However, this coalition, dominated by the centre-left, was undermined both by the revolutionary groups such as the anarchist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo ( CNT ) and Federación Anarquista Ibérica ( FAI ) and by anti-democratic far-right groups such as the Falange and the Carlists.

In the 2008 general election, Lazio gave 44. 2 % of its vote to the centre-right coalition, while the centre-left block took 41. 4 % of vote.

Formed in 1991 as a coalition of centre-left parties, it was formally established as a single party on 15 April 1999.

SdRP, SDU and some other socialist and social-democratic parties had formed the original Democratic Left Alliance as a centre-left coalition just prior to the nation's first free elections in 1991.

A split from the PPI, the United Christian Democrats ( CDU ), joined Forza Italia and the CCD in the centre-right Pole of Freedoms coalition ( later becoming the Pole for Freedoms ), while the PPI was a founding member of The Olive Tree centre-left coalition in 1996.

The first type is formed by centre-left parties for the short-term goal of creating a coalition government.

The centre-left coalition, a first for the Italian post-war political panorama, stayed in power until the 1968 general elections.

In 1995, Prodi was one of the founders of the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree, and as its main leader he defeated the Silvio Berlusconi-led centre-right Pole of Freedoms coalition in the 1996 Italian general election.

Shortly before the end of his term as President of the European Commission, Prodi returned to national Italian politics at the helm of the enlarged centre-left coalition, The Union.

Prodi's new cabinet drew in politicians from across his centre-left winning coalition, in addition to Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, an unelected former official of the European Central Bank with no partisan membership.

" On 22 February, centre-left coalition party leaders backed a non-negotiable list of twelve political conditions given by Prodi as conditions of his remaining in office.

The centre-left coalition only narrowly held on to its parliamentary majority in the 1998 Folketing election.

But later, Mollet got involved the SFIO in the build of a centre-left coalition, the Republican Front, which won a plurality in the 1956 elections.

Despite this, the UDF sometimes criticised the policies of the French government, although it did not wish to quit the majority coalition and enter the opposition, which was made up mostly of centre-left and left-wing parties.

Labour was out of office for most of the nineties, only regaining power when Helen Clark led it to victory and a Labour / Alliance coalition and centre-left government ( 1999 – 2002 ).

As for the centre-left, Helen Clark and her Labour-led coalition have been criticised from ex-Alliance members and non-government organisations for their alleged lack of attention to centre-left social policies, while trade union membership has recovered due to Labour's repeal of the Employment Contracts Act 1991 and labour market deregulation and the deunionisation that had accompanied it in the nineties.

After the 2006 general election in which centre-left The Union coalition won narrowly over the centre-right House of Freedoms, party leader Fausto Bertinotti was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies, and was replaced by Franco Giordano as party secretary.

The decision to participate in the centre-left coalition government, and in particular the party's decision to vote to refinance the Italian military presence in Afghanistan and send troops to Lebanon attracted criticism from other sections of the European far left and provoked the splits of many groups, notably the Communist Workers ' Party, the Communist Alternative Party and Critical Left.

As a consequence, Peters abandoned the National / New Zealand First coalition, splitting his party-National then governed for a further year, with the support of post-split ex-New Zealand First MPs, but the New Zealand general election, 1999 saw Helen Clark lead a centre-left coalition to victory.

The anti-LDP coalition government of Morihiro Hosokawa was formed by reformists who had triggered the 1993 election by leaving the LDP ( Japan Renewal Party, New Party Sakigake ), a liberal party formed only a year before ( Japan New Party ), the traditional centre-left opposition ( Kōmeitō, Democratic Socialist Party, Social Democratic Federation ) and the Democratic Reform Party, the political arm of the Rengō trade union federation, together with the JSP.

Basing its electoral majority largely on the Catholic countryside, the party originally supported governments based on liberal-conservative political positions, then to move into centre-left coalitions by European standards, despite some disbandaments to the right, such as the short-lived government led by Fernando Tambroni in 1960, relying on parliamentary support from the Italian Social Movement, the post-Fascist party.

Coalitions with the PSI became usual after the first centre-left government led by Moro in 1963 which saw the participation of the Socialists in key ministerial posts.

In 2006, the UP joined the SLD, SDPL and the liberal Democratic Party – demokraci. pl to form an electoral alliance of centre and centre-left parties, named Left and Democrats ( LiD ), for the upcoming local government elections.

However they were kept out of government by the centre-left cabinet formed by the Social Democratic Party of Germany and Free Democratic Party ( Germany ), led by Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt.

In 1997 the New Labour government committed to a multiculturalist approach at a national level, but after 2001 there was something of a backlash, led by centre-left commentators such as David Goodhart and Trevor Phillips.

