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Political party in France
Popular Republican Union Union Populaire Républicaine
PresidentFrançois Asselineau
Founded25 March 2007
Headquarters15, rue Érard 75012 PARIS
Membership (2015)>7000
IdeologyEuroscepticism, souverainism
Political positionSyncretic
National Assembly0 / 577
Senate0 / 348
European Parliament0 / 74
Regional Councils0 / 1,880
General Councils0 / 4,108
Website
www.upr.fr

Popular Republican Union (Template:Lang-fr), is a French political party, founded in 2007 by François Asselineau. The ideology of the party is Eurosceptic, and seeks the withdrawal of France from the European Union, the euro and the NATO.

History

After leaving the and UMP (2006) and the Rally for an Independent and Sovereign France (RIF) where Asselineau was a member of the steering committee for 3 months, in 2007, for the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty signature, he created the Popular Republican Union (UPR).

Ideology

UPR runs on a anti-EU platform stating that all French policy decisions are made by an "unelected oligarchy, not French," leading to the political disaffection of the French public, and that the continued rule of the EU over European affairs will lead to a "global apartheid". UPR promotes that withdrawal from the European Union and the euro by the usage of TEU Article 50 as a first step to get France out of its current crisis by regaining capital, goods and person flow regulation control. For military sovereignty, UPR advocates France withdrawal from the NATO.

UPR also favors nationalisation of entities such as TF1, La Poste, Gaz de France, highways, water management and troubled banks.

Relationship with the media and Internet activism

In February 2012, François Asselineau and his party, UPR, claimed they were "barred from the major media" ("barrés des grands médias") and "banned from going on the air" ("interdits d'antenne") as " ideas are upsetting" (" discours dérange"). In 2014, UPR described itself as being "the most censored party in France".

On 23 April 2014, François Asselineau's party sent a registered letter to Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (Audiovisual Superior Council) to demand "urgent action regarding the mainstream broadcasting media to have them accept UPR at last in their broadcasts".

The "news blackout" that Asselineau allegedly had to deal with was criticized again after the 2014 European elections, as his party obtained slightly more votes than Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (0.41% vs 0.39%) without further attracting attention from the mainstream media.

In March 2012, Asselineau complained about the "censorship" he faced on French Misplaced Pages from which his article had been deleted several times for lack of renown. In February 2013, UPR complained about what it called "the ill treatment of François Asselineau and UPR on Misplaced Pages", with an extended report on the subject established by the "Groupe Wiki de l’UPR – Cybermilitantisme" (the "UPR Wiki Group- Internet activism").

Asselineau and his team are very active on the Internet: UPR claim to have developed "solely on the Internet" ("exclusivement en ligne") and bank above all on this activism to try and become notable. Rudy Reichstadt characterizes UPR as "a real phenomenon on the Internet", noting that it is "difficult to miss it when one is interested in the conspiracist circles" ("difficile de passer à côté lorsqu’on s’intéresse à la mouvance complotiste"). In 2012, UPR created the position of "national manager for Internet activism" ("responsable national au cybermilitantisme"), whose responsibility is to develop and coordinate the various people conducting such activism ("actions cybermilitantes").

However, there has been some backlash to this activism. fr [Laurent de Boissieu] mentions the harassment that "every journalist has had to deal with, one day or another, at the hands of some UPR activists". Laurent Ruquier likewise noted that he invited François Asselineau to fr [On n'est pas couché] because of incessant Twitter pressure. After the broadcast of this program, an article on the collaborative website of L'Obs (Le Plus) expressed doubts about the granting of speaking time to "this kind of conspiracist", while fr [Causeur] suggested that Laurent Ruquier had in fact invited Asselineau in order to ridicule his anti-European ideas.

Popular support and electoral record

UPR claims to be a growing party despite "the blacklisting from the national media" due to UPR's program. The movement has been developed exclusively online because of Asselineau's conferences that had been seen more than 2 Million times. They claim to be the most visited French political party website as evidenced by their Alexa rank.

