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Union of Democrats and Independents Union des démocrates et indépendants | |
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| Abbreviation | UDI |
| President | Hervé Marseille |
| General Secretary | Brigitte Fouré Michel Zumkeller |
| Spokespersons | Chantal Jouanno Jean-Marie Bockel Laurent Degallaix Daniel Leca |
| Honorary President | Jean-Louis Borloo |
| Founded | 18 September 2012 |
| Split from | Union for a Popular Movement |
| Headquarters | 22 bis, Rue des Volontaires, Paris |
| LGBT wing | GayLib (until 2018) |
| Membership (2017) |  20,000[1] |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre[2] to centre-right[3] |
| National affiliation | Union of the Right and Centre (2012–2024) Ensemble (2024–) |
| European affiliation | European Democratic Party (before 2016) Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (2016–) |
| Colours | Violet Sky blue (customary) |
| National Assembly | 3 / 577 |
| Senate | 26 / 348 |
| European Parliament | 1 / 79 |
| Presidency of Regional Councils | 0 / 17 |
| Presidency of Departmental Councils | 8 / 95 |
| Website | |
| www.parti-udi.fr | |
The Union of Democrats and Independents (French: Union des démocrates et indépendants, pronounced [ynjɔ̃ de demɔkʁat e ɛ̃depɑ̃dɑ̃], UDI) is a liberal[4] political party in France and former electoral alliance founded on 18 September 2012 on the basis of the eponymous parliamentary group in the National Assembly.
The party was composed of separate political parties that retained their legal independence, but were in coalition with the larger right-wing party The Republicans (LR, formerly the Union for a Popular Movement). As most of them have been expelled or left, the Democratic European Force (FED) is the last of the founding parties to remain a participant in the UDI.
The party's current president is Senator Hervé Marseille of the FED, also president of the Centrist Union group in the Senate. He succeeded Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who was elected at the congress of the party on 15 November 2014, following the resignation of Jean-Louis Borloo on 6 April 2014 for health reasons.[5]
The UDI was part of the Ensemble coalition in the 2024 snap legislative election.
- ^ "Lagarde : "sur 20.000 adhérents UDI, 150 jeunes sont partis" chez Macron". Europe 1. 22 January 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- ^ "Appendix A3: Political Parties" (PDF). European Social Survey. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 January 2018.
- ^ Jocelyn Evans; Gilles Ivaldi (2013). The 2012 French Presidential Elections: The Inevitable Alternation. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 182.
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "France". Parties and Elections in Europe.
- ^ "Jean-Christophe Lagarde élu président de l'UDI". Le Monde.fr. 13 November 2014.