National Centre of Independents and Peasants

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The National Center of Independents and Peasants (Centre National des Indépendants et Paysans, CNIP) was a liberal-conservative political party in France, founded in 1948 as National Centre of Independents. It was the heir of the French Republican tradition, so that many party members came from the Democratic Republican Alliance.

Antoine Pinay was its most popular figure, but also Paul Reynaud and René Coty were members of it. Between 1958 and 1962 CNIP was the second largest political party, although it lost its importance when Valéry Giscard d'Estaing founded the Independent Republicans in 1962.

The party was defeated in the general election of November 1962 after 109 of its deputies voted against Georges Pompidou's government in a confidence vote on October 5, 1962.

In 1965, he merged with the christian-democratic Popular Republican Movement to form the Democratic Centre. It re-became independent after 1968, but it is a marginal conservative group (sometimes with far right tendencies), now associate party of the Union for a Popular Movement.