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I am happy to see you again for this weekend meeting.
An interview with Alain Juppé encourages me to come back to the circumstances of the creation of the UMP and to debunk a legend making the unified party of the right a response to April 21, 2002.
UMP: to restore a truth
Member of the Constitutional Council, Alain Juppé is now bound by a duty of reserve which prohibits him from intervening in the current political debate.
But this November 17, 2022 marks an anniversary that concerns him first and foremost.
Twenty years ago, at Le Bourget, the UMP – Union for a Popular Movement – of which he became the first president.
“After the shock of the qualification of Jean-Marie Le Pen”
In
Le Parisien
, this Friday he returns to the circumstances of the creation of this party.
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After the shock of the qualification of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election and with a still powerful left, we could see that it was absolutely necessary to regroup the forces of the RPR and the UDF
", says- he.
This interpretation has become the vulgate of history…
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