the congress of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) on 18 November 2012 and the ensuing tensions between the two rival candidates for the party's presidency, a number of leading figures of the UMP announced that they were joining the UDI, including former cabinet minister and deputy Pierre Méhaignerie and Mayenne deputy Yannick Favennec. However, during a legislative by-election on 9 and 16 December 2012 in the Val-de-Marne's 1st constituency, UDI incumbent Henri Plagnol - a former member of the UMP who had joined the UDI in June - was defeated by a right-wing dissident, Sylvain Berrios.
On 9 June 2013, the UDI gained a deputy (Meyer Habib) at the by-election in the Eighth constituency for French residents overseas, but this contribution was cancelled out by Gilles Bourdouleix's resignation from UDI after the controversy for allegedly saying Adolf Hitler had not killed enough Romani people.
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