Democratic and Social Centre (France)
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The Democratic and Social Centre (Centre des démocrates sociaux, CDS) was a French christian-democratic party.
It was founded on 23 May 1976 by the merger of Democratic Centre (founded on 2 February 1966 by Jean Lecanuet and Pierre Abelin, as a scission from the Popular Republican Movement), with former members of the Popular Republican Movement, the National Centre of Independents and Peasants, the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance and Centre Democracy and Progress.
On 1 February 1978, CDS was a founding member of the Union for French Democracy, alongside the Republican Party of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and the Radical Party of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber.
On 25 November 1995, CDS merged with the Social Democratic Party to form Democratic Force, founding component of the New UDF on 16 September 1998.
[edit] Presidents
- Jean Lecanuet (1976-82)
- Pierre Méhaignerie (1982-94)
- François Bayrou (1994-95)
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