In Europe, the centre-left includes social democrats, social liberals, progressives and also some democratic socialists and greens.

The party moved towards social liberalism during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and came to be seen as being on the centre-left of British politics.

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.

* The Labour Party ( PvdA ), a social democratic, centre-left Labour party.

As an economic ideal, mixed economies are supported by people of various political persuasions, typically centre-left and centre-right, such as social democrats or Christian democrats.

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.

The term " social democrat " is more common, but the more general " left-wing " or " centre-left " are used far more frequently.

The Social Democratic Party of Croatia (), commonly referred to in Croatia as simply the Social Democratic Party ( Socijaldemokratska partija or SDP for short ), is a social democratic political party and the largest centre-left political party in Croatia.

In 1991, since Turkey's election system had two large election thresholds ( 10 % nationwide and 15 % local thresholds ) and since centre-left is divided into two parties ( SHP and DSP ), social democrats and democratic left groups had little power in the parliament.

Its first political position, after its foundation as the People's Democratic Party, was centre-left and social democratic, but it moved to the right during the 1980s.

* Right-wing Populists: Distinct from Radical right-wing populists, the populist centre and centre-left social democrats ( like João Jardim and Sá Carneiro ), the populist overlapers ( like Cavaco Silva ), and the euro-skeptic populists of the Democratic and Social Centre – People ’ s Party ( CDS-PP ).

Cavaco himself, though a self-described Neo-Keynesian, an early member of the party since its centre-left days and a man with social liberal and centrist populist economic policy tendencies, he is personally a conservative ( opposing same-sex marriage and abortion ) and a practicing Catholic.

A similar case is Vasco Graça Moura, who claims to be an economic social democrat but opposes gay people serving in the military and is a self-described " centre-left reactionary ".

Although open to privatization and civil society alternatives to the social state, in speech they move closer to the centre-left origins of the party and proud of them.

which represented the centre-left and centrist factions of the Movement and he moved to modernize the Party, making it purely social democratic.

The Pakistan People's Party (; commonly referred to as PPP ) is ( by Pakistani standards based on the Pakistani political spectrum ) a centre-left social liberal, democratic socialist / social-democratic, progressive political party in Pakistan.

However, this government didn't manage to form majority in the Chamber of Deputies and so was depending on toleration of centre-left Czech Social Democratic Party ( government disposed of 99 deputies out of 200, social democrats of 61 deputies and non-system parties of 40 deputies ).

The Latvian Social Democratic Workers ' Party (, LSDSP ) is a centre-left, social democratic party in Latvia.

The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (, LSDP ) is a centre-left and social democratic political party in Lithuania.

The centre-left promotes a degree of social equality that it believes is achievable through promoting equal opportunity.

The centre-left, unlike the far-left, typically claims that equality of outcome is not possible, but that equal opportunity improves social equality in society.

The Radical Party of the Left (, PRG ) is a social-liberal moderate centre-left political party in France which advocates radicalism, secularism to its French extent known as laïcité, progressivism, pro-Europeanism, individual freedom and differs mainly from the social democrats of the Socialist Party on advocating private property.

Liberals are now divided over the centre-right The People of Freedom ( the Silvio Berlusconi-led successor of Forza Italia, itself primarily a merger of liberal and Christian-democratic forces ) and the centre-left Democratic Party ( a merger of social democrats, progressive Christian democrats and social-liberals ).

As an ally of the " progressives " alliance in the 1994 general election, he agreed the " withdrawal " pact with the Ulivo coalition: Rifondazione would refrain from running candidates in certain electoral districts and advise its voters to support the candidates of the centre-left.

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.

Yet in the same election the centre-left Labour Party also lost a lot of seats.

However, the democratic centre-left governments of the 1990s also made a strong commitment to poverty reduction.

The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland ( also rendered as Swiss Socialist Party ; ; ; ; ) is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland.

He also singled himself out by appearing publicly with right-wing leaders, contrarily to the tactics adopted by the Green Party and the centre-left during that campaign.

This can in part be explained by the party standing in many more municipalities, but it can also be seen as a reaction to the so-called ' right-wing winter ' in national politics, as the welfare reforms of the right-wing second Balkenende cabinet were called by its centre-left and left-wing opponents.

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

He also became one of the leaders of the Radical Socialist Party, that was named Estonian Labour Party and eventually became a centre-left party.

The leaders of the Socialist Left faction, and the centre-left under Martin Ferguson and Julia Gillard, also maintained their support for him.

He also served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003, during which he headed two centre-left coalition governments.

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.

The Ettajdid Movement ( Movement for Renewal ;, ; ), also referred to simply as Ettajdid, is a centre-left secularist political party in Tunisia.

Among its representatives were most of the leaders between Francisco Sá Carneiro and Cavaco Silva, Alberto João Jardim ( also a founding member and an anti-neoliberal ) and to an extent Luís Filipe Menezes ( who called the PSD the " moderate left party ", identified himself with a centre-left matrix and a united left strategy and defended a more open party on issues like abortion.

The Union of Citizens of Georgia () ( also known as the Citizens ' Union of Georgia or Georgian Citizens ' Union ) is a centre-left political party established by Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia between 1992-2003 and David Chantladze, former General Trade Representative of Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia.

At the same time, the city also elected a centre-left council, dominated by the City Vision and Action Hobson councillors.

The honorific terms " sister " and " brother ", also declining in usage, are more politically inclusive, encompassing everyone from the centre-left to the far-left, without necessarily indicating complete political agreement.

Rupel also remained in office during the first centre-left coalition government led by Janez Drnovšek.

Despite this, UDC takes part with The People of Freedom ( PdL ), the main party of the Italian centre-right, within several regional, provincial and municipal governments ( notably in Lazio, Campania and Calabria ), but has recently formed alliances also with the centre-left Democratic Party ( PD ) in other regions ( notably in Marche ) and at the very local level.

They have begun to do so through the New Pole for Italy, an alliance composed also of splinters from the centre-right ( Future and Freedom ) and the centre-left ( Alliance for Italy ).

The Daisy, led by Francesco Rutelli ( who was also candidate for Prime Minister for the whole centre-left ), won 14. 5 % of the vote, only two points less than the Democrats of the Left ( DS ).

It was centrist, sometimes also classified as centre-left.

The PSTU is also the main force of the Brazilian extreme left and first took part in elections in the Third Pole ( the alternative to the two poles of the bourgeois alternation of centre-left and centre-right, Lula and Alckmin ), the Third Pole that supported the candidacy of Heloísa Helena Lima de Moraes Carvalho, former member of the PT ( the party of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ) expelled from the PT with others for her opposition to the bourgeois politics of the government and in particular to the counter-reform of pensions ( in 2008 she became leader of the Socialism and Freedom Party with Ivan Valente and Luciana Genro ).

Provision was also included, on the input of Mirko Tremaglia, to ease the vote of Italians resident abroad ; paradoxically, Italians abroad proved crucial in securing centre-left victory in 2006 elections.