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Bakili Muluzi, leader of the United Democratic Front ( UDF ), was elected President in those elections.

Bakili Muluzi was re-elected to serve a second five-year term as President, despite an MCP-AFORD Alliance that ran a joint slate against the UDF.

Sharjah's small force was merged into the UDF in 1986.

Utilising a populist tone, Le Pen presented himself as the representative of the people against the " gang of four " ( RPR, UDF, PS, PCF ), while the central theme of his campaign was " national preference ".

This attitude was interpreted as indicating that he wanted to regain the UDF leadership.

Indeed, he served as President of the UDF from 1988 to 1996, but he was faced with the rise of a new generation of politicians called the " renovationmen ".

* the Ulster Defence Force ( UDF )— whose role was to give " specialist military training " to a select group of UDA members.

Madelin unsuccessfully ran in 1996 for president of the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ), and was defeated by François Léotard.

He was elected as leader of the Parti Républicain, a part of the UDF coalition, which he renamed Démocratie Libérale.

For example, right after the legislative election of 1986, President François Mitterrand appointed Jacques Chirac as prime minister, Chirac was a member of the RPR and a political opponent of Mitterrand's, and despite the fact the Mitterrand's own Socialist Party was still the largest party in the Assembly, the RPR had an ally in the UDF, which gave them a majority.

Nevertheless, it was faced with the creation of the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ), a confederation of the parties supporting the presidential policies and which competed for the leadership over the right.

Consequently, the stake of the 1978 legislative election was not only the victory of the right over the left, but the domination of the RPR over the UDF in the parliamentary majority.

The UMP was the merger of the Gaullist-conservative Rally for the Republic ( RPR ), the conservative-liberal party Liberal Democracy ( DL ), a sizeable portion of the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ), more precisely the UDF's Christian Democrats ( such as Philippe Douste-Blazy and Jacques Barrot ), the liberal Radical Party and the centrist Popular Party for French Democracy ( both associate parties of the UDF until 2002 ).

However, in old " clerical " Catholic rural areas, such as parts of Lozère or Cantal, it is very strong, as was the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) in its hey day.

Headed by Alain Madelin, the party replaced the Republican Party, which was the classical liberal component of the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ).

The immediate cause of this departure was Liberal Democracy's refusal to condemn the election of four UDF president of Regional Councils with the votes of the National Front.

On economics, DL was systematically more free-market than the UDF.

The party was firmly backed by managers, who made up 24 % of DL's voters ( 18 % for the New UDF ); only 4 % of DL voters were manual workers ( 13 % for the New UDF ).

The Union for French Democracy ( Union pour la Démocratie Française, UDF ) was a centrist political party in France.

The UDF was most frequently a junior partner in coalitions with the Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and its successor party, the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ).

Three Emirates maintain their own forces, called Regional Commands by the UDF:

* UDF = Union for French Democracy ( Union pour la Démocratie Française ) succeeded by Democratic Movement

In 2007, a section of the remaining UDF, headed by François Bayrou, refused to align themselves on Nicolas Sarkozy and created the MoDem in an attempt to make space for a center-right party.

Since then, the government alternated between a left-wing coalition ( composed of the French Socialist Party ( PS ), the French Communist Party ( PCF ) and more recently Les Verts, the Greens ) and a right-wing coalition ( composed of Jacques Chirac's Rally for the Republic ( RPR ), later replaced by the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ), and the Union for French Democracy, UDF ).

VGE reacted by founding a centre-right confederation, the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ).

The physical format of MRW disks is a layer placed in between the file system ( e. g. UDF or FAT32 ) imposed by the operating system or the packet writing software used to write or read the disk and the physical layer which determines how data is written to or extracted from the optical disc.

This is achieved by the use of specialized packet writing software, or operating systems that support UDF versions 1. 5 and above.

Chirac's UMP came in first, followed by the Socialist Party, the National Front, UDF, PCF, the Greens, and then the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist League ( LCR ) and Lutte Ouvrière.

This followed the formation of the Democratic Force ( FD ) by the centrist, Christian democratic component of the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ), leading to internal rivalry.

However, the party had already feared that a tighter UDF would be dominated by economic centrists, preventing his free-market policies being heard.

On 21 September 2002, DL voted by 15, 770 votes to 2, 930 to merge with the RPR and pro-Chirac elements of the UDF.

The UDF effectively ceased to exist by the end of 2007, and its membership and assets were transferred to its successor party, the Democratic Movement ( MoDem ).

Contrary to the Neo-Gaullists, the Giscardian UDF advocated less economic interventionism by the state, the decentralisation in aid of the local authorities, and a strong commitment towards the building of a federal Europe.

According to the historian René Rémond, the UDF descended from the Orleanist tradition of the right, whereas the RPR was a reincarnation of the Bonapartist tradition, which promotes national independence by virtue of a strong state.

As the UDF list, led by Simone Veil, obtained a very good result compared with RPR's score, the quarrels between the two parties and the rivalry between Giscard d ' Estaing and Chirac contributed, in 1981, to the defeat of the incumbent UDF president who ran for a second term.

Little by little, the RPR abandoned Gaullist doctrine and joined the market-oriented and pro-European positions of the UDF.

Barre was a candidate in the 1988 presidential election, yet, despite his popularity, he was not supported by all UDF personalities.

All of the UDF and the RPR were allied in opposition to the Socialist power which was weakened by the economic crisis, scandals, and internal quarrels.

In 1996 a former balladurien, François Léotard, was elected President of the UDF by defeating Alain Madelin.

By that point, Muluzi and the UDF had thrown their support behind the candidacy of John Tembo, the President of the Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ).