Hervé Morin

Hervé Morin
President of Normandy
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 January 2016
Member of the French National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 June 2012
Constituency	Eure 3rd
Leader of New Center
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 May 2007
Preceded by	First in office
French Minister of Defence
In office 18 May 2007 – 14 November 2010
President	Nicolas Sarkozy
Prime Minister	François Fillon
Preceded by	Michèle Alliot-Marie
Succeeded by	Alain Juppé (Defence and Veterans Affairs)
Personal details
Born	(1961-08-17) 17 August 1961 (age 55) Pont-Audemer, Normandy, (France)
Political party	New Centre (2007–present)
Other political affiliations	UDF (Before 2007)
Alma mater	University of Caen Pantheon-Assas University Sciences Po
Website	Official website

Hervé Morin (born 17 August 1961 in Pont-Audemer, Normandy) is a French politician, current President of Normandy. Leader of the New Center party, he was the Minister of Defence under President Nicolas Sarkozy.

He was elected as a representative to the French National Assembly on 16 June 2002, in the 3rd constituency of Eure, Normandy. He was the president of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) in the National Assembly. After the UDF's candidate for the 2007 presidential election, François Bayrou, didn't make it to the 2nd round, he hinted that he attempted to create an alliance with the Socialist Party and decided to found a new political party: the Democratic Movement (or MoDem). Consequently, Morin, who is of the center-right and an ally of the presidential election's winner, Nicolas Sarkozy, made it an organisation within the presidential majority in the National Assembly. It is now called New Centre and he is the leader.

After the creation of the UMP, he took the presidency of the UDF group at the National Assembly, from 2002 to 2007. While Morin was joining the government as minister of Defence in July 2007, Marc Vampa New Centre replaced him as representative.

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