Centre-right
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The centre-right 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, private property rights and the existence of the welfare state in some form. Such a definition generally includes political parties that base their ideology and policies upon Conservatism and economic liberalism.
However, 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. Centre-right parties often ground themselves in traditional values; 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 Freedom Party of Austria, the Danish People's Party, and the Law and Justice (PiS) party in Poland.[citation needed] 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 Argentina:
- In Australia:
- The Coalition including:
- 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:
- In Brazil:
- In Canada:
- In the Republic of China:
- The Pan-Blue Coalition including:
- In Chile:
- In Costa Rica:
- In The Czech Republic:
- In Denmark:
- In the European Parliament:
- In Finland:
- In France:
- In Germany:
- In Ghana:
- In Greece:
- In Hungary:
- In Iceland:
- In India
- In Ireland:
- In Israel
- In Italy:
- In Japan:
- In Republic of Korea
- In Luxembourg:
- In Macedonia:
- In The Netherlands:
- In New Zealand
- In Norway:
- In Pakistan:
- The Pakistan Muslim League (N)
- The Pakistan Muslim League (Q)
- The Original Pakistan Muslim League
- In the Philippines:
- In Portugal:
- In Romania:
- In Russia:
- In Serbia:
- In Singapore
- In Slovakia:
- In Slovenia:
- In Spain:
- In Sri Lanka:
- In Sweden:
- The Alliance for Sweden coalition including:
- In Switzerland:
- In Turkey:
- In the United Kingdom:
- In the United States:
- In Uruguay:
