Hervé Morin
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| Assumed office 18 May 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | François Fillon |
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| Preceded by | Michèle Alliot-Marie |
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| Born | August 17, 1961 Pont-Audemer, France |
| Political party | UDF, New Centre |
Hervé Morin (born 17 August 1961 in Pont-Audemer, Eure) is a French politician and the French Minister of Defence.
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[edit] Member of National Assembly
He was elected as a deputy in the French National Assembly on June 16, 2002, in the 3rd constituency of Eure, Normandy. He was the president of the group UDF in the National Assembly. After the UDF's candidate for the 2007 presidential election, François Bayrou, didn't make it to the 2nd round, he hinted that he attempted to create an alliance with the Socialist Party and decided to found a new political party: the Democratic Movement (or MoDem). Consequently, Morin, who is of the center-right and an ally of the presidential election's winner, Nicolas Sarkozy, made it an organisation within the presidential majority in the National Assembly. It is now called New Centre and he is the leader.
After the creation of the UMP, he took the presidency of the UDF group at the National Assembly, from 2002 to 2007. While Morin was joining the government as minister of defense in July 2007, Marc Vampa New Centre replaced him as deputy.
[edit] Political career
Governmental functions
Minister of Defense : Since 2007
Electoral mandates
National Assembly of France
Member of the National Assembly of France for Eure : 1998-2007 (Became minister in 2007). Elected in 1998, reelected in 2002, 2007.
General Council
General councillor of Eure : 1992-2004. Reelected in 1998.
Regional Council
Regional councillor of Haute-Normandie : Since 2004.
Municipal Council
Mayor of Epaignes : Since 1995. Reelected in 2001, 2008.
Municipal councillor of Epaignes : Since 1989. Reelected in 1995, 2001, 2008.
Community of communes Council
President of the Communauté de communes of Canton de Cormeilles : Since 2001. Reelected in 2008.
Member of the Communauté de communes of Canton de Cormeilles : Since 2001. Reelected in 2008.
[edit] Personal life
He is married to Catherine Broussot-Morin, a lawyer with whom he has two 12-year-old twin sons.
His political role models are Charles de Gaulle and Pierre Mendès-France.
All his grandparents were Norman farmers (his maternal grandfather, André Cardine, was also the mayor of Fatouville-Grestain for 30 years) and he wanted to take over the family farm when he was younger but his father, owner of a masonry firm, opposed it so he pursued studies first in Caen and then in Paris instead.
Hervé Morin supports the reunification of both Normandies (a cause for which he created an association in 2000), a pledge he made on 26 November 2006 in Épaignes, the city where he grew up and of which he had been the mayor since 1995.
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hervé Morin |
- (French) Parliamentary page
- (French) Hervé Morin's official site
- (French) Hervé Morin's blog
- (French) Hervé Morin Homme d'Etat
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Minister of Defence 2007–present |
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