Hervé de Charette (; born 30 July 1938 in Paris) is a French centrist politician. He is a descendant of the royalist military leader

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and of king

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. Member of the

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(UDF), he was elected deputy for the first time in 1986 as representative of the

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''département''. During the first

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, from 1986 to 1988, he served as Minister of Civil Service, then, during the second, from 1993 to 1995, as Minister of Housing. In the UDF, he remained faithful to the leader

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. Like him, and contrary to the most part of the UDF politicians, he supported the winning candidacy of

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in the 1995 presidential election and not that of Prime Minister

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. In this, after the campaign, he found and led the

Popular Party for French Democracy Democratic Convention (''Convention démocrate'', CD) is a centrist- liberal political party in France led by Hervé de Charette. It is the continuation of the Popular Party for French Democracy, established in 1995. The Popular Party for French ...

(PPDF), a component of the UDF, and served as

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until the defeat of the Presidential Majority in the 1997 legislative election. In 2002, he joined the

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(''Union pour un mouvement populaire'' or UMP). In December 2009, he left this party for the

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