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Reformist Centre, or Reformist centre, is a political term used in various countries around the world to define various kinds of political thought, but always connected with the centre, moderation and social reformism. ==Use of Reformist Centre by the Spanish People's Party== The Spanish People's Party is the main political force to use the term Reformist centre. Reformist Centre is used by the People's Party for defining itself ideologically since the second half of the 1990s, with the intention of including all the ideologies that it affirms to have in its middle: right, conservatism, Christian democracy, and liberalism. According to the article 2 (Ideology), of the status of the People's Party: The People's Party defines itself as a political formation of the reformist centre to the service of the general interests of Spain, which has the person as the axis of its political action and social progress as one of its objectives. With clear European vocation and inspiration in the values of freedom, democracy, tolerance and Christian humanism of western tradition, () defends the rights of the human being and its inherent rights and liberties; it secures democracy and the rule of law as the basis of social living and coexistence in freedom; it promotes, inside a market economy, territorial solidarity, modernisation and social cohesion as well as equal opportunity and the lead role of society through the participation of the citizens in political life; it advocates for an international community founded in peace and universal respect of the human rights.〔(Estatutos del XVI Congreso (Statutes of the 16th Congress) ) (''Spanish''), page 5〕 This move on Aznar to use this term is frequently accused of simple marketing of ideas,〔(Charlemagne, Jose Maria Aznar, Spain’s blinkered prime minister, Sep 13th 2001 )〕 use of an ambiguous term or of being just a right-wing/centre-right answer to social democrat/social liberal Third Way, trying to give a new moderate and centrist image to the rightist PP, without actually moving it to the centre (Javier Arenas described their claim to being centre as '(...) nor equidistance between right and left, nor the intermediate zone between liberalism and extreme socialism. It is an attitude of openness contrary to sectarianism'),〔(The politics of contemporary Spain, Sebastián Balfour, p. 152 )〕 instead of an actual re-ideologisation, adopting some Christian democratic concepts (even inspiring its 1989 program on the EPP's program) without actually adopting the ideology,〔(Christian democratic parties in Europe since the end of the Cold War, Steven Van Hecke, Emmanuel Gerard, p. 52 )〕 not losing votes from other ideologies in the party. Similar steps taken by the party include the adoption by the party, since 1996, of socialist II Republic politician Manuel Azaña's legacy.〔(España e los Hispanistas )〕〔(Batiburrillo: Manuel Azaña, enemigo número uno del liberalismo en la II República, Octubre 26, 2005 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reformist Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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