Hervé Morin

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Hervé Morin (2008)

Hervé Jacques Louis Morin (born August 17, 1961 in Pont-Audemer , Département Eure ) is a French politician ( Les Centristes , formerly UDF ) and has been President of the Regional Council of Normandy since 2016 . From May 18, 2007 to November 14, 2010, he was Minister of Defense in the government of François Fillon .

biography

Family, education and work

Hervé Morin comes from rural Normandy . Both grandfathers were farmers and mayors of small communities. His father ran a construction company and was a member of the Gaullist party. Morin first attended a public, then a private Lycée (high school) in Deauville , where he had to repeat the 10th and 11th grades. Morin originally wanted to take over the family's farm, but at the insistence of his father, he took up law studies , first at the University of Caen , then at the University of Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). He graduated with a master's degree (maîtrise) in public law and a diploma from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) .

From 1987 to 1993 Morin worked in the administration of the French National Assembly, then until 1995 he was technical advisor to the then Defense Minister François Léotard ( UDF - PR ). At the same time, he was a lecturer at the University of Paris V (Université Paris Descartes) from 1989 to 1995 .

Hervé Morin is married and has two children.

Early political career

Morin began his political career as a member of the liberal-conservative Parti républicain (PR), which was part of the bourgeois party alliance Union pour la démocratie française (UDF). He was elected to the municipal council of Épaignes in 1989 and became mayor of Épaignes in 1995 - he held this office until 2016. From 1992 to 2004 he was a member of the General Council of the Eure department . He also became President of the Communauté de communes (administrative community) of the canton of Cormeilles in 1996 and remained so until its dissolution at the end of 2016.

From 1995 to 1997 Morin acted as the “right hand man” of François Léotard , who in 1996 became UDF chairman. During this time he met François Bayrou , who in 1998 succeeded Léotard as chairman of the UDF and converted it from an alliance into a unified party ( Nouvelle UDF). In the time that followed, the two worked closely together.

In 1998 he became a member of the 3rd constituency of the Eure department in the French National Assembly for the first time . He moved up on November 29, 1998 for the resigned MP Ladislas Poniatowski and kept his seat until the end of the legislative period on June 18, 2002. In 1999, Morin was elected to the national secretariat (board of directors) of the UDF, from 2000 to 2007 he deputy party chairman. In the run-up to the 2002 presidential election , Morin was the campaign spokesman for François Bayrou. In contrast to numerous UDF mandate holders, he did not switch to the new center-right collecting party UMP of the re-elected President Jacques Chirac , but remained loyal to the Bayrous party, which is more firmly anchored in the political center. After his re-election as a member of the parliamentary elections in June 2002 , Morin was chairman of the UDF parliamentary group in the national assembly for the legislative period until May 2007. In the 2004 regional elections, he was also elected to the Haute-Normandie regional council, to which he was a member until 2010.

Morin also worked for the presidential election in April 2007 as Bayrous' closest loyal to his presidential campaign. After the first ballot, in which Bayrou was eliminated in third place with a surprisingly strong 18.6%, it came to a break. Bayrou refused to support the candidate of the center-right camp - in this case Nicolas Sarkozy - in the runoff election, as was customary with the UDF . Instead, he announced that the UDF would be converted into the Mouvement démocrate (MoDem), which would position itself as an independent center party and third force between the right and left bloc. Morin and the majority of the previous UDF MPs feared, however, that they would lose their parliamentary seats, which they owed to the previously usual election agreements with the UMP presidential party. He therefore called for a vote for Sarkozy in the second ballot.

Defense Minister and Nouveau Center

Defense Secretary Morin (right) with his American counterpart Robert Gates
Hervé Morin in January 2008

Sarkozy won the election and appointed Morin Minister of Defense in the Fillon I Cabinet on May 18, 2007 . Morin embodied - like Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner - the "opening" of his cabinet (for left and center politicians) promised by Nicolas Sarkozy. On May 29, 2007, Morin founded the Nouveau Center party (additional designation Parti social libéral européen ) together with the majority of the previous UDF MPs . It ran for parliamentary elections in June 2007 in alliance with Sarkozy's UMP: In some constituencies, the UMP waived its own candidates and instead supported the candidate from the Nouveau Center. The new party received 23 seats in the National Assembly, while Bayrous MoDem, which made no arrangements with other parties, only got three seats. Morin himself was also re-elected as a member of parliament in his constituency - with 50.05% in the first ballot.

