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The centre-right (or center-right), also known as right of center, is a political term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political parties, or organizations (such as think tanks) whose views stretch from the centre to the right on the left-right spectrum, excluding far right stances. Centre-right can also describe a coalition of centrist and right-of-centre parties. Many political parties of the centre-right are known to have various factions and members who advocate right-of-centre policies.

[edit] Ideological definition of the centre-right

A definition of the term "centre-right" is necessarily broad and approximate because political terms have varying meanings in different countries. Parties of the centre-right generally support liberal democracy, capitalism, the market economy (although with some limited government regulation), private property rights, the existence of the welfare state in some limited form, and opposition to socialism and communism. Such definitions generally include political parties that base their ideology and policies upon conservatism and economic liberalism.

Parties that subscribe to social liberalism are often associated with the centre-left whereas those on the right of the liberal movement are often defined as conservative liberals or liberal conservatives. Centre-right parties often ground themselves in social conservative and traditionalist values and civic or liberal nationalism; as such, most predominantly Christian states possess a competitive centre-right Christian democratic party, while other centre-right parties may claim to uphold traditional Islamic values (such as in Pakistan) or those of other religious faiths, depending on the region.

The use of centre-right is sometimes expanded to include populist right-of-centre parties such as the Law and Justice in Poland, the Freedom Party of Austria or the Danish People's Party. While the Freedom Party and the Danish People's Party would generally be classified as right-wing, parties like Law and Justice are both populist and conservative, and so are sometimes classified centre-right.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Examples of centre-right parties

Examples of centre-right political parties include:
In Albania:
- Democratic Party of Albania
In Argentina:
- Republican Proposal
In Australia:
- The Coalition including:
  - Liberal Party of Australia
  - National Party of Australia
- Liberal National Party of Queensland formed after Lib/Nat merger at State level.
- Country Liberal Party, a Northern Territory based party, affiliated with the Liberal and National parties, and a member of the Coalition.
In The Bahamas:
- Free National Movement
In Brazil:
- Democrats
In Canada:
- Conservative Party of Canada
- Libertarian Party of Canada
In the Republic of China:
- The Pan-Blue Coalition including:
  - Kuomintang (KMT)
In Chile:
- Renovación Nacional
- Unión Demócrata Independiente
In Costa Rica:
- Social Christian Unity Party
In The Czech Republic:
- Civic Democratic Party
- KDU-ČSL
In Cyprus:
- Democratic Party
- Democratic Rally
In Denmark:
- Conservative People's Party
- Venstre, Liberal Party of Denmark
In the European Parliament:
- European People's Party
In Finland:
- National Coalition Party
- Christian Democrats
- Swedish People's Party
In France:
- New Centre
- Union for a Popular Movement
In Germany:
- Christian Democratic Union
- Free Democratic Party
In Ghana:
- The New Patriotic Party
In Greece:
- New Democracy
In Hungary:
- Alliance of Young Democrats
In Iceland:
- Independence Party
- Liberal Party
In India
- Bharatiya Janata Party
In Ireland:
- Fianna Fáil
- Fine Gael
- Progressive Democrats
In Israel
- Likud^{[dubious – discuss]}
In Italy:
- The People of Freedom
In Japan:
- The Liberal Democratic Party
In Republic of Korea
- Liberty Forward Party
- Grand National Party
In Luxembourg:
- Christian Social People's Party
In Macedonia:
- VMRO-Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity
In Mexico:
- National Action Party
In The Netherlands:
- Christian Democratic Appeal
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
In New Zealand
- New Zealand National Party
In Norway:
- Conservative Party of Norway
- Christian Democratic Party
- Liberal Party of Norway
- Progress Party
In Pakistan:
- The Pakistan Muslim League (N)
- The Pakistan Muslim League (Q)^{[dubious – discuss]}
- The Original Pakistan Muslim League
In the Philippines:
- The Nacionalista Party
In Poland:
- Civic Platform
In Portugal:
- The Social Democratic Party
In Romania:
- Democratic Liberal Party
- National Liberal Party
In Russia:
- Union of Right Forces
In Serbia:
- Democratic Party of Serbia
In Singapore
- People's Action Party
In Slovakia:
- Slovak Democratic and Christian Union - Democratic Party
- Christian Democratic Movement
In Slovenia:
- Slovenian Democratic Party
- Slovenian People's Party
- New Slovenia
In Spain:
- People's Party
In Sri Lanka:
- United National Party
In Sweden:
- The Alliance for Sweden coalition including:
In Switzerland:
- Swiss People's Party^{[dubious – discuss]}
- Christian Democratic People's Party
- Free Democratic Party of Switzerland
In Turkey:
- Democratic Party^{[dubious – discuss]}
- Justice and Development Party
- Motherland Party
- Young Party
In the United Kingdom:
- The Conservative Party
- Democratic Unionist Party^{[dubious – discuss]}
- Ulster Unionist Party
In the United States:
- Republican Party
- New Democrats ^[1]
In Uruguay:
- National Party

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^ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/us/politics/30dems.html |accessdate=2009-10-12

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[edit] Ideological definition of the centre-right

[edit] Examples of centre-right parties

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