 In addition to his parliamentary work, Woerth was the treasurer of the UMP until he resigned in July 2010.Woerth was state secretary for state reform in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin from 2004 to 2005.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.