sentences:  The Centrists
  
  The Centrists (, LC), formerly known as New Centre ("Nouveau Centre", NC) and European Social Liberal Party ("Parti Social Libéral Européen", PSLE), is a centre-right political party in France formed by the members of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) – including 18 of the 29 members of the UDF in the National Assembly) – who did not agree with François Bayrou's decision to found the Democratic Movement (MoDem) and wanted to support the newly elected president Nicolas Sarkozy, continuing the UDF-Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) alliance.The party was founded on 29 May 2007 during a press conference and renamed on 11 December 2016.