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Even the Centre Party, a member of the centre-right coalition, seems to be warming to the idea.

True, as a child of communist East Germany, she is something of an outsider as far as the German centre-right establishment goes.

The party appears to have lost out to a breakaway centre-right grouping and a new Green party.

Yet in early October, the EPP and PES agreed to divide the two top jobs between them, with the centre-right getting the president's post.

Five months into his term, his centre-right coalition looks solid, and he himself exudes an air of confidence.

Both the centre-right, which lost its majority but stayed in power, and the left-wing opposition, vowed to have nothing to do with it.

Rallies in favour of the new abortion law were just as large, though, and a centre-right government would be unlikely to change it.

Peter Saunders of Policy Exchange, a centre-right think-tank in London, thinks the book's statistical claims are mostly bunk.

More often than not, the big parties are unable to form politically coherent "centre-right" or "centre-left" coalitions.

In courting pro-privacy voters, the centre-right tries to make it seem that the menace is data collection by business, not by the state.

This time the centre-right government wants to save money by scrapping a pricey early-retirement scheme and raising the pension age.

The centre-right Alliance thinks it has a good chance of winning the next presidential election.

Judging by his recent declarations, the centre-right Mr Sarkozy has taken a decidedly leftward turn.

A victory for him would make Mr Tusk's efforts to consolidate the centre-right of the Polish political spectrum start to look unstoppable.

Exit polls in Portugal suggest the centre-right opposition Social Democrats have won the general election.

In terms of the share of the vote, the July poll actually gives the centre-right parties a slender majority of votes.

And yet a moderate centre-right party won this month's election.

Among Tory fans, in contrast, Mr Clegg is hailed as a man whose destiny is to re-draw the political map on the centre-right.

The democratic centre-right vote added up to 44%, but was fatally split between a trio of candidates.

Jean-Pierre Grand, a centre-right MP, warned that internationally, France would be seen as joining "an American war machine" .

Those who seek social progress cannot be a party of the centre-left or the centre-right.

The four-year savings plan was approved after two days of intense negotiations between the partners in the ruling centre-right coalition.

Mr Tusk's efforts to consolidate the centre-right of the Polish political spectrum are starting to look unstoppable.

Mr Barroso is from the centre-right, and his camp wanted a vote in July with a broad base of support.

On other issues, too, there is an overlap between the views of the centre-right and those of the church.

This week, Mr Prodi won a majority thanks to support from unelected life senators and from rebels within the centre-right opposition.

With an election scheduled for November 26th, John Key, prime minister of the centre-right coalition government, will be relieved.

The European People's Party, the centre-right group in the European Parliament, has called for a broader inquiry.

With nearly all the votes counted from the parliamentary elections in Hungary, the centre-right party Fidesz has won a landslide victory.

Yet the centre-right has made welfare payments less generous, cut taxes for the lower-paid and trimmed the numbers on sickness benefit.

One of their new partners is a mainstream centre-right party from the Czech Republic.

Her centre-right coalition has disappointed even loyal advocates in the business community, and delivered hardly any reforms.

Elections in New Zealand returned the incumbent centre-right National Party to power. It will form a coalition. See article.

A Green party that teams up with the centre-right in the states may not be quite so ferocious in opposition at federal level.

Arguably, the biggest winners were the pan-European parties that unite politicians from Europe's centre-right and centre-left.

Chancellor Angela Merkel speaking in Berlin urged undecided voters to support her centre-right Christian Democrats.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the centre-right French president, by contrast, has tempered his criticisms of the US role.

But an even bigger challenge has been posed to the political projects of western governments of the centre left and centre right.

If Europe's premier green party made a deal with the centre-right, that might leave the centre-left feeling lonelier than ever.

Hungary's parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's centre-right Fidesz party, adopted the new citizenship law last May.

But it soon became clear that Blair had no support on the left, let alone on the centre right.

Slovakia's centre-right government, elected with high hopes in June, is in trouble over this.

The centre-right Angela Merkel has just won the German election.

Country A is governed from the right or centre-right: fiscal conservatism, free trade and private pensions give the game away.

