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Centrist Party (other)
Centrist Party may refer to: Active parties * Centrist Alliance, French political party * Centrists for Europe, Italian political party * Centrists for Sicily, Italian political party * Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines * Centrist Democratic Party (Rwanda) * The Centrists, French political party Historical parties * Centrist Democrats, a defunct Austrian political party * Centrists of Catalonia * Union of the Centrist Center, a small political party in Chile from 1990 to 2002 Factions, Caucuses and Movements * Centrist camp, a Hong Kong's moderate political alignment * Centrist Union group, a French Senate caucus * New Democrats, also known as Centrist Democrats or Clinton Democrats * Unite America, grassroots organization formerly known as The Centrist Project See also * Centrism Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum. It is associated with moderate po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrist Alliance
The Centrist Alliance () (AC) is a centrist political party in France. It was founded in June 2009 by Jean Arthuis, a former member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) and currently Member of European Parliament, 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; its main tenet was to re-create the UDF, which was dissolved upon creation of the MoDem and the New Centre. Elected officials *Members of the European parliament: Jean Arthuis *Deputies: Thierry Benoit, Philippe Folliot *Senators: Muguette Dini, Yves Détraigne, Françoise Férat, Adrien Giraud, Joseph Kergueris, Jean-Claude Merceron, Anne-Marie Payet, Daniel Soulage, François Zocchetto. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrist Camp
The centrist camp, also known as the moderate camp or moderate groups, is Hong Kong's moderate political alignment. Although they are not actively pro-government at the level of the pro-Beijing camp, the centrist camp interacts with the mainland Chinese government. For example, Ronny Tong of Path of Democracy entered the Executive Council of Hong Kong, Chow Yick Hay (周奕希) of Third Side is a Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference member based on Zhaoqing and vice-chairman of the Kwai Tsing District Council. This is in contrast to the pro-democracy camp, which doesn't interact with the mainland government at all. History A 2015 poll by The University of Hong Kong found that 41.9% of Hong Kong's population are centrists, 28.4% of pro-democracy camp supporters, and 11.4% of pro-Beijing camp supporters. Christine Fong and Wong Sing-chi, classified as centrist in the 2016 New Territories East by-election, lost to Alvin Yeung, classified as pro-democracy camp. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unite America
Unite America (previously known as The Centrist Project) is an American grassroots organization founded by Charlie Wheelan with the goal of reforming the political system and bridging the partisan divide. Unite America supports both electoral political reforms as well as independent-minded candidates. Affiliated politicians include: Former Alaska Governor Bill Walker (American politician), Bill Walker, former Iowa state senator David Johnson (Iowa politician), David Johnson, Greg Orman, and Evan McMullin. History Author and educator Charles Wheelan published The Centrist Manifesto' in 2013, inspired by the failed bipartisan efforts surrounding the Simpson-Bowles Commission in 2011. In the book, he outlines an approach to government in which a "Centrist Party" challenges partisanship by controlling the swing vote and facilitating compromise between Democrats and Republicans. Putting ideas into practice, Wheelan worked with business, political, and academic leaders from across t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is a Centre-left politics, center-left political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Major party, major parties of the U.S., it was founded in 1828, making it the world's oldest active political party. Its main rival since the 1850s has been the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, and the two have since dominated American politics. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 from remnants of the Democratic-Republican Party. Senator Martin Van Buren played the central role in building the coalition of state organizations which formed the new party as a vehicle to help elect Andrew Jackson as president that year. It initially supported Jacksonian democracy, agrarianism, and Manifest destiny, geographical expansionism, while opposing Bank War, a national bank and high Tariff, tariffs. Democrats won six of the eight presidential elections from 1828 to 1856, losing twice to the Whig Party (United States) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. Clinton, whose policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy, became known as a New Democrats (United States), New Democrat. Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton graduated from Georgetown University in 1968, and later from Yale Law School, where he met his future wife, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham. After graduating from law school, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as state attorney general, followed by Governorships of Bill Clinton, two non-consecutive tenures as Arkansas governor. As governor, he overhauled the state's education system and served as Chai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Democrats (United States)
New Democrats, also known as centrist Democrats, Clinton Democrats, or moderate Democrats, are a centrist ideological faction within the Democratic Party in the United States. As the Third Way faction of the party, they are seen as culturally liberal on social issues while being moderate or fiscally conservative on economic issues. New Democrats dominated the party from the late 1980s through the early-2010s, and continue to be a large coalition in the modern Democratic Party. With the rise of progressivism in 2016 and 2020, and that of the right-wing populism of Donald Trump, New Democrats began to change and update their ideological positions. Debates over tax cuts on capital gains have been reconfigured to removing caps on state and local tax deduction (SALT). Despite expansion of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), even with stricter criteria for CPC representation in Congress, the New Democrats' Progressive Policy Institute (established in 1989) persists in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrist Union Group
