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| February 2025 | Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced a new government consisting of 24 ministers, with the Lebanese Forces securing four ministerial positions: Youssef Rajji as Foreign Minister, Joe Saddi as Energy Minister, Charles Al-Hajj as Telecommunications Minister, and Joe Issa Al-Khoury as Industry Minister. |
| 2024 | MEP elections held for several Centre Group member parties across Nordic countries, including parties from Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. |
| 2024 | The party receives 5.78% of votes, maintaining its sixth-place position in the European Parliament elections. |
| 2024 | Fianna Fáil supports unsuccessful Irish constitutional referendums aimed at deleting a reference to women's domestic duties and broadening the definition of the family |
| 2024 | Fianna Fáil receives 356,794 votes (20.44%), placing second and increasing seats by 2 in the European Parliament election. |
| 2024 | Becomes the largest party in the Dáil and leads the formation of a new government. |
| 2024 | Civic Coalition achieved coalition governance in the Lower Silesian voivodeship, expanding its regional political influence. |
| December 2024 | Lebanese Forces celebrated the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, with party leader Samir Geagea publicly commenting that any post-Assad Syrian situation would be an improvement over the current regime. |
| April 2024 | Pascal Suleiman, Lebanese Forces coordinator in the Byblos District, was kidnapped by armed assailants. The next day, he was reported dead by the Lebanese Army, with his body allegedly taken to Syria. The party blamed Hezbollah and claimed it was a political murder. |
| 2023 | National parliamentary elections took place in Åland and Finland for Centre Group member parties. |
| 2023 | LLRA's member Waldemar Urban lost the Vilnius District Municipality mayor election to Social Democrats' Robert Duchniewicz, marking the first time since 1995 that LLRA lost this election. |
| 2023 | Achieved 57 seats in municipal councils after local elections, maintained 3 seats in the Seimas and 1 seat in the European Parliament. |
| 2023 | In parliamentary elections, Civic Coalition leader Donald Tusk celebrated a strong second-place finish, claiming a victory for democracy against the ruling Law and Justice party. |
| 2023 | Civic Coalition transitioned from opposition to coalition governance in the Świętokrzyskie voivodeship. |
| 2023 | Participated in the Polish parliamentary election as a coalition, positioning itself as a centre-right political alliance and presenting an alternative to the incumbent government. |
| October 29 2023 | Lebanese Forces held their first internal elections, with 31,000 eligible voters and 18,321 (58.9%) participating. Samir Geagea won the presidency by acclamation, and Georges Adwan was elected Vice President by acclamation. |
| August 6 2023 | Elias Hasrouni, former Lebanese Forces coordinator in Bint Jbeil, was found dead in an apparent crash site. Samir Geagea declared it an assassination and blamed Hezbollah, suggesting the murder was politically motivated. |
| August 2 2023 | MPs Melhem Riachi and Georges Okeis proposed legislation to legalize optional civil marriage in Lebanon, allowing couples to choose any municipality with at least 15 members for their marriage ceremony, with legal recognition for both Lebanese and non-Lebanese individuals. |
| June 12 2023 | The Central Electoral Commission of Lithuania stated that LLRA-KŠS indirectly bribed voters by giving gifts to children in the Vilnius District during the previous year's election. |
| May 2023 | Mateusz Morawiecki, the Prime Minister of Poland, awarded Stanisław Pieszko and Waldemar Tomaszewski with badges of honor for services to the Polish diaspora, causing controversy in Lithuanian media and political circles. |
| March 2023 | Civic Coalition renewed its pledge to recognize Silesian as a regional language. |
| 2022 | Sweden held a national election with the Centre Party in an opposition role. |
| 2022 | National parliamentary elections were conducted in Denmark and the Faroe Islands for Centre Group member parties. |
| 2022 |
Welfare state
Government expenditure on social security and welfare reached approximately 8.4 percent of GDP, covering health insurances, public hospitals, education, housing grants, financial transfers, public transportation benefits, unemployment support, and social pensions.
