Union for the New Republic
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- for the Guinean party see Union for the New Republic (Guinea)
The Union for the New Republic (French: L'Union pour la nouvelle République, UNR), was a French political party founded on 1 October 1958 that supported Charles de Gaulle in the French presidential election, 1958
[edit] History
The UNR won 206 of 579 seats in the November 1958 elections.
In 1962, the UNR grouped with the Gaullist Democratic Union of Labour (French: Union démocratique du travail, UDT) to form the UNR-UDT. They won 233 seats out of 482, slightly less than an absolute majority. 35 Independent Republicans boosted their support.
In 1967, UNR candidates ran under the title Democratic Union of the Fifth Republic (Union démocratique pour la Ve République, UD-Ve), winning 200 out of 486 seats.
The UNR was renamed Union for the Defense of the Republic in 1968, and later Union of Democrats for the Republic in 1971.
[edit] Secretaries General of the UNR
- Roger Frey : 1958-1959
- Albin Chalandon : 1959
- Jacques Richard : 1959-1961
- Roger Dusseaulx : 1961-1962
- Louis Terrenoire : 1962
- Jacques Baumel : 1962-1967
- Robert Poujade : 1967-1969
[edit] See also
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