The Alternative (French: ''L'Alternative'') was an electoral coalition created the fall of 2013 by
Jean-Louis Borloo and
François Bayrou. It reunited the two major French centrists political parties: the
Union of Democrats and Independents and the
Democratic Movement. The Alternative united movements that had formerly been part of the
Union for French Democracy and presented itself in the
municipal elections of 2014 and in the following
European Parliament election.
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Defunct political party alliances in France
Democratic Movement (France)
Union for French Democracy breakaway groups