Union for a Popular Majority
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Union for a Popular Movement
Union pour un mouvement populaire |
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| President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Vice President | Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet |
| General Secretary | Laurent Wauquiez |
| Founded | 17 November 2002 |
| Dissolved | 30 May 2015 |
| Merger of | RPR, DL, PPDF |
| Preceded by | Rally for the Republic |
| Succeeded by | The Republicans |
| Headquarters | 238, rue de Vaugirard 75015 Paris Cedex 15 |
| Membership (2014) | 143,000 |
| Ideology |
Neo-Gaullism Liberal conservatism Christian democracy |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| European affiliation | European People's Party |
| International affiliation |
Centrist Democrat International, International Democrat Union |
| European Parliament group | European People's Party |
| Colours | Blue, white, red |
| Website | |
| "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 May 2015. | |
The Union for a Popular Movement (French: Union pour un mouvement populaire French pronunciation: [ynjɔ̃ puʁ œ̃ muvmɑ̃ pɔpylɛʁ]; UMP French pronunciation: [y.ɛmpe]) was a centre-rightpolitical party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Socialist Party (PS). The UMP was formed in 2002 as a merger of several centre-right parties under the leadership of President Jacques Chirac. In May 2015, the party was renamed and succeeded by The Republicans (Les Républicains).
Nicolas Sarkozy, then the president of the UMP, was elected President of France in the 2007 presidential election, but was defeated by PS candidate François Hollande in a run-off five years later. After the November 2012 party congress, the UMP experienced internal fractioning and was plagued by monetary scandals which forced its president, Jean-François Copé, to resign. After his re-election as UMP president in November 2014, Sarkozy put forward an amendment to change the name of the party into The Republicans, which was approved and came into effect on 30 May 2015.
The UMP enjoyed an absolute majority in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2012 and was a member of the European People's Party (EPP), the Centrist Democrat International (CDI) and the International Democrat Union (IDU).
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