The Reformist Movement (French: Mouvement réformateur, MR) was a French centrist political alliance created in 1971 by the Radical Party (PR) led by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and the Christian-democratic Democratic Centre (CD) headed by Jean Lecanuet.
[1] The rivalry of the two main parties and its leaders Lecanuet and Servan-Schreiber destabilised the alliance, its components remained largely independent.
Thanks to withdrawal agreements with the right-wing parties, however, the Reformist Movement succeeded in forming a parliamentary group of 30 members and 4 affiliated, called the "Social Democratic Reformers" (Réformateurs démocrates sociaux, RDS).
One year later, the Reformist Movement's components supported the winning candidacy of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, leader of the conservative-liberal Independent Republicans, at the 1974 presidential election.
In 1978, the constituent parties of the former Reformist Movement, together with Giscard d'Estaing's Independent Republicans, formed the centre-right Union for French Democracy (UDF).