The Alliance (''L'Alliance'') or Republican, Ecologist and Social Alliance (''L'Alliance républicaine, écologique et sociale'', ARES), often referred as "Confederation of the Centres" (''Confédération des Centres''), 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 the ...

, liberal,

ecologist Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

, and social-liberal coalition of

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. In a government reshuffle in November 2010, Jean-Louis Borloo, minister of Ecology, Energy and Sustainable Development and leader of the Radical Party, and Hervé Morin, minister of Defence and leader of New Centre, were excluded by Prime Minister François Fillon. This led many centrists to distance from President

Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. Born in Paris, he is of Hungarian, Greek Jewish, and French origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Se ...

. On 7 April 2011 Borloo announced the creation of a centrist coalition. On 14–15 May, during a party congress, the Radicals decided to cut their ties with Sarkozy's

Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Soci ...

(UMP), of which they had been an associate party since 2002. The coalition was officially launched during a convention on 26 June 2011. The loose coalition was supplanted in September 2012 by the

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(UDI).

Members

* New Centre (leader: Hervé Morin; ideology:

Centrism 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 the ...

Social liberalism Social liberalism (german: Sozialliberalismus, es, socioliberalismo, nl, Sociaalliberalisme), also known as new liberalism in the United Kingdom, modern liberalism, or simply liberalism in the contemporary United States, left-liberalism ...

; 23 deputies, 10 senators, 3 MEPs) * Radical Party (leader: Jean-Louis Borloo; ideology:

; 20 deputies, 6 senators, 3 MEPs) * Modern Left (leader:

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; ideology:

; 2 senators and 2 MEPs) * Democratic Convention (leader: Hervé de Charette; ideology:

Liberalism Liberalism is a Political philosophy, political and moral philosophy based on the Individual rights, rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostilit ...

; 2 deputies and 1 MEP)

References

{{Reflist Defunct political party alliances in France