Centrism

Polls opened in France's presidential election on Sunday, with voters choosing between young centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a watershed vote for the country and Europe, reported AFP.

Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen have won the most votes in Sunday's presidential elections in France.

They have qualified for the runoff on May 7.

The wheel is turning and no one knows where the ball will stop, who will be the next president of France. This is the most important, and at the same time the most unpredictable, of elections. Not only for France but for Europe.

A lawmaker with To Potami on Tuesday announced his resignation, leaving the centrist party with six seats in the 300-seat House.

Larissa MP Constantinos Bargiotas wrote a letter to party leader Stavros Theodorakis expressing his disappointment with the party's "failure to produce policy."

ABV and Movement 21 will sign an official political agreement for the next parliamentary elections.

It is expected that the leaders of the two formations will be co-chairpersons of the future coalition.

France's divided Socialists picked left-winger Benoit Hamon as their presidential nominee on Jan. 29, in the latest twist of a roller-coaster election race that has seen conservative frontrunner Francois Fillon engulfed in scandal.

MP Ilchan Achmet announced Friday he was leaving the centrist To Potami party.

The move leaves the party of Stavros Theodorakis with seven deputies.

In a statement Achmet said he believed in the creation of a big centrist party informed by the values of democracy and social justice that would serve the need for reforms in the country.

The image that comes to mind when talking about parliament or politics in general old males squabbling over matters in technical jargon and finding ways to break their promises to the citizenry. Well that night change if Maria Alexandratou gets elected in the next Greek parliament whenever elections are held.

After the parliamentary debate on the 2017 budget, Union of Centrists leader Vasilis Leventis revealed that Greek elections would be held on January 22, 2017.

Iceland's four left-wing and center opposition parties announced on Oct. 27 that they had reached an agreement to form a coalition ahead of a snap election which they are on course to win.  

The anti-establishment Pirate Party, the Left-Green Movement, the Social Democrats, and the centrist Bright Future released a joint statement ahead of the Oct. 29 poll.