Centre Democracy and Progress
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| name = Centre Democracy and Progress
| native_name = Centre démocratie et progrès
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| leader1_name = Jacques Duhamel
| leader2_title = Vice-president
| leader2_name = Joseph Fontanet
| foundation = {{start date|1969}}
| dissolution = {{end date|1976}}
| split = Democratic Centre
| merged = Centre of Social Democrats
| ideology = {{nowrap|Christian democracy{{cite book |last=Hanley |first=David |chapter=France: Living with Instability |editor-last=Broughton |editor-first=David |title=Changing Party Systems in Western Europe |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NkDNoNiBEjUC&pg=PA66 |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |year=1999 |page=66 |access-date=21 August 2012 |isbn=978-1-85567-328-1}}
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| position = Centre-right
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| country = France
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Centre Democracy and Progress ({{langx|fr|Centre démocratie et progrès}}, CDP) was a centrist and Christian democratic political party in France. The party was founded in 1969 by centrists from the Democratic Centre (CD) who supported Gaullist Georges Pompidou in the 1969 presidential election,{{cite book |last=Massart |first=Alexis |chapter=The Impossible Resurrection: Christian Democracy in France |editor1-last=Van Hecke |editor1-first=Steven |editor2-last=Gerard |editor2-first=Emmanuel |title=Christian Democratic Parties in Europe Since the End of the Cold War|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJ6x8zmRAaEC&pg=PA199 |publisher=Leuven University Press |year=2004 |pages=199–200 |isbn=978-90-5867-377-0}} and joined the coalition of the cabinet of Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas.
Its goal was to influence governmental policy in a pro-European, liberal and reformist direction. It supported the program of Chaban-Delmas for the advent of a "New Society", in which the relations between social forces would be based on dialogue, and in which there would be less control of society by the state. The CDP supported the unsuccessful presidential candidacy of Chaban-Delmas in the 1974 presidential election.
In the 1973 legislative election, the CDP won 23 seats.
In May 1976, CDP merged with the CD to form the Centre of Social Democrats (CDS),{{cite book |editor1-last=Aplin |editor1-first=Richard |editor2-last=Montchamp |editor2-first=Joseph |title=Dictionary of Contemporary France |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nsa2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2014 |page=87 |isbn=978-1-135-93653-2}} which in 1978 joined the Union for French Democracy (UDF).{{cite book |last=Atkin |first=Nicholas |title=The Fifth French Republic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QNAcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA127 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2004 |page=127 |isbn=978-0-230-80184-4}}
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Category:1969 establishments in France
Category:1976 disestablishments in France
Category:Defunct political parties in France
Category:Political parties established in 1969
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Category:Political parties of the French Fifth Republic
Category:Catholic political parties
Category:Centrist parties in France
Category:Christian democratic parties in Europe
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