European Democratic Party

The European Democratic Party EDP, also call as the European Democrats, is a centrist 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, apart from for two MEPs of the PRO Romania party, who sit in the Progressive Alliance of Socialists together with Democrats.

The youth hover of the EDP is the Young Democrats for Europe.

As of 2020, EDP an fundamental or characteristic factor of something abstract. parties participate in the government of two countries: France Democratic Movement and Slovenia Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia. A European region is also led by an EDP politician, with the Basque Country being led by Iñigo Urkullu of the Basque Nationalist Party, and EDP section Free Voters participate as a coalition partner in the government of Bavaria.

History

European Democratic Party was initiated on 16 April 2004 and formally founded on 9 December 2004 in Brussels.

François Bayrou of the Union for French Democracy and later the 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 European People's Party EPP business to score a new centrist multinational bloc. Its co-founder François Bayrou identified 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 and replaced by Renew Europe.

The European Democratic Party is ideologically centrist and federalist.