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Union of Democrats and Independents Union des démocrates et indépendants | |
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| Abbreviation | UDI |
| President | Jean-Christophe Lagarde |
| 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[2] |
| Political position | Centre[3] to centre-right[4] |
| National affiliation | Union of the Right and Centre (2012–) Together (2024–) |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Colours | Violet Sky blue (customary) |
| National Assembly | 8 / 577 |
| Senate | 26 / 348 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 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, UDI) is a centre to centre-right political party in France and former electoral alliance founded on 18 September 2012 on the basis of the parliamentary group of the same name in the National Assembly. The party was composed of separate political parties who retained their independence, but always in coalition with the biggest right wing party The Republicans. As most of them have been expelled or have left, the Democratic European Force is the last founding party to participate in the UDI.
The party's current president is Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who was elected at the congress of the party on 15 November 2014, after the resignation of Jean-Louis Borloo on 6 April 2014 for health reasons.[5]
- ^ "Lagarde : "sur 20.000 adhérents UDI, 150 jeunes sont partis" chez Macron". Europe 1. 22 January 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "France". Parties and Elections in Europe.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Jean-Christophe Lagarde élu président de l'UDI". Le Monde.fr. 13 November 2014.
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