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The Union for a Popular Movement ( , UMP) is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party. The UMP was founded in 2002 as a merger of several centre-right parties under President Jacques Chirac. Its current leader Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of France in 2007, and the party enjoys an absolute majority in the National Assembly and a plurality in the Senate. 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). |