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2 unusual facts about National Centre of Independents and Peasants


National Centre of Independents and Peasants

As the leading right-wing during the Fourth Republic, it won around 14% of the vote in 1951 and 1956 and participated in Third Force government coalitions, taking a major role in governments at the beginning of the 1950s.

The CNI was founded in January 1949 with the aim of uniting centre-right and right-wing parliamentarians, dispersed between a plethora of parties such as the Republican Party of Liberty and other modérés (moderates).


Jérôme Rivière

He represented Alpes Maritimes' 1st constituency from 2002 to 2007 as a member of the UMP, part first of The Free Right faction and then the National Centre of Independents and Peasants, a party formerly affiliated with the UMP.


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