Yvan Blot

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Yvan Blot (born 29 June 1948 in Saint-Mandé) is a French conservative political figure who has been a member of GRECE and the founder and president of the Club de l'Horloge.[1]

A former Gaullist parliamentarian (for Rally for the Republic), Blot also served as a leading civil servant under both Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski and Alain Devaquet.[2] He joined the Front National in 1989 and was elected to the European Parliament for them in the 1989 election.[3]

A prominent Eurosceptic he played a leading role in establishing a committee to support the Bruges Group in France.[4] He also played a leading role in FN policy making, joining other Club de l'Horloge alumni such as Bruno Mégret and Jean-Yves Le Gallou in driving the party away from corporatism and towards neo-liberal economics.[5] He has also written for Nation Europa magazine. He is now member of the UMP He has two websites :and is the founder of the association "Agir pour la démocratie directe" in Paris. The mission statement of this assopciation is to change the French constitution on the Swiss model.

References

  1. ↑ "Time". August 13, 1979. Retrieved 2007-05-09. 
  2. ↑ J.G. Shields, The Extreme Right in France, Abingdon: Routlegde, 2007, p. 157
  3. ↑ Shields, op cit, p. 242
  4. ↑ G Harris, The Dark Side of Europe – The Extreme Right Today, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994, p. 224
  5. ↑ Shields, op cit, pp. 245-6

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