Modern Centre Party (Werania)
Modern Centre Party Partei des Modernen Zentrums | |
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Leader | Edmund Remarque Anna Nehammer |
Founded | August 13, 1982 |
Split from | National Consolidation Party |
Headquarters | Westbrücken |
Youth wing | Modern Centre Future |
Membership (2015) | 217,000 |
Ideology | Conservative liberalism Economic liberalism Pro-Eucleanism Factions Social liberalism Liberal conservatism Sotirian democracy |
Political position | Centre to centre-right |
Euclean Parliament group | Euclean Liberal Party |
Colors | Blue, yellow |
Volkstag | 32 / 545
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Herrstag | 44 / 349
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Landtags/Seimas | 202 / 1,151
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Euclean Parliament | 12 / 122
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The Modern Centre Party (Weranic: Partei des Modernen Zentrums) abbreviated to PMZ is a centre-right political party in Werania. It is currently in opposition having previously served as the junior partner in coalition governments with the social-democratic Social Democratic Radical Party (SRPO) from 1988 to 1999 and 2011 to 2015.
The Modern Centre Party was founded in 1982 by reformist members of the National Consolidation Party (NKP) following the Steinman Scandal in order to create a centre-right party that would represent an alternative choice from the NKP. The PMZ brought together Sotirian democrats, liberals and radicals becoming a rather centrist party. It advocated social and economic liberalisation alongside pro-Eucleanism in order to challenge the long held hegemony of the NKP and the left-wing parties, becoming the main force of liberalism, attracting former NKP and left-wing politicians and voters disillusioned in their lack of affinity with the major parties.
Following the 1988 election the PMZ entered as a junior coalition partner of the first "purple" government of Ludolf Ostermann between SPRO and PMZ. The Ostermann government was noted internationally for its social and economic liberal policies with the PMZ being a strong force in the marketisation of the Weranic economy. The purple government was re-elected in 1992 and 1996. In 1999 the PMZ terminated the coalition with the SRPO after a perceived turn to the left by the other governing party.
The PMZ stayed in opposition from 1999 to 2011 when they formed another coalition as the junior partner with the SPRO. The coalition was re-elected in 2015 before both parties went into opposition in 2019 after securing historically poor results. The SRPO-PMZ government implemented several economically liberal reforms to deal with the 2000's Euclean financial crisis.
Modern Centre is often seen as a liberal party with the majority of its members both economic and social liberalism. The party was historically split between a "reformist" faction that wished to take over the NKP as the largest party of the right and a "liberal" faction who wished to position it as a centrist party. The party has since the 1990's been mostly seen as being controlled by the "liberal" faction, although divisions how hew along a more conventional left and right wing of the party who differ on the issue of economic reform. PMZ is considered the most pro-Euclean party in Werania being a member of the Euclean Liberal Party (ELP).