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 ".

The new electoral law has come under wide criticism from the centre-left opposition since its introduction for a series of reasons:

Vendola easily won the election with more than 67 % of the votes, being therefore picked again as leader of the centre-left coalition, and went on to defeat centre-right candidate Rocco Palese by a wide margin.

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.

The 1977 general election were won by the PvdA, but the ideological and personal conflict between Van Agt and Den Uyl prevented the formation of a new centre-left cabinet.

It was a coalition between his Labour Party, People's Party, Christian People's Party, Farmers ' Assemblies and the Settlers party, combining almost all political parties from the centre-left to right.

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.

Politically, Segni was a moderate conservative opposed to " opening to the centre-left " enabling coalition governments between the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ) and the Christian Democrats.

In politics, centre-left is an adherence to views between left and centre on the left-right political spectrum.

Generally the party in UK politics most seen as holding the centre ground is the Liberal Democrats who are a social liberal party who are often placed between centre-left and the radical centre in terms of the political spectrum.

The Manitoba Liberal Party saw its popularity increase between 1986 and 1988, as many centre-left voters abandoned the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) government of Howard Pawley.

This coalition which suffered from internal disagreements and clashes between liberal Reform Party and centre-left rural parties ended in 1996, when Reform Party left the government.

The party was part of the centre-left FrePaSo coalition formed by the Broad Front in the 1990s and entered government in 1999 as part of the Alianza between FrePaSo and the Radical Civic Union that brought Fernando de la Rúa to the presidency.

During the first two years it built up a core-audience identified between the centre-left and the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ).

From 2002 on, there has been some reconciliation between Rifondazione and the centre-left.

The election concluded with an overwhelming victory for the centre-left Democratic Left Alliance – Labor Union, the electoral coalition between both the Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) and the Labour Union ( UP ), which captured 41 % of the vote in the crucial lower house Sejm.

He also criticized the centre-left governments of the 1960s and 1970s for worsening the living conditions of small farmers and poor workers, for example by favouring the big cities at the expense of the rural towns in abolishing small schools and grocery stores.

It developed this platform to the stage it is at now: a clear, moderate, centre-left political party.

Though the party was originally founded as a conservative, Republican and generally anti-Communist and anti-Monarchist party which wanted reforms to speed up so democracy could be put in place more quickly, and founded as a alternative to the Democratic Party and the Socialist Party, it has usually been aligned with the centre-right Democratic Party due to the fact that it was bitterly opposed to the Socialists, who they regarded as communists hiding under a more moderate centre-left guise.

It was intended to be a liberal centrist party, encompassing moderate voters from both the centre-left and the centre-right.

The party advocates moderate economic interventionism, although less so than the right-wing League of Polish Families or centre-left Democratic Left Alliance, and the party adopts the social market economy rhetoric of western European Christian democratic parties.

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.

It is a part of the Progressive Alliance, which in turn forms part of the Liber Seregni Front uniting the more moderate centre-left and centrist sectors of the Broad Front.

The opposition was split in two: moderate and centre-left camp of Coalition Party plus Centre Party on one side, and protest groups Estonian Citizen and Independent Royalists on the other side.

The WASG is squarely against the measures taken in the Agenda 2010 process and ran in the 2005 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, where it gained 2. 2 % of the votes, against what it considers " the neoliberal consensus " displayed by the governing centre-left political parties and the more conservative opposition alike.

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.

He achieved this in a number of ways: establishing the SNP Trade Union Group ; promoting centre-left policies ; and identifying the SNP with labour campaigns ( such as the Upper-Clyde Shipbuilders Work-in and the attempt of the workers at the Scottish Daily Express to run as a cooperative ).

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

He had been a leading proponent of such an " opening to the centre-left " for years.

The MRE was formed by those Republicans who refused such decision and wanted to remain in the centre-left.

The party maintains close links with the other centre-left political parties in the English-speaking Caribbean such as the Democratic Labour Party.

The Andalusian Party () is a nationalist centre-left political party from Andalusia ( Spain ), with an important presence in provinces such as Cádiz and Seville although in the past they have stood in other provinces and even won seats in Barcelona to the Catalan Regional Assembly.

However, since the 1964 military coup d ' état, and mainly after 1968, the newspaper became increasingly politically liberal, by supporting the legalization of abortion in Brazil, by criticizing US presidents such as George W. Bush and France's Nicolas Sarkozy, and by supporting the centre-left president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet.

As such, its ideology of civic as opposed to ethnic regionalism can be compared to other centre-left nationalist parties like the Scottish National Party or Plaid Cymru, although its orientation and goals are emphatically non-secessionist.

Ivo JosipovićCroatian President Ivo Josipović provides strong support for full LGBT rights, along with many other celebrities and centre-left political parties such as SDP, HNS, HSLS, Green List, and Labour Party.

It describes itself as centre-left and socially progressive and has been one of the two primary parties of New Zealand politics since 1935.

Third Way was created as a serious re-evaluation of political policies within various centre-left progressive movements in response to the ramifications of the collapse of international belief in the economic viability of the state economic interventionist policies that had previously been popularized by Keynesianism ; and the corresponding rise of popularity for neoliberalism and the New Right.

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.

Roblin's government put the CCF in a paradoxical situation, as the new Premier initiated long-overdue progressive legislation and outflanked the CCF in a bid for centre-left voters.

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 ).