The Republican Party was a French right-wing political party founded in 1977. It replaced the National Federation of the Independent Republicans created by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who was President of France since 1974. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... This article needs to be updated. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ...

In 1978, the Republican Party allied with centrist groups to form the Union for French Democracy (Union pour la démocratie française or UDF), a confederation created in order to support President Giscard d'Estaing and couterbalanced the RPR preponderance over the right. The Union for French Democracy, also known by its French acronym UDF (Union pour la Démocratie Française), is a French centrist political party. ... Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard dEstaing (born February 2, 1926 in Koblenz, Germany) is a French politician who was President of the Republic from 1974 until 1981. ... In France the Gaullist Party is usually used to refer to the largest party professing to be Gaullist. ...

Until the split of the UDF confederation in 1998, the Republican Party was its liberal component, advocating economic liberalism. In 1997, it was replaced by Liberal Democracy (Démocratie libérale or DL), led by Alain Madelin. The liberal theory of economics is the theory of economics described by classical liberal authors such as Adam Smith or the French Physiocrats. ... Liberal Democracy (Démocratie Libérale, DL) was a French political party that advocated laissez-faire economics and whose leader was Alain Madelin. ... Alain Madelin in 2005 Alain Madelin (born March 26, 1946) is a French politician and a former minister of that country. ...