Debout la France

Debout la France
LeaderNicolas Dupont-Aignan
Vice PresidentCécile Bayle de Jessé
Vice PresidentJosé Evrard
Vice PresidentGerbert Rambaud
Secretary-GeneralPierre-Jean Robinot
FounderNicolas Dupont-Aignan
Founded23 November 2008; 15 years ago (2008-11-23)
Split fromUnion for a Popular Movement
Headquarters55, rue de Concy 91330 Yerres
93, rue de l'Université 75007 Paris
Membership (2018)Increase 22,000 (claimed)[1]
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing[5][9][10][11]
to far-right[12][13][14][15]
Colours      Blue, White, Red (French Tricolore)
  Blue (customary)
Slogan"Neither system nor extreme"
National Assembly
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Senate
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European Parliament
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Presidency of Regional Councils
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Presidency of Departmental Councils
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Website
www.debout-la-france.fr

Constitution of France
Parliament; government; president

Debout la France ([dəbu la fʁɑ̃s], lit.'France Arise'; DLF) is a French political party founded by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in 1999 under the name Debout la République (Republic Arise, DLR) as the "genuine Gaullist" branch of the Rally for the Republic. It was relaunched again in 2000 and 2002 and held its inaugural congress as an autonomous party in 2008. At the 2014 congress, its name was changed to Debout la France!.

It is led by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who held the party's only seat in the French National Assembly before his unseating in 2024. Dupont-Aignan contested the 2012 presidential election and received 644,043 votes in the first ballot, or 1.79% of the votes cast, finishing seventh. In the 2007 presidential election, he had failed to win the required 500 endorsements from elected officials to run. He dropped out without endorsing any candidate. However, he was re-elected by the first round of the 2007 legislative election as a DLF candidate in his home department of Essonne.

The party was a member of EUDemocrats, a Eurosceptic[16] transnational European political party. In 2019, for the European elections, the party joined forces with the CNIP to form an alliance named Les Amoureux de la France ("The Lovers of France"), and announced its alliance with the European Conservatives and Reformists.[17]

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  2. ^ "France election: Marine Le Pen would make Dupont-Aignan PM". BBC News. 29 April 2017.
  3. ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "France". Parties and Elections in Europe.
  4. ^ "Qui est Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, le candidat du "gaullisme"". 21 April 2017.
  5. ^ a b Euroscepticism (PDF). Cardiff EDC. April 2015. p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-30.
  6. ^ "Le Pen, Mélenchon, Dupont-Aignan… A chaque eurosceptique son "Frexit"".
  7. ^ "Quand le vice-président du parti souverainiste Debout la France semble regretter le temps des colonies - le Lab Europe 1". Archived from the original on 2018-02-07. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  8. ^ Ivaldi, Gilles (2018). "Crowding the market: the dynamics of populist and mainstream competition in the 2017 French presidential elections". p. 6. Right-wing populism is also found in the neo-Gaullist and 'sovereignist' Debout la France (DLF) led by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
  9. ^ What Le Pen really wants. POLITICO. Author - Nicholas Vinocur. Published 21 December 2015. Last updated 22 December 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  10. ^ Le Pen names former rival as prime minister. The Times. Authors - Duncan Geddes and Adam Sage. Published 29 April 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  11. ^ Marine Le Pen Will Name a Former Rival Prime Minister if Elected. The New York Times. Author - Aurelien Breeden. Published 29 April 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  12. ^ "Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, de la droite décomplexée à l'extrême-droite". Europe 1 (in French). 20 March 2017.
  13. ^ Eva Mignot (28 June 2017). "Au moins 82 députés ont un membre de leur famille engagé dans la vie politique". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  14. ^ Camille Huppenoire (11 February 2019). "À Bourg sur Gironde, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan pour une union des droites". France Bleu. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  15. ^ "Nicolas Dupont-Aignan écarte Emmanuelle Gave de sa liste aux Européennes en raison d'écrits racistes". Libération. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  16. ^ Article by Géraud de Ville in Politeia (10/2007): Eurosceptics are Eurocritics or Eurorealists;
  17. ^ Charles Sapin (2 January 2019). "Dupont-Aignan noue ses alliances européennes, à l'écart du RN". Le Figaro. Retrieved 17 May 2019.