CENTRE-RIGHT

The 'centre-right' is a political term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political parties or organisations (such as think tanks) whose views stretch from the centre to the right on the left-right spectrum, excluding far right stances. Centre-right can also describe a coalition of centrist and right-wing parties.

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Ideological definition of the centre-right

Examples of centre-right parties

See also

Ideological definition of the centre-right

A definition of the term "centre-right" is necessarily broad and approximate because political terms have varying meanings in different countries. Parties of the centre-right generally support liberal democracy, capitalism, the market economy, private property rights and the existence of the welfare state in some form. They generally oppose socialism, extreme secularism and the use of violence as a political tool. Such a definition generally includes political parties that base their ideology and policies upon Conservatism and economic liberalism.
However, parties that subscribe to social liberalism are often associated with the centre-left. Centre-right parties often ground themselves in traditional values; as such, most predominantly Christian states possess a competitive centre-right Christian democratic party.
The use of centre-right is sometimes expanded to include populist right-wing parties such as the Freedom Party of Austria, the Danish People's Party, and the Law and Justice (PiS) party in Poland. While the Freedom Party and the Danish People's Party would generally be classified as right-wing, parties like Law and Justice are both populist and conservative, and so are sometimes classified centre-right.

Examples of centre-right parties

★ Examples of centre-right political parties include:

★ In 'Australia':

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★ The Coalition including:

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★ Liberal Party of Australia

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★ National Party of Australia

★ In 'Canada':

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★ Conservative Party of Canada

★ In 'Denmark':

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★ Conservative People's Party

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★ Venstre

★ In the 'European Parliament':

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★ Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe

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★ European Democrats

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★ European People's Party

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★ Movement for European Reform

★ In 'Finland':

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★ The National Coalition Party

★ In 'France':

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★ Union for a Popular Movement

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★ New Centre

★ In 'Germany':

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★ Christian Democratic Union

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★ Christian Social Union of Bavaria

★ In 'Greece':

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★ New Democracy (Greece)

★ In 'Ireland':

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★ Fianna Fáil

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★ Fine Gael

★ In 'Italy':

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★ Forza Italia

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★ Union of Christian and Centre Democrats

★ In 'Japan':

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★ The Liberal Democratic Party

★ In 'Luxembourg':

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★ Christian Social People's Party

★ In 'The Netherlands':

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★ People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

★ In 'New Zealand

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★ National Party of New Zealand

★ In 'Northern Ireland':

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★ Ulster Unionist Party

★ In the 'Republic of China':

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★ The Pan-Blue Coalition including:

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★ Kuomintang (KMT)

★ In 'Russia':

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★ Union of Right Forces

★ In 'Portugal':

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★ The Social Democratic Party

★ In 'Spain':

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★ People's Party

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★ BNP

★ In 'Sweden':

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★ The Alliance for Sweden coalition including:

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★ Moderate Party

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★ Liberal People's Party

★ In 'Turkey':

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★ Justice and Development Party (Turkey) (controversial)

★ In the 'United Kingdom':

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★ The Conservative Party

★ In the 'United States':

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★ The United States Republican Party

See also

★ Left-Right politics

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★ Centre-left

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★ Ultra leftism

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★ Far left

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★ Left-wing politics

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★ Right-wing politics

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★ Far right

★ Ideology

★ Glossary of the French Revolution

★ Political spectrum

★ Political compass

★ Nolan chart

★ World's Smallest Political Quiz