The Union for a Popular Movement (French: Union pour un Mouvement Populaire, UMP) is a centre-right political party in France, being one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party (PS). The UMP was formed in 2002 as a merger of several centre-right parties under President Jacques Chirac.
The party enjoys an absolute majority in the National Assembly, while the plurality in the Senate ...
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The Union for a Popular Movement (French: Union pour un Mouvement Populaire, UMP) is a centre-right political party in France, being one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party (PS). The UMP was formed in 2002 as a merger of several centre-right parties under President Jacques Chirac.
The party enjoys an absolute majority in the National Assembly, while the plurality in the Senate is held by the Socialists and their allies. Jean-François Copé is the party secretary-general. The UMP is a member of the European People's Party (EPP), the Centrist Democrat International (CDI) and the International Democrat Union (IDU).
The leader of the UMP, Nicolas Sarkozy, was elected President of France in the 2007 presidential election, but was defeated by Socialist François Hollande in a run-off five years later.
Since the 1980s, the political groups of the parliamentary right joined forces around the values of economic liberalism and...
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