European Democratic Party - Wikipedia European Democratic Party From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the European party. For the Czech party, see European Democratic Party (Czech Republic). For other uses, see European Democrats (disambiguation). European Democratic Party President François Bayrou Secretary-General Marielle de Sarnez Founded 9 December 2004 (2004-12-09) Split from European People's Party Headquarters Rue de l'Industrie 4, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Think tank Institute of European Democrats Youth wing Young Democrats for Europe (YDE) Ideology Centrism[1][2][3][4] Pro-Europeanism[5] Political position Centre[1][2][3][4] European Parliament group Renew Europe (9 MEPs) S&D (PRO Romania, 1 MEP) Colours Orange and blue European Parliament 10 / 705 European Council 0 / 27 European Commission 0 / 27 European Lower Houses 64 / 9,874 European Upper Houses 20 / 2,714 Website www.democrats.eu The European Democratic Party (EDP) is a centrist[1][2][3][4] European political party in favour of European integration. François Bayrou is the President of the party. Almost all MEPs of the European Democratic Party currently sit in the Renew Europe group, except for two MEPs of the PRO Romania party, who sit in the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. The youth wing of the EDP is the Young Democrats for Europe. As of 2020, EDP member parties participate in the government of two countries : France with Democratic Movement and Slovenia with Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia, and Bavaria with Free Voters. A European Region is also led by EDP politician : Basque Country with Iñigo Urkullu of Basque Nationalist Party. Contents 1 History 2 Members 2.1 Former member parties 3 Elected representatives of Member Parties 3.1 European institutions 4 References 5 External links History[edit] European Democratic Party was initiated on 16 April 2004 and formally founded on 9 December 2004 in Brussels. François Bayrou of the French Democratic Movement (MoDem) and Francesco Rutelli, former leader of the Democracy is Freedom and Alliance for Italy parties, served as the two co-presidents until 2019. Now, François Bayrou serves as the only president. The EDP was founded in reaction to the rising influence of Eurosceptic parties within European institutions. It drew pro-European centrist parties from the European People's Party (EPP) group to form a new centrist multinational bloc. Its co-founder François Bayrou described it as a party for people being neither conservative nor socialist." Since the beginning of the 6th European Parliament of 2004–2009, the EDP has formed a joint European parliamentary group with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party called the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group. This parliamentary group was dissolved in 2019. Members[edit] Members are national and regional political parties as well as members of the European Parliament, national and regional parliaments. Country or Region Party European MPs National MPs  Belgium Gérard Deprez (MCC – Mouvement des Citoyens pour le Changement) - -  Croatia People's Party - Reformists (Narodna stranka – Reformisti) - 1 / 151  Cyprus Citizens' Alliance (Συμμαχία Πολιτών, Symmachia Politon) - 1 / 56 Citizens' Platform (Platforma Politon) - -  Czech Republic Senator 21 (Senátor 21) - 0 / 200 3 / 81  France Democratic Movement (Mouvement démocrate) 5 / 79 41 / 577 4 / 348  Germany Free Voters (Freie Wähler) 2 / 96 0 / 709 2 / 69  Greece Union of Centrists (Ένωση Κεντρώων) - -  Hungary New Start (Új Kezdet) - 1 / 199  Italy European Democratic Party Italy (Partito Democratico Europeo Italia) - - Nicola Danti (Individual member) 1 / 76 -  Ireland Marian Harkin (Independent) 1 / 160  Poland Alliance of Democrats (Stronnictwo Demokratyczne) - -  Portugal Democratic Republican Party (Partido Democrático Republicano) - -  Romania Association of Italians of Romania – RO.AS.IT. (Asociaţia Italienilor din România – RO.AS.IT., Associazione degli Italiani di Romania – RO.AS.IT.) - 1 / 329 PRO Romania (PRO România) 1 / 33 0 / 329 [6]0 / 136  San Marino Future Republic (Repubblica Futura) Not an EU member 6 / 60  Slovenia Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (Demokratična stranka upokojencev Slovenije) - 5 / 90  Spain Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea) 1 / 58 6 / 350 10 / 265 Canarian Coalition (Coalición Canaria) - 1 / 350 1 / 265 Commitment to Galicia (Compromiso por Galicia) - -  Europe Young Democrats for Europe[7] (Jeunes Démocrates européens) - - Former member parties[edit]  Croatia : National Forum (Nacionalni forum), joined EDP in 2014, disbanded in 2015  Cyprus: European Party  Czech Republic: Party for the Open Society Way to Change, founding member of EDP, disbanded in 2009  France: Union of Democrats and Independents joined the ALDE party on 2 December 2016  Italy: Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, founding member of EDP, merged into the Democratic Party in 2007, MEPs Mario Pirillo, Silvia Costa and Vittorio Prodi stayed as individual members until 2014, now member of PES Alliance for Italy, party disbanded by the end of 2016  Lithuania: Labour Party, left in 2012 to join the ALDE party  Slovakia: People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, joined EDP in 2009, disbanded in 2014, succeeded by Democratic Slovakia Party Democratic Slovakia Party ('Strana Demokratického Slovenska') and European Democratic Party (Europska Demokraticka Strana) in 2019 Alena Bašistová[8] (Independent), not reelected in 2020 Elected representatives of Member Parties[edit] European institutions[edit] Organisation Institution Number of seats  European Union European Commission 0 / 28 European Council (Heads of Government) 0 / 28 Council of the EU (Participation in Government) 3 / 28 European Parliament 10 / 705  Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly 3 / 318 References[edit] ^ a b c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "European Union". Parties and Elections in Europe. ^ a b c John McCormick (2015). European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-137-45340-2. ^ a b c Lars Pehrson (12 June 2009). How Unified Is the European Union?: European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy. Springer. p. 160. ISBN 978-3-540-95855-0. ^ a b c Oskar Niedermayer (1 May 2013). Handbuch Parteienforschung. Springer. p. 831. ISBN 978-3-531-18932-1. ^ Nathalie Brack; Olivier Costa (2014). How the EU Really Works. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-4724-1465-6. ^ "PSD pierde 4 parlamentari chiar înaintea ieșirii ALDE de la guvernare. Social-democrații nu mai au majoritate în Senat -UPDATE – Politic – HotNews.ro". hotnews.ro (in Romanian). 26 August 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019. ^ "Adoption of the EDP manifesto and new member organisation | European Democrats – European Democratic Party". www.democrats.eu. Retrieved 19 April 2019. ^ Democrats, European (30 June 2017). "Individual membership request from MP Alena #Bašistová (SK) has just been accepted by the #EDPCouncil in #Coimbra. Welcome! #EDPCoimbrapic.twitter.com/RiOAZGrfQ7". @PDE_EDP. 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