When Fillon's cabinet reshuffle in November 2010, Morin and other NC ministers were dismissed from government. A month later, Morin was re-elected to the National Assembly. The party then began to distance itself from Sarkozy and the UMP; In January 2011, Morin announced a new cooperation with the "Alliance Centriste" founded by Jean Arthuis , another spin-off from the UDF that had previously been in the opposition. In addition, Morin announced that he would run as a candidate for the next presidential election. In March 2011 he was re-elected to the General Council of the Eure department, of which he was a member until April 2014.

In June 2011, Morins Nouveau Center founded the Alliance républicaine, écologiste et sociale (ARES), a small association, together with the Parti radical valoisien by Jean-Louis Borloo , the La Gauche Moderne by Jean-Marie Bockel and the Convention démocrate by Hervé de Charette Middle-class parties previously associated with the conservative UMP. After stagnating at one percent in polls, Morin renounced his candidacy for the 2012 presidential election and called for Sarkozy to be re-elected. In the general election in June 2012, however, Morin was confirmed as a MP. The new middle-class middle alliance Union des démocrates et indépendants (UDI) emerged from ARES in autumn 2012 , to which Morin and his Nouveau Center subsequently belonged. Morin applied for the chairmanship of the UDI in 2014, but lost the second ballot in November against Jean-Christophe Lagarde .

Regional President

In the regional election in the new Normandy region (fusion of Upper and Lower Normandy ), Morin was the leading candidate for a joint list of the center-right parties Les Républicains (successor party to the UMP), UDI, MoDem and CPNT . He won the election with 52.9% in the second ballot and thus became President of the Normandy Regional Council. He gave up his mayor's office in Épaignes, and in July 2016 he also resigned his seat in the National Assembly.

The Nouveau Center was renamed Les Centristes in December 2016 , but Morin remained party leader. In the area code to find a center-right candidate for the 2017 presidential election , Morin initially supported Bruno Le Maire , and François Fillon in the runoff election . From November 2017 onwards, Morin was President of the Federation of French Regions (Régions de France) for two years . In December 2017, Les Centristes left the UDI alliance because - unlike the majority of the UDI - they wanted to continue working with the conservative Républicains .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nathalie Raulin: Rire aux armes. In: Liberation , November 9, 2007.
  2. ↑ a b c Hervé Morin in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ a b c Hervé Morin. In: Le Point .
  4. ↑ Michaela Wiegel: Bayrou promises "resistance" against Sarkozy party. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine , May 10, 2007.
  5. ↑ Les garants de l'ouverture. In: L'Express , May 18, 2007.
  6. ↑ Wiener Zeitung , January 28, 2011. New civil union  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wienerzeitung.at  
  7. ^ Pour Borloo, "la machine est lancée". In: Le Journal du Dimanche , June 15, 2011.
  8. ↑ Les cadres du Nouveau center lâchent Hervé Morin. France Inter, January 24, 2012.
  9. ^ Carl Meeus: Hervé Morin: "Pourquoi je renonce". In: Le Figaro , February 16, 2012.
  10. ^ "Les Centristes", nouveau nom du Nouveau Center d'Hervé Morin. In: Le Monde , December 11, 2016.
  11. ^ Juliette Mickiewicz: Hervé Morin apporte son soutien à François Fillon. In: Le Figaro , November 22, 2016.
  12. ↑ Gaël Vaillant: Après les radicaux, Hervé Morin et ses amis quittent l'UDI. In: Le Journal du Dimanche , December 16, 2017.
  13. ↑ Politique. Pourquoi les Centristes d'Hervé Morin ont-il quitté l'UDI? In: Ouest France , December 18, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Morin, Hervé
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morin, Hervé Jacques Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (UDF, NC), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Pont-Audemer , Eure department