Debout la France
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.
Debout la France | |
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| Leader | Nicolas Dupont-Aignan |
| Vice President | Cécile Bayle de Jessé |
| Vice President | José Evrard |
| Vice President | Gerbert Rambaud |
| Secretary-General | Pierre-Jean Robinot |
| Founder | Nicolas Dupont-Aignan |
| Founded | 23 November 2008 |
| Split from | Union for a Popular Movement |
| Headquarters | 55, rue de Concy 91330 Yerres 93, rue de l'Université 75007 Paris |
| Membership (2018) | 22,000 (claimed) |
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| Political position | Right-wing to far-right |
| Colours | Blue, White, Red (French Tricolore) Blue (customary) |
| Slogan | "Neither system nor extreme" |
| National Assembly | 1 / 577 |
| Senate | 0 / 348 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 74 |
| Presidency of Regional Councils | 0 / 17 |
| Presidency of Departmental Councils | 0 / 101 |
| Website | |
| www | |
Constitution of France Parliament; government; president | |
It is led by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who holds the party's only seat in the French National Assembly. 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 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.