The Citizenship, Action, Participation for the 21st Century () was a minor green liberal

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, founded by

Corinne Lepage Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage (; born 11 May 1951) is a French environmental lawyer and politician. She served as French Minister of the Environment in the Alain Juppé cabinets 1 and II 1995–1997 and as Member of the European Parliame ...

in 1996 as a political reflection club. It became a political party in June 2000. Lepage was the party's candidate in the 2002 presidential election and obtained 1.88% of the vote. Lepage claimed to stand for an independent and centrist green voice, as opposed to

Noël Mamère Noël Mamère (; born 25 December 1948) is a French journalist and former politician. He was the mayor of Bègles in Gironde from 1989 to 2017, as well as deputy to the French National Assembly for Gironde's 3rd constituency from 1997 to 201 ...

, candidate for the more left-wing

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. The party later refused to join the new centre-right

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(UMP). In 2007, after dropping out of the presidential race, Lepage endorsed

François Bayrou François René Jean Lucien Bayrou (; born 25 May 1951) is a French politician who has served as Prime Minister of France since December 2024. He has presided over the European Democratic Party (EDP) since 2004 and the Democratic Movement (France ...

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candidacy and CAP21 ran around 20 candidates with Bayrou's new

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in the subsequent

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. It failed to have any candidates elected. CAP 21 became an associate party of Bayrou's

MoDem The Democratic Movement (, ; MoDem ) is a centre to centre-right political party in France, whose main ideological trends are liberalism and Christian democracy, and that is characterised by a strong pro-Europeanist stance. MoDem was establis ...

on June 15, 2008. Corinne Lepage became a high-ranking member of the MoDem's leadership, serving as a Vice President. In the

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, Corinne Lepage was elected

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for North-West France as the MoDem's top candidate in the region. However, the party split from the MoDem in the runup to the 2010 regional elections and pursued an alliance with

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. Cap 21 was allied with Europe Écologie in

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and

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and was allied with the MoDem in

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and

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. Following the MoDem's poor result (4.2%) in the regional elections, Lepage announced her resignation from the MoDem and announced that she would propose separation from the MoDem at the party's next congress. Members voted to leave the MoDem in May 2010. Lepage subsequently failed to obtain the 500 endorsements necessary to run in the

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. In May 2013, several leading members from the right of the party departed. Some went on to form New Democratic Ecology (French: Nouvelle écologie démocrate), allied to the

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. On 27 February 2021, after 25 years of existence, Cap21 merges with the

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of Jean-Marc Governatori to form Cap Ecology..

References

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