The present Mayor is Élio Manuel Delgado da Maia, elected by a coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Social Centre.

I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’

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A 1924 right-wing German political cartoon showing Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party of Germany | German Social Democratic politician who proclaimed the Weimar Republic and was its second Chancellor, and Matthias Erzberger, an anti-war politician from the Centre Party ( Germany ) | Centre Party, who signed the Armistice with Germany ( Compiègne ) | armistice with the Allies ( World War I ) | Allies, as stabbing the German Army in the back

The Independence Party and Centre Party were against accession to the EU, but only the Independence Party still wants Estonia to withdraw from the European Union.

Centre Party, Christian Democratic Party, Socialist Left Party and Liberal Party were against EU-membership in both referendums.

Centre Party and Socialist Left Party are also against the current membership in the European Economic Community.

Centre Party is generally considered to have the hardes stance against EU membership.

The Centre Party are also moderately skeptic towards the EU.

The parliament has, since equal and common suffrage was introduced in 1906, been dominated by secular Conservatives, the Centre Party ( former Agrarian Union ), and Social Democrats.

Fine Gael was founded on 8 September 1933 following the merger of its parent party Cumann na nGaedheal, the National Centre Party and the National Guard, popularly known as the " Blueshirts " ( a name still used colloquially to refer to the party ).

In the so-called Kulturkampf ( 1872 – 1878 ), he tried to limit the influence of the Roman Catholic Church and of its political arm, the Catholic Centre Party, through various measures — like the introduction of civil marriage — but without much success.

With accommodations to the Catholic Centre Party, Hitler succeeded in convincing a required two-thirds of a rigged Parliament to pass the Enabling act of 1933 which gave his government full legislative power.

As predicted by those familiar with Carr's long-standing relationship with the newly-elected Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May, Carr accepted the paid position of Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada and is a federal candidate in the riding of Vancouver Centre.

The deal, which was heavily criticised by the Swedish Social Democratic Party, meant that each party had its own voting ticket but that the Centre Party should nominate a Christian Democratic candidate on at least 5 of the regional candidacy lists.

Roblin was a candidate in Winnipeg South Centre for the 1968 federal election, but lost to Liberal E. B.

After Kekkonen resigned in October 1981, Virolainen became the Centre Party's presidential candidate, but he was handily defeated in the 1982 presidential elections by the Social Democratic candidate, Mauno Koivisto.

Peterson even lost his own seat, having been resoundingly defeated by NDP candidate Marion Boyd in London Centre by over 8, 200 votes.

MacDonald ran as the NDP candidate in Toronto Centre — Rosedale in the 1997 election ; in the previous election, he was the PC incumbent, and like every other PC candidate in Ontario in 1993, was defeated.

As Rüütel had been the candidate of the opposition ( mostly consisting of Centre Party and People's Union ), Savi's loss ( in the last round he was supported by both Reform Party, Pro Patria Union and the Moderates ) was a great disappointment for the ruling tripartite coalition.

In the 1999 Ontario provincial election, Sewell ran as an independent candidate in the riding of Toronto Centre -- Rosedale, challenging Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Al Leach to protest the megacity.

He served as Chancellor of Germany from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928, and was the Centre Party's ( and, in the second round, the entire Weimar Coalition's ) candidate in the 1925 presidential election.

The cordon sanitaire turned out to be counterproductive with the Centre Democrats winning 77 seats in the 1994 local elections and gaining representation in almost every city where it fielded a candidate.

The top candidate was Robert Ede in York Centre, with 1, 792 votes ( 2. 31 %).

Cassidy faced a difficult re-election in Ottawa Centre, and defeated Progressive Conservative candidate David Small by only 599 votes.

He campaigned for the federal New Democratic Party in the 1984 election, and defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Dan Chilcott by 54 votes to win the Ottawa Centre riding.

The 1919 election saw the Liberals and their allies drop from 30 seats to 27 with Proudfoot himself defeated in his riding of Huron Centre by the Labour candidate.

He ran unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate in the 1904 federal election for Toronto South and in the 1911 federal election for York Centre.

In the buildup to the 1993 federal election, Nunziata criticized Liberal leader Jean Chrétien for appointing Art Eggleton over a local candidate in York Centre.

At age 21, he was an unsuccessful candidate in Ottawa Centre for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1972 general election.

During the 1980 federal election, held on February 18, 1980, of that year, Mathews ran as the National Party candidate in Ottawa Centre.

In 1990, Léopold Eyharts was selected as an astronaut candidate by CNES ( Centre National d ’ Études Spatiales ) and assigned to support the Hermes spaceplane program managed by the Hermes Crew office in Toulouse.

He fell from office with Thiers on May 24, 1873, and was elected president of the Left Centre group, as whose candidate he unsuccessfully contested the presidency of the Chamber with Buffet.

In the 1997 election, running in Vancouver Centre as a CAP candidate, she received 528 votes, coming in seventh behind Liberal Hedy Fry.

On May 13, 2004, Eggleton announced he would not be a candidate in the 2004 federal election, making way for the nomination of Ken Dryden as the Liberal candidate in York Centre.

The Centre Party was the largest party in Parliament from 2003 to 2011, during which time Matti Vanhanen was Prime Minister for seven years.

In 2010, the Finnish police investigated whether Vanhanen had been wrong not to disqualify himself in certain cabinet decisions on financial contributions to an organization affiliated with the Centre Party, which had previously financed Vanhanen's presidential campaign.

For example in the first round of 2006 presidential elections, the Centre Party candidate Matti Vanhanen got 57. 1 % of all votes from Reisjärvi.

# Matti Vanhanen ( Centre Party ); the incumbent Prime Minister of Finland,

File: Matti Vanhanen 2008. jpg | Matti Vanhanen candidate of the Centre Party, finished 3rd on 1st round with 18. 6 % of the votes.

This is also the view held by Vanhanen, of the Centre Party, and Halonen.