In August 1919, he became Private Secretary and speech writer to the politician John Storey, a prominent member of the centre-left Australian Labor Party that was then in opposition to the Nationalist government in the state of New South Wales.

After a five-year centre-left government, Berlusconi managed to keep at bay some of the most uncompromising Lega Nord proposals and won the 2001 general election, this time with a view to create a stable government.

Regions acquired a significant level of autonomy following a constitutional reform in 2001 ( brought about by a centre-left government and confirmed by popular referendum ), granting them with residual policy competence.

The new president allowed the first centre-left government to be formed in Finland.

The party gained considerable electoral success during the following years and occasionally supplied external support to centre-left governments, although it never directly joined a government.

In 1976, another election was held and the first Constitutional government, led by the centre-left socialist Mário Soares, assumed office.

Under the nominally centre-left Australian Labor Party from 1983 to 1996, the Bob Hawke and Paul Keating governments pursued many economic policies associated with economic rationalism, such as floating the Australian Dollar in 1983, reductions in trade tariffs, taxation reforms, changing from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining, heavy restrictions on union activities including on strike action and pattern bargaining, the privatisation of government run services and enterprises such as Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank, and wholesale deregulation of the banking system.

It formed part of a centre-left government 1957 – 60 and was also represented in the European Parliament 1978 – 79.

Following the election, Račan became Prime Minister of Croatia and formed a six-party centre-left government with ministers from SDP, HSLS, the Croatian Peasants Party ( HSS ), the Liberal Party ( LS ), the Croatian People's Party ( HNS ), and the Istrian Democratic Assembly ( IDS ).

The Conservatives did cooperate with the Social Liberals during its time in power in the 1980s and also cooperated with the centre-left government under Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in the 1990s.

SDP and HSLS then formed a six-way centre-left coalition government along with the Croatian Peasant Party ( HSS ), the Liberal Party ( LS ), Croatian People's Party ( HNS ), and the Istrian Democratic Assembly ( IDS ).

) In 1998, after the resignation of RP-DYP coalition following the " February 28 " post-modern and soft military coup, centre-right ANAP formed a coalition government with centre-left DSP and the small centre-right party DTP ( Democratic Turkey Party ), along with the support of CHP.

Born in Watford, Hertfordshire, Oaten became a councillor in local government, joining the centre-left Social Democratic Party, which merged with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats in 1988.

The split with Mebyon Kernow was down to the same debate that was occurring in most of the political parties campaigning for autonomy from the United Kingdom at the time ( for example the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru ), whether to be a centre-left party appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.

In the past Dublin city was regarded as a stronghold for Fianna Fáil, however following the Irish local elections, 2004 the party was eclipsed by the centre-left Labour Party.

He wrote that " all of the democratic circles of America and of Europe, especially those of the Italian centre-left, now know well that the disastrous attack was planned and realized by the American CIA and Mossad with the help of the Zionist world to place the blame on Arabic countries and to persuade the Western powers to intervene in Iraq and Afghanistan ".

The 2007 presidential election was won by the centre-left Álvaro Colóm.

Kinnock was determined to move the party's political standing to a centre-left position.

In the April 1996 snap parliamentary elections, Berlusconi was defeated by the centre-left candidate Romano Prodi.

In the May 2001 parliamentary elections, he was again the centre-right candidate for Prime Minister and won against the centre-left candidate Francesco Rutelli.

In late 2006 a centre-left political alliance called Left and Democrats was created, comprising SLD and smaller centre-left parties, the Labour Union, the Social Democratic Party of Poland, and the liberal Democratic Party – demokraci. pl.

The party was often led by centrist figures unaffiliated to any faction such as Aldo Moro, Mariano Rumor ( both closer to the centre-left ) and Giulio Andreotti ( closer to the centre-right ).

From the 1980s until 1992 the party was divided between the centre-right led by Arnaldo Forlani ( supported also by the party's right-wing ) and the centre-left led by Ciriaco De Mita ( whose supporters included trade unionists and the internal left ), with Andreotti holding the balance.

There was a widespread stirring of national public opinion as virtually the entire French political spectrum from centre-right to centre-left united in fierce opposition to Le Pen's ideas.

The Greens (, ; VEC or LV ) was a Green political party on the centre-left of the political spectrum in France.

Often critical towards Charles de Gaulle, Le Monde was often described in the past as left-wing, but its editorial line may be more appropriately described nowadays as centre-left.

In the chamber he was president of the group of the centre-left, standing strongly for the republic but against anti-clericalism.

GreenLeft was founded in 1989 as merger of four parties that were to the left of the Labour Party ( PvdA ), a social-democratic party which is traditionally the largest centre-left party in the Netherlands.

The French centre-left was at breaking point.