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Third Force Troisième Force | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Antoine Pinay (last) |
| Founder | Robert Schuman, Paul Ramadier, and others |
| Founded | 1947 |
| Dissolved | 1958 (official) |
| Preceded by | Tripartisme |
| Political position | Centre |
| Party members | Popular Republican Movement SFIO Radical and Socialist Party UDSR |
The Third Force (French: Troisième Force, [tʁwazjɛm fɔʁs]) was a political alliance during the Fourth Republic (1947–1958) which gathered the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) party, the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR), the Radicals, the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) and other centrist politicians who were opposed to both the French Communist Party (PCF) and the Gaullist movement.[1] The Third Force governed France from 1947 to 1951, succeeding the tripartisme alliance between the SFIO, the MRP and the PCF. The Third Force was also supported by the National Centre of Independents and Peasants (CNIP), which succeeded in having its most popular figure, Antoine Pinay, named Prime Minister in 1952, a year after the dissolving of the Third Force coalition.
- ^ Rioux, Jean-Pierre (2005-01-01), "Les gouvernements de gauche sous la IVe République", Histoire des gauches en France, La Découverte, p. 257, doi:10.3917/dec.becke.2005.02.0255, ISBN 978-2-7071-4737-0, retrieved 2024-02-05