National Republican Movement

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The National Republican Movement (Mouvement National Républicain or MNR) is a French far-right political party, created by Bruno Mégret as a split from Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. Although political observers considers the MNR as a far-right party, the MNR presents itself as classical liberal and nationalist. Mégret has tried in the past to distance himself from Le Pen's provocative statements, in particular concerning Holocaust denial.

Its political proposals are:

in favor of free markets and neoliberalism;
the fight against undesirable immigration, in particular of Islamists and, more generally, of Muslims in what they consider a predominantly Christian country.

During the 2004 campaign for the regional elections, the MNR campaigned under the "No to islamization" slogan. In 2005, it campaigned against the proposed European Constitution and the possible integration of Turkey in the European Union; Bruno Mégret said that the Europeans, including France, were lying to the Turks by having them believe they could integrate within the EU, whereas public opinion would surely reject Turkey's membership in a referendum.

[edit] Electoral Results

1999 European Parliament election : Bruno Mégret's list gets 578 774 ballots (03,28%) but fails gaining seats in the EU Parliament

2002 presidential election : Bruno Mégret gets 02,33%

2002 legislative elections : the MNR presents 572 candidates all around France getting 280 131 ballots. No MNR candidate will be elected during this ballot.

2004 regional elections : the MNR presents candidates in 13 of the 22 french administrative regions. The highest score obtained by the party is made by Alain Vauzelle in the Provence region (Marseille-Toulon-Cannes-Nice) with 02,95%

2004 European Parliament election : the MNR gets low results with an average of 00,31% all over France