Jacques Bompard

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Jacques Bompard (1943, Montpellier) is a French politician, member of Philippe de Villiers' Movement for France (MPF) and former member of the far-right National Front (FN).

As a student, Bompard created in the University of Montpellier in the beginning of the 1960s a network of support to the OAS far-right terrorist organization which supported "French Algeria" during the Algerian War (1954-62). He then became a member and national secretary of Occident. Bompard became member of the National Front at his creation in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen. He resigned after being excluded from the political bureau in September 2005.

Bompard was one of the FN mayor, elected in Orange in June 1995 and reelected in 2001. After having resigned from the FN, he joined in three months later, in December 2005, Philippe de Villiers' MPF.