The National Rally,known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018,is a French far-right political party,described as right-wing populist and nationalist. It is the single largest parliamentary opposition party in the National Assembly since 2022. Its candidate was defeated in the second round in the 2002,2017 and 2022 presidential elections. It opposes immigration,advocating significant cuts to legal immigration,protection of French identity,and stricter control of illegal immigration. The party advocates a "more balanced" and "independent" French foreign policy,opposing French military intervention in Africa while supporting France leaving NATO's integrated command. It also supports reform of the European Union (EU) and its related organisations as well as economic interventionism,protectionism,and zero tolerance for breaches of law and order.
Renaud Muselier is a French physician and politician who is the President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur since 2017. A former member of The Republicans (LR),he previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 to 2019.
The far-right tradition in France finds its origins in the Third Republic with Boulangism and the Dreyfus affair. In the 1880s,General Georges Boulanger,called "General Revenge",championed demands for military revenge against Imperial Germany as retribution for the defeat and fall of the Second French Empire during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). This stance,known as revanchism,began to exert a strong influence on French nationalism. Soon thereafter,the Dreyfus affair provided one of the political division lines of France. French nationalism,which had been largely associated with left-wing and Republican ideologies before the Dreyfus affair,turned after that into a main trait of the right-wing and,moreover,of the far right. A new right emerged,and nationalism was reappropriated by the far-right who turned it into a form of ethnic nationalism,blended with anti-Semitism,xenophobia,anti-Protestantism and anti-Masonry. The Action française (AF),first founded as a journal and later a political organization,was the matrix of a new type of counter-revolutionary right-wing,which continues to exist today. During the interwar period,the Action française and its youth militia,the Camelots du Roi,were very active. Far right leagues organized riots.
Bernard Deflesselles is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 9th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône since 1999. A member of The Republicans (LR),his constituency is located in the department's southeastern corner;it follows the Mediterranean coast until the border with Var,comprising Cassis and La Ciotat.
Franck Alix Georges Riester is a French politician who most recently served as Minister Delegate for Parliamentary Relations in the Government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2024. He previously served as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex and Élisabeth Borne between 2020 and 2022. A former member of The Republicans,he founded and currently leads the centre-right Agir party.
Philippe Gosselin is a French lawyer and politician of the Republicans (LR) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since the 2007 elections,representing the Manche department.
Philippe Vigier is a French politician who served as Minister Delegate for the Overseas in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2023 to 2024.
Éric Ciotti is a French politician who has led The Republicans (LR),a Gaullist party,since December 2022. He has represented the 1st constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes department in the National Assembly since the 2007 legislative election. He is a member of The Republicans' right-wing,seeking to distance the party from Emmanuel Macron's presidency.
Jérôme Rivière is a French politician,lawyer and entrepreneur who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) until 2007,he was a member of the National Rally (RN),previously known as the National Front (FN),from 2017 until 2022,when he announced his support for Éric Zemmour in the 2022 presidential election and was appointed vice chairman of Zemmour's newly-founded Reconquête party.
Gilbert Georges Jean Camille RenéCollard is a French writer,barrister and politician serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of the National Rally (RN) until 2022,he was a member of the National Assembly for the 2nd constituency of Gard from 2012 until 2019. Collard also served as Secretary-General of the Rassemblement bleu Marine (RBM) since 2012,a right-wing political association and think-tank supporting Marine Le Pen. In January 2022,he left the RN for Éric Zemmour's Reconquête.
The Popular Right is a recognised movement within the National Rally (RN) since 2019,previously within the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and The Republicans (LR). It was founded in 2010 as the Collectif parlementaire de la Droite populaire,a caucus of UMP parliamentarians which included 26 members of the National Assembly. The Popular Right seeks to emphasise issues such as national identity,security and immigration. Its leader is Thierry Mariani,currently an MEP.
Steeve Briois is a French politician. In 2017,he was interim leader of the National Front. In 2014,he was elected mayor of Hénin-Beaumont and a member of the European Parliament. From 2011 to 2014,he was general-secretary of the National Front. He was a member of the regional council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais from 1998 to 2014.
The Republicans is a liberal conservative political party in France,largely inspired by the tradition of Gaullism. The party was formed on 30 May 2015 as the re-incorporation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP),which had been established in 2002 under the leadership of then-President of France,Jacques Chirac.
Presidential elections were held in France on 10 and 24 April 2022. As no candidate won a majority in the first round,a runoff was held,in which Emmanuel Macron defeated Marine Le Pen and was re-elected as President of France. Macron,from La République En Marche! (LREM),had defeated Le Pen,leader of the National Rally,once already in the 2017 French presidential election,for the term which expired on 13 May 2022. Macron became the first president of France to win a re-election bid since Jacques Chirac won in 2002.
Ludovic Pajot is a French politician who served as the member of the National Assembly for the 10th constituency of Pas-de-Calais from 2017 to 2021. A member of the National Rally,he has been Mayor of Bruay-la-Buissière since 2020. At age 24 in 2017,Pajot was the youngest member of the 15th National Assembly. He previously was a municipal councillor in Béthune,first elected in 2014.
Jordan Bardella is a French politician who has been the president of the National Rally (RN) since 2022,after serving as acting president from September 2021 to November 2022 and as vice-president from 2019 to 2022. Bardella has also served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019,when he was the lead candidate for the RN in the European Parliament election,and has been a regional councillor of Île-de-France since 2015.
Hélène Laporte is a French politician who was elected as a National Rally group Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2019 European parliamentary election. She was vice president of the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024.
Pierre-Henri Dumont is a French politician of the Republicans who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly from June 2017 to 2024,representing the Pas-de-Calais's 7th constituency. His constituency contains the port city of Calais.
Jean-Philippe Tanguy is a French politician who has represented the 4th constituency of the Somme department in the National Assembly since 2022. He is a member of the National Rally (RN).
The Union of the Far-Right is a political and electoral descriptor created by the French Ministry of the Interior for the 2024 French legislative election to denote candidates from The Republicans (LR) party that were supported and endorsed by the National Rally (RN). Le Monde classified these investitures as joint LR–RN candidacies. Following the second round of the election,a total of seventeen UXD candidates were elected to the National Assembly.
