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The Union for a Popular Movement (''Union pour un Mouvement Populaire'', UMP), is the main French Centre-right Political Party . The party has an Absolute Majority in the National Assembly and the Senate . 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 , 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 France politique - chronologie UMP . UMP was founded from the merger of the Gaullist-conservative Rally For The Republic (''Rassemblement pour la République'', RPR), the conservative-liberal Liberal Democracy (''Démocratie Libérale'', DL), and a sizeable portion of the centrist Union For French Democracy (''Union pour la Démocratie Française'', UDF), more precisely many Christian Democrats (such as Philippe Douste-Blazy and Jacques Barrot ), the social-liberal Radical Party and the centrist Popular Party For French Democracy (both associate parties to UDF until 2002). The party was thus born out of the meeting of four major French political traditions: Gaullism , Liberalism (Republicanism), Christian Democracy (Popularism) and Radicalism . As indicated by its initial name, the UMP generally supported the policies of President Jacques Chirac . However, in 2004 , the party showed increasing signs of independence. The unpopularity with the electorate of Jacques Chirac and Jean-Pierre Raffarin 's government led most members of the UMP to support Nicolas Sarkozy , a rival of Chirac. The party also publicly disapproved of Turkey 's proposed membership in the European Union , which Chirac had previously endorsed several times publicly. , France ]] The first president of the UMP, Alain Juppé , a close associate of Jacques Chirac , resigned on 15 July 2004 after being convicted of Political Corruption in January of the same year. On 29 November 2004 , Nicolas Sarkozy announced that he would officially take over the presidency of the UMP and resign his position as Finance Minister , ending months of speculation. In the 2004 French Regional Elections the UMP suffered a heavy blow, securing only 2 out of 22 regions in Metropolitan France and half of the departments. This led to the fall of the Jean-Pierre Raffarin government (2001-04), and to the formation of a new cabinet, presided by another UMP politician, Dominique De Villepin . On 22 April 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy won the plurality of votes in the first round of the 2007 Presidential Election . In the second round, he faced Socialist Candidate Ségolène Royal . On 6 May 2007 he won the Presidential election, garnering 53.06% of the vote. As a consequence, he resigned from the presidency of the UMP on 14 May 2007 , two days before becoming President of the French Republic. On 17 June , 2007 , in the Legislative Elections , UMP again gained a majority in the National Assembly, but less than expected following opinion polls. FACTIONS
Associate parties The , Arise The Republic , the National Centre Of Independents , the Rally For France and Blue Ecologie are associate parties to UMP. MAJOR OFFICEHOLDERS
LEADERSHIP Presidents
Vice-Presidents
General Secretaries
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