The Centrist Alliance (french: Alliance centriste) (AC) is a

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. It was founded in June 2009 by Jean Arthuis, a former member of 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) and currently Member of

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, where he also serves as chair of the Committee on Budgets. The party is seen as a successor to Arthuis' Rally the Centrists (''Rassembler les centristes'') political association, whose main tenet was to re-create the UDF which was dissolved upon creation of the

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and the

New Centre The Centrists (french: Les Centristes, LC), formerly known as New Centre (''Nouveau Centre'', NC) and European Social Liberal Party (''Parti Social Libéral Européen'', PSLE), is a centre-right political party in France formed by the members of ...

Elected officials

*Members of the European parliament: Jean Arthuis *Deputies:

Thierry Benoit Thierry Benoit (born 13 September 1966 in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a French politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since 2007. He represents the Il ...

, Philippe Folliot *Senators: Muguette Dini, Yves Détraigne, Françoise Férat, Adrien Giraud, Joseph Kergueris, Jean-Claude Merceron, Anne-Marie Payet, Daniel Soulage, François Zocchetto.List of AC parliamentarians on the Champagne-Ardenne federation website
In addition, Kergueris is President of the General Council of

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. Thierry Benoit is general councillor in

Ille-et-Vilaine Ille-et-Vilaine (; br, Il-ha-Gwilen) is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named after the two rivers of the Ille and the Vilaine. It had a population of 1,079,498 in 2019.

Leadership

* President: Jean Arthuis (2009–2016)
Philippe Folliot (2016–present)

Footnotes

External links

*
Centrist Alliance official website
{{French political parties Political parties in France Centrist parties in France Pro-European political parties in France Union for French Democracy breakaway groups