20 years ago, the right put the ball in the center by creating the UMP

“I liked the UMP, it was the time when we won…” smiles an LR deputy. However, no need to look in LR’s diary for an event on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the UMP, this Thursday, November 17. “I didn’t even know it was 20 years, we don’t feel connected to this story,” squeaks a part of the Republicans of the new generation. However, when it was created by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2015, LR wanted to be the direct heiress of the Union for a Popular Movement, the great alliance of the Gaullist right of the RPR and the centrists of the UDF. This November 17, 2002, at the podium of the founding congress of Le Bourget, Alain Juppé, who will be the first president, Jean-Claude Gaudin (from Liberal Democracy) and Philippe Douste-Blazy (UDF) hug each other. The three have since left the shore to get closer to that of Macronism…