Movement for France
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| Mouvement pour la France | |
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| Leader | Philippe de Villiers |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | 35, Avenue de la Motte Picquet - 75007 PARIS |
| Political Ideology | Traditionalism, Souverainism, Nationalism, Right-wing |
| European Affiliation | IND/DEM, Independence and Democracy |
| International Affiliation | |
| Colours | Blue |
| The 2007 Presidential Election Candidate | |
| Website | www.pourlafrance.fr |
| See also | Constitution of France France Politics |
The Movement for France (French: Mouvement pour la France), or MPF, is a conservative, traditionalist and nationalist party, founded on November 20, 1994, with a marked regional implementation in Vendée. It is led by Philippe de Villiers, once Communication Minister under Jacques Chirac. Philippe de Villiers may be tied to the legitimist right-wing tradition analyzed by famous historian René Rémond.
The party resists increases in European integration and campaigned for a "no" vote in the 2005 referendum on the European constitution. It is also strongly opposed to the possible admission of Turkey into the European Union. While this view is not uncommon, the MPF distinguishes itself here in its stridency and the fact that it does not believe, as do some other political leaders, that Turkey should be admitted at some point in the future, after a set of criteria have been met.
It contested the 1999 European Parliamentary Elections in alliance with the Rassemblement pour la France of Charles Pasqua, the combination winning 13 seats. Standing by itself in the 2004 Elections it gained 7.6% of the popular vote and returned 3 MEPs. They are member of the Independence and Democracy Group in the EP.
It also made campaign against Euro.
Many MFP posters display Villiers prominently and attack outsourcing as well as the European Constitution (as of summer, 2005).
In September 2005, Philippe de Villiers caused a polemic by declaring that terrorism comes from the Islamism, which comes from Islam . Moreover, he published a book in April 2006 “the mosques of Roissy”, inquires helped by confidential notes of the French secret service (DST), in which it revealed the presence of terrorist to the international airport of Roissy. The ministry for the interior opened a lawsuit for the revelation of these notes, the Moslem community of France felt aimed thereafter.
At the time of the riots in suburbs of November 2005, it took again the slogan of Ronald Reagan: “France, love it or leave it”.
Villiers declared candidate with the presidential election of 2007 and appointed a secretary-general, Guillaume Peltier, current number 2 of the mpf One counts from now on 20.000 adhering to the MPF.
[edit] European project
1)Restore the rule of the national law on the European laws. It is the guiding principle: the re-establishment of the democracy by subjecting the technocratic one to the policy.
2)Stop the negotiations of accession of Turkey in Europe and to start the process for partnerships privileged with this country as with other Mediterranean countries.
3)Keep the free hands for an independent foreign politics.
4)Follow a policy of respect of the borders and control of immigration.
5)Build Europe of the free and selected co-operations.
6)Put the national Parliaments in the middle of European construction in their giving a right of veto on the vital interests of the people which they represent.
7)Found a right of call in front of the people for the judgments of the Court of Justice, true right of popular opposition.
8)Put the European Union and the euro at the service of the growth and employment.
9)Found a European preference for industry and the services, as for agriculture.
10)Refuse the European tax and technocratic Europe which costs us €3.8 billion per annum.
