The Centralist Party, more commonly known as the Centralists or CP are a political party in the German Empire lying in the Centre of the political spectrum. Founded in September 2009, they has been since then, the major opposition party in the Reichstag. They recently ran a failed election campaign in October 2009, where it lost the two seats it had gained in the last Reichstag election. The Centralist Party does not play any part, nor is it active, in The German Empire