The Union for a Popular Movement was a centre-right political 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 Identitaires, formerly the Bloc identitaire, is an Identitarian nationalist movement in France. Like the French New Right, scholars generally consider the movement far-right or sometimes as a syncretic mixture of multiple ideologies across the political spectrum.
Yvan Blot was a French conservative politician. A founding member of the GRECE, he was also the co-creator and president of the Club de l'Horloge.
Franck Riester is a French politician who has been serving as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex since 2020. A former member of The Republicans, he founded and currently leads the centre-right Agir party.
United Republic is a centre-right political party in France launched by Dominique de Villepin, a former Prime Minister, on 18 June 2010.
The National Centre of Independents and Peasants is a liberal-conservative and conservative-liberal political party in France, founded in 1951 by the merger of the National Centre of Independents with the Peasant Party and the Republican Party of Liberty.
The Fourth constituency for French residents overseas is one of eleven constituencies each electing one representative of French citizens overseas to the French National Assembly.
The Republicans group, formerly the Union for a Popular Movement group, is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of The Republicans (LR), formerly the Union for a Popular Movement.
The 2012 leadership election of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), a political party in France was held on 18 November 2012. It renewed the leadership structures of the UMP following Nicolas Sarkozy's defeat in the 2012 presidential election and the party's defeat in the subsequent legislative election. The disputed results led to the first open crisis in the UMP since its creation in 2002.
The Social Right is a recognized movement within the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). It was created as an informal club and think-tank by Laurent Wauquiez, mayor of Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) and a former cabinet minister.
Modern and Humanist France is a recognized movement within the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). It was created in August 2012 and it is led by Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Luc Chatel, Jean Leonetti and Marc Laffineur.
Gaullism, a way forward for France was a recognised movement within the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). It was created in 2012 to represent Gaullists within the party; it was led by Michèle Alliot-Marie, Roger Karoutchi, Henri Guaino and Patrick Ollier.
The Popular Right is a recognised movement within the National Rally (RN) since 2019, previously within the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and The Republicans (LR). It was founded in 2010 as the Collectif parlementaire de la Droite populaire, a caucus of UMP parliamentarians which included 26 members of the National Assembly. The Popular Right seeks to emphasise issues such as national identity, security and immigration. Its leader is Thierry Mariani, currently an MEP.
Sarkozysm (Sarkozysme) is the name commonly given to the policies and political agenda of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, including his presidential policies between 2007 and 2012. It can also refer to the supporters of Nicolas Sarkozy within the centre-right Les Republicains (LR).
Guillaume Peltier is a French politician, teacher and business leader who has represented the 2nd constituency of Loir-et-Cher in the National Assembly since 2017. He has also served in the Departmental Council of Loir-et-Cher for the canton of Chambord since 2021. Peltier is a former member of the National Front (FN) and former leader of its youth section. He led The Strong Right, a right-wing populist faction of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), similar to The Popular Right faction. Peltier was a founder of the pro-life student group Young Christian Action.
The Republicans is a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in France, largely inspired by the Gaullist tradition. The party was formed on 30 May 2015 from the renaming and refoundation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), which had been established in 2002 under the leadership of then President of France Jacques Chirac.
The Republicans held a presidential primary election, officially called the open primary of the right and centre, to select a candidate for the 2017 presidential election. It took place on 20 November 2016, with a runoff on 27 November since no candidate obtained at least 50% of the vote in the first round. It was the first time an open primary had been held for The Republicans or its predecessor parties.
A leadership election for the presidency of The Republicans (LR) was held on 10 December 2017, the first since the refoundation of the party in 2015, before which it was known as the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), and seventh overall including the UMP congresses.
Geoffroy Didier is a French lawyer and politician of the Republicans who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2017.
Aurélien Pradié is a French politician of Les Républicains (LR) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2017 French elections, representing Lot's 1st constituency. In addition to his work in parliament, he became Secretary-General of LR in 2019 after Christian Jacob became its chairman, making him the party's third highest-ranking politician.
