Bio
The Mouvement Démocrate, known as MoDem, is one of the founding forces of the European Democratic Party, founded in 2007 by François Bayrou in the wake of the French presidential election. It grew out of the centrist tradition of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), carrying into the 21st century a current of French politics that is neither of the left nor of the right, but resolutely of the centre — and resolutely European.
MoDem stands for a humanist, social and federalist vision of politics: the conviction that France's future is inseparable from a stronger, more democratic European Union, and that the role of the centre is to build bridges, defend pluralism and place the general interest above partisan division. It champions balanced public finances, education, ecological responsibility and the deepening of European integration.
Within the European Democratic Party, which its predecessor, the UDF, co-founded in 2004, MoDem embodies a conviction at the core of the EDP's vision: that a great democratic party, neither conservative nor socialist and true to the spirit of the founding fathers, is needed to build a stronger and more democratic Europe.