Some suggest that the new coalition represents a realignment of politics towards the centre-right.

Moreover, Mr Kirchner used his control of public spending to take over Peronism and sideline its centre-right faction.

After all, liberal and centre-right politicians spent the recent European elections calling each other dangerous and wrongheaded.

But most MEPs, especially on the centre-right, want the new group to fall apart and are hoping to pick them off one by one.

Such talk has delighted European socialists, who have found unlikely common cause with the centre-right president.

A Social Democrat, he was also expected to build bridges to Mrs Kosor, who comes from the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).

Several dozen legislators from the main centre-right opposition party join the demonstration, which is backed by Roman Catholic bishops.

EVEN its supporters cannot claim that Germany's centre-right government has got off to an impressive start.

he is currently haggling over his price for supporting a centre-right coalition government.

With 92 seats in parliament, her left-wing coalition will enjoy only a slim majority over the centre-right's 87.

Spain's general election was won by the opposition centre-right People's Party, led by Mariano Rajoy.

There has been a centre-right government, until recently, which increased the government's share of GDP from 44 per cent to 52 per cent.

Both Ms Royal and her main centre-right rival, Nicolas Sarkozy, say they stand for a break with the past.

Greece's centre-right opposition has demanded Prime Minister George Papandreou resign.

Meanwhile, the options open to the centre-right parties appear to be more limited.

This is not to say centre-right incumbents are in good shape.

Both Mr Berisha's centre-right Democratic Party and Mr Rama's Socialists have alliances with smaller parties.

SEBASTIAN PINERA, a business tycoon representing a centre-right party, is the new president of Chile.

The centre-right opposition People's Party, which challenged the Catalan charter in court, has long felt so.

Were the menfolk to make the decision, the incumbent centre-right coalition would win a fourth consecutive term.

Fellow centre-right EU leaders last week put pressure on him. He resisted.

Dominique de Villepin, a former prime minister of France, launched a new centre-right political party.

Most EU leaders praised Sweden's centre-right government for its competent stewardship.

In fact the centre-right coalitions of Sweden and Denmark, unlike their counterpart in Britain, are eager to adopt the euro.

His Liberal allies now hope to form a government with Mr Basescu's centre-right Democrats.

Bulgaria's election was decisively won by the centre-right opposition.

The report was quickly rejected as wrong by several officials in Merkel's centre-right coalition.

This centre-right nation still resonates to it.

But McCain should be hammering on the far left versus centre-right argument.

Portugal's general election was won by the centre-right Social Democrats.

now another tough-talking centre-right party has won in Portugal (see article).

The new government will be a coalition of four centre-right parties, probably led by Iveta Radicova, a former sociology professor.

The centre-right Fidesz won a resounding victory in the second round of voting in Hungary's general election.

The election is expected to return the centre-right government voted in four years ago.

The centre-right's periods in power coincided with economic crises.

In Poland, the governing centre-right party is the Civic Platform.

He gained 61% of the vote in a run-off ballot, against 39% for Geraldo Alckmin, his centre-right opponent.

The centre-right has a particular responsibility here.

Power in Europe belongs to the centre-right.

If the centre-right could win over half the waverers, it could grab three to four percentage points.

Some on the centre-right are now more conservative in that regard.

Edouard Balladur, a former centre-right prime minister, said that the government was "taking a risk" .

In the past the centre-right has suffered from being split into four warring parties.

Jean Arthuis, a former centre-right finance minister, called the appointment "extremely shocking" .

Ms Merkel herself has been fuzzy, hoping to woo voters who like her but not her centre-right party.

The centre-right government of Mikulas Dzurinda narrowly lost office in 2006.

This 4-star luxury hotel is located in the historical centre, right in front of St. Mary Major Basilica.

Possible future targets included a house owned, but no longer lived in, by the former centre-right prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.

First, the centre-right still holds sway in some places, such as Mexico, Colombia and Peru.

But on domestic policy, she should work well with the centre-right coalition government that took office last year.

One reason there are no big far-right parties in the Baltics is that they have a harder centre-right.

The centre-right candidate takes a calculated risk in London

A good result for the centre-right, a bad one for the main opposition parties