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{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox political party | logo_size = 150 | colorcode = {{party color|Democratic Movement (France)}} | name = Union for French Democracy | native_name = Union pour la démocratie française | abbreviation = UDF | logo = Union for French Democracy logo.png | leader1_title = Leaders | leader1_name = {{ublist | [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]] | [[Raymond Barre]] | [[Jean Lecanuet]] | [[François Léotard]] | [[François Bayrou]] }} | founder = Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | foundation = {{ublist | {{start date|1978|02|01|df=y}} (alliance) | {{start date|1998|11|29|df=y}} (party) }} | dissolution = {{end date|2007|11|30|df=y}}<br>(''de facto''){{efn|MoDem assumed UDF's political activity on 1 December 2007 and the latter is no longer active, but its brand remains in the electoral register and the party has not been legally dissolved.}} | merger = {{ublist | [[Democratic Force (France)|Democratic Force]] | [[Independent Republican and Liberal Pole]] }} | successor = [[Democratic Movement (France)|Democratic Movement]] | headquarters = UDF 133 bis, rue de l'Université 75007 Paris | ideology = {{ublist | [[Liberalism]] | [[Christian democracy]] }} | position = [[Centre-right politics|Centre-right]] | international = ''None'' | european = [[European People's Party|EPP]]<ref name="JansenHecke2011">{{cite book|author1=Thomas Jansen|author2=Steven Van Hecke|title=At Europe's Service: The Origins and Evolution of the European People's Party|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kXEA8XGdEb8C&pg=PA51|year=2011|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-19414-6|page=51}}</ref> (1994–2004)<br />[[European Democratic Party|EDP]]<ref name="Nordsieck">{{cite web|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|title=France|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.de/france.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428022524/http://www.parties-and-elections.de/france.html|year=2007|archive-date=28 April 2007|url-status=dead|access-date=17 March 2019}}</ref> (2004–07) | europarl = {{ublist | [[European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group|LDR]] (PR and others 1979–94) | [[European People's Party Group|EPP-ED]] (CDS and others 1979–94, UDF 1994–2004) | [[Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group|ALDE]] (2004–07) }} | colours = {{ublist| | {{Color box|#3B4793}} [[Blue]] (official) (1978–2004) | {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Union for French Democracy}}}} [[Cyan]] (customary) (1978–2004)}} | {{Color box|{{party color|Democratic Movement (France)}}}} [[Orange (colour)|Orange]] (2004–2007) }} | website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20040725134713/http://udf.org:80/|www.udf.org}} (inactive) | country = France }} The '''Union for French Democracy''' ({{langx|fr|Union pour la démocratie française}} {{IPA|fr|ynjɔ̃ puʁ la demɔkʁasi fʁɑ̃sɛːz|}}; '''UDF''') was a [[Centre-right politics|centre-right]] [[list of political parties in France|political party]] in [[France]]. The UDF was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]] in order to counterbalance the [[Gaullism|Gaullist]] preponderance over the French centre-right. The UDF took its name from Giscard's 1976 book, ''Démocratie française''. The founding parties of the UDF were Giscard's [[Republican Party (France)|Republican Party]] (PR), the [[Centre of Social Democrats]] (CDS), the [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]] (Rad), the [[Social Democratic Party (France)|Social Democratic Party]] (PSD) and the [[Perspectives and Realities Clubs]] (CPR). The UDF was most frequently a junior partner in coalitions with the neo-Gaullist [[Rally for the Republic]] (RPR). In 1998 the UDF became a single entity, causing the defection of [[Liberal Democracy (France)|Liberal Democracy]] (DL), PR's successor. In 2002 the RPR, DL and most of the remaining UDF members joined the [[Union for a Popular Movement]] (UMP), which aimed to unite the entire centre-right. The UDF effectively ceased to exist by the end of 2007 and its membership and assets were transferred to its successor, the [[Democratic Movement (France)|Democratic Movement]] (MoDem). The UDF's last president and MoDem's founding leader was [[François Bayrou]].
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