Union pour un Mouvement Populaire
Also known as UMP, Union pour la majorité présidentielle
2002–2015 centre-right political party in France
AI overview
The Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) was a centre-right political party in France that existed from 2002 to 2015. It represented conservative political interests during a significant period of French politics, when centre-right parties competed with socialist and other leftist parties for influence in the country's government.
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Key facts
- Abbreviation
- UMP
- President
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Vice president
- Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet
- General secretary
- Laurent Wauquiez
- Founder
- Jacques Chirac
- Founded
- 23 April 2002 ; 24 years ago ( 2002-04-23 )
- Dissolved
- 30 May 2015 ; 11 years ago ( 2015-05-30 )
- Merger of
- Rally for the Republic , Liberal Democracy
- Succeeded by
- The Republicans
- Headquarters
- 238, rue de Vaugirard 75015 Paris Cedex 15
- Membership 2014
- 143,000
- Ideology
- Neo-Gaullism , Liberal conservatism , Christian democracy