Hervé Morin

Hervé Morin ( born August 17, 1961 in Pont- Audemer, Eure ) is a French politician ( NC, formerly UDF). He was on May 18, 2007 to November 14, 2010 Minister of Defence in the government of François Fillon.

Biography

Family and Education

Hervé Morin is deeply rooted in the Normandy countryside. André Cardine, his maternal grandfather was a farmer and more than 30 years, Mayor of Fatouville -Grestain (Canton Beuzeville / Eure ); Farmer and his paternal grandfather was. His father, Jacques Morin, while operating a construction company, but his real passion was agriculture and animal breeding. Hervé Morin spent his childhood in Épaignes, a small community with a little more than 1 000 inhabitants approx. 11 km southwest of his birth town of Pont- Audemer located. Morin goes to school here, first to the Collège de Cormeilles, then to the lycée (high school ) École de Deauville and Jeanne d' Arc. Originally Hervé Morin has the intention to take over the farm family in Fatouville -Grestain, but his father urged him to take a different path. So he takes after graduation from law school, first at the Université de Caen Basse -Normandie, then at the Université Paris Descartes / Université Paris V on. He gets a diploma from the Institut d' études politiques de Paris ( IEP), a master's degree title ( Maîtrise ) of Public Law.

Political career

In 1998, he became the first deputy of the National Assembly as he prepares for the retiring MPs Ladislas Poniatowski in Parliament be succeeded (November 29, 1998 to June 18, 2002 ( end of the legislature ). During the elections to the French National Assembly on 9 and 16. selected in 3ème cirsonscription ( constituency ) of Eure, representing the UDF to the French Parliament, even after the establishment of the UMP in 2002, he remained - June 2002 Morin for the XII legislature (2007, 2002 ) -. . unlike many other party members leaving the UDF and UMP Join - Member of the UDF and the faction leaders in the French National Assembly.

From the 18th of May 2007, he was defense minister in the government of François Fillon. So Sarkozy thanked Hervé Morin that this came after the first round of the presidential election in which François Bayrou on 18.57 percent of the vote, the supporters of the center- candidates had largely closed out on his side. At the same time should Morin - as Bernard Kouchner - the promised Nicolas Sarkozy's " opening " of his cabinet symbolize ( for leftists and liberals ). In addition, the award of the ministerial post to Morin was obviously a measure that François Bayrou and the Party for the National Assembly elections on 10 and 17 June 2007 newly founded by him called " Mouvement Démocrate " ( " Democratic Movement ", MoDem ) the water should abgraben. Morin responded to the founding of the MoDem with the establishment of a new party called "Nouveau Centre ' ( " New Centre ", NC), which was to unite the right-wing liberal wing of the former UDF. On June 10, 2007, he was re-elected in his constituency as a Member of the National Assembly.

In a cabinet reshuffle Fillon end of 2010, Morin and other ministers who were members of the NC, dismissed from the government. The party began to distance himself from then Sarkozy and the UMP; In January 2011, Morin announced a new partnership with the " Alliance Centriste " founded by Jean Arthuis to, another spin-off from the UDF, which had previously been in opposition. In addition, Morin of going on to the French 2012 presidential election as the candidate announced.

Hervé Morin is married and has two children.