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| 2022 | The Lebanese Forces secured the most seats in parliamentary elections. Party leader Samir Geagea publicly pledged not to vote for long-time incumbent speaker Nabih Berri, citing corruption in Berri's political bloc. |
| 2022 | Lebanese Forces participated in general elections, presenting 18 direct members and allies across electoral districts. The party secured 19 seats, becoming the largest Christian-based party in parliament and forming the Strong Republic bloc with additional seats from allied parties. |
| 2022 | Friedrich Merz returns to lead the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag, succeeding Ralph Brinkhaus |
| 2022 | Civic Coalition transitioned from opposition to coalition governance in the Silesian voivodeship. |
| September 2022 | SDLP leader Colum Eastwood announced the end of the partnership with Fianna Fáil. |
| March 31 2022 | Jedziński encouraged Poland to leave NATO and the EU and create an alliance with Russia, which led to several prominent party politicians leaving the party. |
| 2021 | Norway's Centre Party participated in the national election, securing a position as a junior partner in the government. |
| 2021 | Greenland held national parliamentary elections for Centre Group member parties. |
| 2021 | Fidesz is expelled from or leaves the European People's Party (EPP), ending its 17-year membership in the Christian democratic organization. |
| 2021 | Experienced a significant electoral decline with Armin Laschet as their chancellor candidate, moving to opposition status with only 24.1% of the vote. |
| 2021 | In the federal elections, the CDU lost 7.9 percent and the CSU lost 1.0 percent of party list votes. |
| October 14 2021 | Samir Geagea was involved in controversial violent clashes in Beirut during a Hezbollah protest, resulting in at least seven deaths and over 30 injuries. Geagea was summoned by military intelligence but did not appear, and his supporters protested the summons. |
| May 2021 | A survey suggested a potential federal CSU could win at least 9 percent of votes, particularly in Eastern Germany. |
| February 22 2021 | Lebanese Forces Party MPs officially requested an international investigation into the Beirut port explosion by petitioning the UN Secretary-General through UN Special Coordinator Najat Rochdi. |
| 2020 | The party secures 4.97% of votes, ranking 7th, and wins 5 seats, returning to opposition status. |
| 2020 | LLRA scored 4.82% in the Lithuanian parliamentary election and did not qualify for the Thirteenth Seimas of Lithuania. |
| 2020 |
Economic progressivism
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren both seek the Democratic presidential nomination, further popularizing progressive economic policies.
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| 2020 | Fianna Fáil agreed with Fine Gael and the Green Party to enter an unprecedented coalition, with the party leaders rotating between Taoiseach and Tánaiste roles. |
| 2020 | Rafał Trzaskowski, representing the Civic Coalition, ran for president and secured 5,917,340 votes (30.5%) in the first round, advancing to the second round with 10,018,263 votes (49.0%) in the final round. |
| December 2020 | Ground-0 Relief Committee completed significant humanitarian efforts, including repairing 709 houses, assisting 5300 individuals, distributing 14000 food rations, and providing 150 scholarships to Beirut school students. |
| September 2020 | Tomaszewski and the LLRA fraction in Seimas did not participate in voting on a resolution regarding the illegal union of Russia and Belarus. |
| September 2020 | The CSU created online memberships for people outside Bavaria, expanding its potential membership base. |
| August 2020 | Tomaszewski stated that 'there is nothing worse than revolutions' around the time of the Belarusian protests. |
| August 6 2020 | Samir Geagea, Lebanese Forces Party's executive chairman, was the first politician to visit Beirut after the Beirut explosion and launched the Ground-0 relief committee under Dr. May Chidiac to support rebuilding efforts. |
| 2019 |
Welfare state
CHAS scheme was expanded to include a new green card that provides coverage for all Singaporeans regardless of household income, increasing subsidies for chronic and common illnesses and dentistry at privately owned clinics.
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| 2019 | Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL) participated in the parliamentary election, seeking representation in the Lithuanian parliament. |
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