After their defeat in the 1997 legislative election, the RPR and UDF created the Alliance for France in order to coordinate the actions of their parliamentary groups.
Pred volitvami 1993 sta gaullistično-konzervativni Zbor za Republiko (RPR) in centristična Zveza za francosko demokracijo (UDF) oblikovala volilno enotno listo Zvezo za Francijo.