UDI and the Democratic Movement form a short-lived alliance named The Alternative. 2015: The UMP is transformed into The Republicans (LR). 2016: The UDI joins the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. The NC is transformed into The Centrists (LC), which continues to be part of the UDI. 2017: A moderate faction of LR forms Agir. 2021: Centre-right politicians form Horizons. 2021: Agir and Horizons join the ⇒ LREM-led Ensemble Citoyens. The Radical tradition 1901: The Radicals organise themselves in the Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (Rad). 1926: Dissident Radicals form the Independent Radicals (RI), later Independent Radical Party (PRI). 1946: The Radicals, along with the PRI, the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR) and minor parties, form the Rally of Left Republicans (RGR). 1956: The Radicals and the other components of the RGR join forces with the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), however some dissidents transformed the RGR into a full-fledged party and other Radical dissidents from the Republican Centre (CR). 1959: The RGR merges into the Gaullist Union for the New Republic (UNR). 1961: Pierre Mendès France, a leading Radical and former Prime Minister, joins the Unified Socialist Party (PSU). 1972: A left-wing faction forms the Movement of Left Radicals (MRG). 1978: The Rad becomes an affiliated member of the centrist UDF. 1996: The MRG is renamed Radical-Socialist Party (PRS). 1996: The PRS is renamed Radical Party of the Left (PRG). 2002: The Rad leaves the UDF and becomes an affiliated member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). 2011: The Rad cuts its ties with the UMP and joins The Alliance. 2012: The Rad is, along with other parties (see above), a founding member of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI). 2017: The Rad and the PRG are merged into the Radical Movement (MR). 2017: A group of PRG members founded The Radicals of the Left (LRG). 2019: A group of former members of the PRG re-form the PRG as an independent party. Classical liberals 2006: A group of classical liberals establish the Liberal Alternative (AL). 2008: A group of dissidents leaves the AL and launches the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD). 2012: The PLD joins the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI). Democratic Movement 2007: The Democratic Movement (MoDem) is formed by François Bayrou, until then leader of the Union for French Democracy (which has suffered the split of