Liaison Committee for the Presidential Majority


The Liaison Committee for the Presidential Majority is a structure initiated by Nicolas Sarkozy to coordinate the political parties that support his action.
It was officially established by François Fillon on June 30, 2009 and is led by Jean-Claude Gaudin, member of the national executive of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Creation

On April 9, 2008, following the municipal and cantonal elections of 2008, the President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, announced the creation of a liaison committee to strengthen ties within the majority, intensify the level of work between the components and prepare for future elections.
This committee would be composed of the main political leaders of the presidential majority: Patrick Devedjian, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Jean-Claude Gaudin, Bernard Accoyer, Christian Poncelet, Henri de Raincourt, Xavier Bertrand, Christine Boutin, Michèle Alliot-Marie, Jean-Louis Borloo, Hervé Morin, François Sauvadet, Michel Mercier, Jean-Marie Cavada, Jean-Marie Bockel and Eric Besson.
Without significant business since its inception, the committee became formally structured as a result of the 2009 European elections during which the lists of the presidential majority came first. It was inaugurated by Prime Minister François Fillon on June 30, 2009 on the occasion of the inauguration of its offices.

Party members

After meeting informally since January 2009 and taking part in the preparation of the presidential majority's lists ahead of the European elections in June, the committee aims to prepare the forthcoming elections, most notably the regional elections in 2010.
According to François Fillon, the Committee will also be "a laboratory of ideas, a place of confrontation between different projects that represent the broadest diversity possible in French society."

Organization

The committee consists of about twenty people who will meet once a month. It is chaired by Jean-Claude Gaudin.