Centre Democracy and Progress (french: Centre démocratie et progrès, CDP) was a

centrist Centrism is a political outlook or position involving acceptance or support of a balance of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy while opposing political changes that would result in a significant shift of society strongly to Left-w ...

and Christian democratic

political party in France This article contains a list of political parties in France. France has a multi-party political system: one in which the number of competing political parties is sufficiently large as to make it almost inevitable that in order to participate in ...

. The party was founded in 1969 by centrists from the Democratic Centre (CD) who supported Gaullist

Georges Pompidou Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou ( , ; 5 July 19112 April 1974) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He previously was Prime Minister of France of President Charles de Gaulle from 1962 to 196 ...

in the 1969 presidential election, and joined the coalition of the cabinet of Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas. Its goal was to influence the governmental policy in a

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and reformist direction. It supported the program of Chaban-Delmas for the advent of a "New Society", where the relations between the social forces were based on dialogue and for a less control of the society by the state. The CDP supported the unsuccessful presidential candidacy of Chaban-Delmas in 1974 presidential election. In the 1973 legislative election, the CDP won 23 seats. In May 1976, CDP merged with the CD to form the Centre of Social Democrats (CDS), which in 1978 joined the

Union for French Democracy The Union for French Democracy (french: Union pour la démocratie française, UDF) was a centre to centre-right political party in France. It was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to ...

(UDF).

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