Popular Republican Movement

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The Popular Republican Movement was a major French Christian democratic and centrist political party active primarily in the mid-20th century, influential in post-World War II reconstruction and European integration.

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Popular Republican Movement canonical 3

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instanceOf Christian democratic party
centrist party
political party
abbreviation MRP
activeInPeriod mid-20th century
color green
country France
dissolved 1967
electoralBase Catholic middle class
parts of western France
urban professionals
founded 1944
headquartersLocation Paris
historicalContext post-World War II France
ideology Christian democracy
centrism
pro-Europeanism
social conservatism
influentialIn creation of the French Fourth Republic
early stages of European integration
post-World War II reconstruction of France
nameInFrench Mouvement républicain populaire
notableMember André Colin
Francisque Gay
Georges Bidault
Maurice Schumann
Paul Coste-Floret
Pierre Pflimlin
Pierre-Henri Teitgen
Robert Schuman
opposed Communist Party of France
surface form: French Communist Party

Gaullist parties
originatedFrom French Resistance Catholic movements
participatedIn Provisional Government of the French Republic
surface form: French Provisional Government after World War II

French Fourth Republic
surface form: governments of the Fourth Republic of France
politicalPosition centre
centre-right
religiousOrientation Roman Catholic
roleInEuropeanIntegration founding force of European Coal and Steel Community
promoter of Franco-German reconciliation
successor Union for French Democracy
surface form: Democratic Centre (France)
supported European Coal and Steel Community
European Economic Community
supportedPolicy European federalist movement
surface form: European federalism

parliamentary democracy
social market economy
welfare state

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Robert Schuman memberOfPoliticalParty Popular Republican Movement
Constituent Assembly of 1945 hasMember Popular Republican Movement
Georges Bidault memberOfPoliticalParty Popular Republican Movement