An African attempt to mediate in Burundi to save a centrist, ethnically mixed government appeared a few months ago to have some chance of success.

His centrist, cautious government was characterised by conservative financial management and the encouragement of market forces, and a "tough on crime" policy.

A centrist Liberal government is about to be replaced, if the polls are correct, by a centrist Conservative one.

Until an amnesty law is enacted and a centrist government is in place, they say, the Haitian military will never step down.

On February 10, 1954, Scelba formed a new centrist government with a thin majority.

Mr. Yushchenko failed to rally political support around a new, centrist government.

Suárez's centrist government instituted democratic reforms, and his coalition won the 1979 elections under the new constitution.

That is a bittersweet achievement for a President whose ambition was to spawn a long line of centrist governments.

Former communists dominated politics until 1996 when a centrist government came to power.

The British public elected what they want to be a Tory version of a centrist government, Blair claims.