The Rally for the Republic was a conservative political party in France, founded on 5 December 1976 and dissolved on 21 September 2002. It was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 and was the heir of Charles de Gaulle's Union of Democrats for the Republic party, holding a center-right political stance. The party defended its Gaullist doctrine during Valery Giscard d'Estaing's presidency from 1976 to 1981, but it abandoned the doctrine during its opposition to Francois Mitterrand's Socialist Party of France goverment from 1981 to 1995. From 1995 to 2002, it was the presidential party under Chirac, and it merged into the Union for a Popular Movement in 2002 under Chirac's watch.
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