The Alternative (France)

The Alternative
L'Alternative
Founded5 November 2013
Preceded byUnion of Democrats and Independents
Democratic Movement
IdeologyCentrism
Radicalism
Social liberalism
Christian democracy
Pro-Europeanism
European affiliationEuropean Democratic Party
French Assembly
31 / 577
French Senate
42 / 348
European Parliament
8 / 74
Website
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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.