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The
Union for a Popular Movement (
Union pour un Mouvement Populaire, UMP) is a
centre-right French political party.
Founded in
2002, the party has an
absolute majority in the
National Assembly and the
Senate. Its candidate
Nicolas Sarkozy was elected
President of France in
2007. The UMP is a member of the
European People's Party (EPP), of the
Centrist Democrat International (CDI) and of the
International Democrat Union (IDU).
History
Since the
1980s, the political groups of the parliamentary right joined forces around the values of economic liberalism and the building of Europe. Their rivalries had contributed to their
1981 and
1988 electoral defeats. Some politicians advocated the formation of a confederation, a party.
Before the
1993 legislative election, the Gaullist-conservative
Rally for the Republic (RPR) and the centrist
Union for French Democracy (UDF) formed an electoral alliance, the
Union for France. But it was divided between the followers of
Jacques Chirac and the supporters of
Edouard Balladur. After their defeat of the
1997 legislative election, the right-wing parties created the Alliance for France.
Before the
2002 presidential campaign, the supporters of President
Chirac who were divided in three right-wing parliamentary parties, founded an association, named
Union on the Move (
Union en mouvement). After Chirac's re-election, in order to prepare the
legislative election, the
Union for the Presidential Majority (
Union pour la majorité présidentielle) was created. It was re-named
Union for a Popular Movement some months later, establishing the UMP as a permanent organization rather than simply as the umbrella organization for Jacques Chirac's supporters), the
Forum of Social Republicans,
Arise the Republic, the
National Centre of Independents, the
Rally for France and
Blue Ecologie are associate parties to UMP.
Major officeholders
Nicolas Sarkozy (President of the Republic)
François Fillon (Prime Minister)
Bernard Accoyer (President of the National Assembly)
Christian Poncelet (President of Senate)
Jean-Louis Debré (President of the Constitutional Council)
Leadership
Presidents
Alain Juppé (2002−2004)
Nicolas Sarkozy (2004−2007)
collegial leadership (2007−...)
Vice Presidents
Jean-Claude Gaudin (2002−...)
Jean-Pierre Raffarin (2007−...)
Pierre Méhaignerie (2007−...)
General Secretaries
Philippe Douste-Blazy (2002−2004)
Pierre Méhaignerie (2004−2007)
Patrick Devedjian (2007−...)Further Information
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