The Centrist Union (, abbreviated UC) is a centrist parliamentary group in the Senate uniting members of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) and Democratic Movement (MoDem), as well as the Centrist Alliance (AC), a former component of the UDI. The group was historically associated with the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) and later the Democratic Centre (CD), Centre of Social Democrats (CDS), and Union for French Democracy (UDF). Most recently, from 2012 to 2017, it was known as the Union of Democrats and Independents – UC group (, abbreviated UDI–UC). History In the first election of the Council of the Republic of the Fourth Republic, the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) group (''groupe du Mouvement républicain populaire'') obtained 76 seats, a quarter of the upper chamber, following senatorial elections on 8 December 1946. During the debate on the existence of the upper chamber, the MRP advocated for a bicameral system in which both the roles and mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moderate
Moderate is an ideological category which entails centrist views on a liberal-conservative spectrum. It may also designate a rejection of radical or extreme views, especially in regard to politics and religion. Political position Canada At the federal level in Canada as of 2024, there are five active political parties who have seats in the House of Commons, for which most of them have a wide range of goals and political opinions, that differ between each others. Per definition, where "political moderate" is used, in a specific context to being far conservative, the Conservative Party of Canada could be used as a representation. However, we can now see that those beliefs might contain "inverted" or different effects-opinions. If we could measure them from a "political spectrum" point of view, the variations for instance, conservatism, who tend to be defined in the same way toward being resistant with the idea of future changes, is not always the case. In parallel, liber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of The Centrist Center
The Union of the Centrist Center (, UCC) — named Progressive Union of the Centrist Center (, UCCP) between 1994 and 1998 — was a small Political parties of Chile, political party in Chile. The party was founded by supermarket tycoon Francisco Javier Errázuriz Talavera, Francisco Javier Errázuriz to support his candidacy in the 1989 Chilean presidential election, 1989 presidential elections. Errázuriz claimed that he was the only true centrist candidate, although his political ideology was slightly center-right. Errázuriz won 15.05% of the vote, but achieved little politically except to take votes from the right-wing candidate, Hernán Büchi. The UCC then joined the right-wing alliance Union for Progress (''Unión por el Progreso'', later the Alliance for Chile). Due to disagreements between the UCC and the National Renewal (Chile), National Renewal, one of the members of the Union for Progress, the UCC broke with the alliance on 1995 and presented their own candidate, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrists For Europe
Centrists for Europe (; CpE) is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy. The party was launched, as Centrists for Italy (; CpI), by splinters from the Union of the Centre in December 2016 and officially founded, with its final name, in February 2017. Pier Ferdinando Casini is the incumbent leader of the party. History In the run-up of the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum, the Union of the Centre (UdC) chose to campaign for "No", while the New Centre-Right, the UdC's counterpart in Popular Area (AP), was among the keenest supporters of "Yes". After the referendum, which saw a huge defeat of the "Yes" side, the UdC left AP altogether. However, some UdC splinters, notably including Pier Ferdinando Casini, Gianpiero D'Alia (who had previously launched Centrists for Sicily) and minister Gian Luca Galletti, launched "Centrists for Italy" and confirmed their alliance with the NCD within Popular Area. The party was officially founded, with the current name, in Februar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrists Of Catalonia
Centrists of Catalonia (, , CC–UCD) was a Catalonia, Catalan-based electoral alliance formed in June 1978 ahead of the 1979 Spanish local elections, upcoming local and 1979 Spanish general election, general elections, comprising the Catalan section of the Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain), Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), the Union of the Centre of Catalonia (UCC) and the Democratic Union–Broad Centre (UDCA). The alliance was maintained after the election, with UCD and UDCA agreeing to transform it into a full-fledged political party in December 1979 with the disagreement of the UCC, which chose not to join the new party. At its foundation congress held on 22 December 1979, Antón Cañellas was elected as new party president. History Origins and establishment Centrists of Catalonia had its roots in the relative success achieved by Prime Minister of Spain, Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez-supported Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain), Union of the Democratic Centre (UD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrist Democrats
The Centrist Democrats () was a political party in Austria. History The only election contested by the party was the 1919 Constitutional Assembly elections,Dieter Nohlen Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An ex ... & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p201 in which it received 1.6% of the national vote and won a single seat.Nohlen & Stöver, p208 References {{Austrian political parties Defunct political parties in Austria Defunct liberal political parties in Austria Political parties with year of disestablishment missing Political parties with year of establishment missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
