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Woerth founded the "club de la boussole", a group of UMP députés, and is a member of the Réformateurs, a liberal trend within the UMP.
Woerth was the Minister for the Budget, Public Accounts and the Civil Service from 2007 until 2010, in the government of Prime MinisterFrançois Fillon.[4] In this capacity, he oversaw French authorities obtaining Swiss bank account data amid a push to catch tax cheats.[5]
Together with Benjamin Dirx, Woerth published a non-legally binding report in 2019 which garnered international attention for its recommendations on preventing short-sellers and activists from unfairly destabilising French corporates. These included widening the disclosures of short positions to derivatives instruments, pushing for more transparency around the borrowing and lending of stock, and investigating whether market functions are jeopardised once short selling reaches a certain volume of shares.[12][13]
On 5 July 2010, following its investigations on the Liliane Bettencourt and Éric Woerth political controversy, the online newspaper Mediapart revealed a report where Claire Thibout, an ex-accountant working for Liliane Bettencourt, accused Nicolas Sarkozy and Woerth of receiving illegal campaign donations in 2007, in cash.[18][19] The Canard enchaîné and Marianne weeklies later revealed that Woerth authorized the sale of the Compiegne racetrack to a group with close connections to the UMP, for a very low price and through an improper procedure.[20] He was placed under formal investigation by the Cour de Justice de la République for that sale. All charges against him were dismissed in 2015.[21][circular reference]