Mouvement Democrate (MoDem)

The Mouvement Démocrate, known as MoDem, is one of the founding forces of the European Democratic Party and the political home of its President, François Bayrou, who created it in 2007 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.

For the European Democrats, MoDem embodies the very spirit at the origin of the party: the call, first made in 2004, for a great democratic party, neither conservative nor socialist, that takes up the spirit of the founding fathers. From that conviction, shared across borders, the European Democratic Party was born.