In 2013, the university researcher, Jean-Yves Camus doubts the reality of membership figures

Date Membership Source
25 February 2015 >7000
21 May 2014 5000
3 March 2014 4200
24 September 2013 3300
10 June 2013 ≤3000
29 May 2013 2960
29 February 2012 ≈1000

Presidential

In January 2011, Asselineau announced his intention to run for the 2012 French presidential election for the UPR. He confirmed his candidacy in December 2011 during the national congress of the party. However, Asselineau was finally not among the ten candidates officially endorsed by the Constitutional council as he could muster only 17 out of the 500 signatures from elected politicians that are necessary to run for president.

Legislative

Following the Cahuzac affair and the resignation of Jérôme Cahuzac, Asselineau and Régis Chamagne decided to run for the legislative election in the Lot-et-Garonne's 3rd constituency. In response to charges that they were carpetbaggers—not being residents of the constituency—they responded that members of the National Assembly represent the whole nation, not a region. UPR sought to publicize its legislative program, to galvanize party members and to gain in notoriety thanks to the media exposure of this election. UPR failed to reach the second round, receiving less than one half of one percent of the vote.

European Parliament

The party participated in the 2014 European Parliament election. However, a limited budget restricted active campaign mailings to only thirty departments. The purpose was to introduce their program hoping to alert electors deceived from the current political system and gain in notoriety thanks to the media exposure. François Asselineau complained to CSA that the party did not have access to media and claimed that media's principle of equity was to expose parties that are already well-known. UPR scored 0.41% of votes cast for France and Asselineau scored 0.56% of votes cast in the Île-de-France constituency.

Departmental

UPR ran in the 2015 departmental elections with 14 lists out of the 2,054 cantons. They intended to alert electors notably on UPR's program and that the local situation is the consequence of national and international circumstances. They were hoping to score honorably.

See also

References

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  3. De Boissieu, Laurent. "Rassemblement pour l'indépendance et la souveraineté de la France (RIF)", France-politique.fr, 21 October 2011. Retrieved on 1 October 2013.
  4. Lopez, Julien and Zebaïr, Yannis. "Asselineau: La dictature de l'Europe", Bondy Blog, 28 October 2011. Retrieved on 1 October 2013.
  5. Page of the party on France Politique
  6. ^ Dupont, Isabelle. "Un petit candidat contre la grande Europe", Nord éclair, February 29, 2012. Retrieved on 1 October 2013
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  11. ^ Laure Daussy (24 September 2014). "Mais qui est François Asselineau, le souverainiste sans page Misplaced Pages ?". Arrêt sur images. Retrieved September 29, 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |registration= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ Guillaume Champeau (13 March 2012). "François Asselineau retrouve sa page Wikipédia, provisoirement". Numerama. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
  13. "Qui est vraiment l'UPR ?". Marianne. 24 June 2014.
  14. Législative partielle: la galaxie des micro-partis, Sud-Ouest, 11 June 2013.
  15. Qui est François Asselineau ?, Valeurs actuelles, September 22d, 2014
  16. Législative partielle: la galaxie des micro-partis, Sud-Ouest, 11 June 2013.
  17. fr [Laurent de Boissieu]. "Réponse ouverte à François Asselineau". ipolitique.fr. Retrieved September 29, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  19. Pothier, Louise; Merlin, Caroline (23 September 2014). "ONPC. En invitant François Asselineau, Laurent Ruquier cède à la pression des complotistes". Le Plus de L'Obs (Collaborative website of the magazine)..
  20. On ne touche pas à l’Europe chez Ruquier…, Causeur, September 22d, 2014
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  22. ^ Lemonnier, Jérôme. "Les « petits partis » partent à l’assaut des européennes", Essone Info, 22 May 2014. Retrieved on 24 June 2014.
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  27. ^ Houchard, Béatrice. "Trois recalés de la présidentielle en repêchage à Villeneuve-sur-Lot", Le Figaro, May 30, 2013. Retrieved on 1 October 2013
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  30. "Election législative partielle : les résultats définitifs", Villeneuve-sur-Lot, 23 June 2013. Retrieved on 1 October 2013
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  32. Quinault Maupoil, Tristan. "Européennes: un record de 31 listes à départager en Île-de-France", Le Figaro, 12 May 2014. Retrieved on 24 June 2014
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  36. Yvon, Kathy and Fadeau, Romuald. "Une liste UPR à Saint-Herblain 1", Ouest-France, 16 February 2015. Retrieved on 30 June 2015

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