Modern Centre Party (Werania)

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Modern Centre Party

Partei des Modernen Zentrums
LeaderEdmund Remarque
Anna Nehammer
FoundedAugust 13, 1982 (1982-08-13)
Split fromNational Consolidation Party
HeadquartersWestbrücken
Youth wingModern Centre Future
Membership (2015)217,000
IdeologyConservative liberalism
Economic liberalism
Pro-Eucleanism
Factions
Social liberalism
Liberal conservatism
Sotirian democracy
Political positionCentre to centre-right
Euclean Parliament groupEuclean Liberal Party
Colors   Blue, yellow
Volkstag
32 / 545
Herrstag
44 / 349
Landtags/Seimas
202 / 1,151
Euclean Parliament
12 / 122

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 from 1988-1995 alongside the centre-left Social Democratic Radical Party of Werania (SRPO), 1999-2007 with the centre-right National Consolidation Party (NKP) and 2011-2019 with the SRPO.

The Modern Centre Party was founded in 1982 by reformist members of the 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 but differences over economic policy led the PMZ to leave the government in 1995. They re-entered government this time with the conservative NKP in 1999 serving until the 2007 election when the Euclean financial crisis saw their vote count plummet. Following the 2007 electoral collapse the PMZ began to reinvent itself and underwent a strong revival in the 2011 election after which 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).

History

Early history

Purple government

Modern history

Ideology

Organisation

Leaders

Electoral results