François Asselineau
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François Asselineau is a French politician. He belonged to the Rally for France (RPF), before creating his own political party
Political party
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, Popular Republican Union, (UPR), a movement known for its patriotism
Patriotism
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 and Euroscepticism
Euroscepticism
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.

Education

François Asselineau enrolled in HEC Paris where he graduated with the MSc in Management from the Grande école program in 1980. He enrolled at École nationale d'administration
École nationale d'administration
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 (ENA) where he graduated in 1985 with the second highest honors of those specialized in economics.

Pre-Political Career

After graduating from HEC Paris and before enrolling École nationale d'administration
École nationale d'administration
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 (ENA), François Asselineau started his career in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 as a cooperant for National Service Overseas (CSNE). He belonged to the service for economic expansion. As many of École nationale d'administration
École nationale d'administration
The École Nationale d'Administration , one of the most prestigious of French graduate schools , was created in 1945 by Charles de Gaulle to democratise access to the senior civil service. It is now entrusted with the selection and initial training of senior French officials...

 alumni, François Asselineau started his career in 1985 as inspector General
Inspector General
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 in the prestigious inspection générale des Finances
General Inspection of Finances (France)
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.

In 1989, he was chief of mission for the National Credit for 2 years. He was also president of the direction of the Society for Economical and Financial Analysis and Diagnostic (SADEF). From 1991, he became chief of mission of the Asia-Oceania office at the Direction of Foreign Economical Relation (DREE) in the Ministry of Economy and Finance under the minister Michel Sapin
Michel Sapin
Michel Sapin is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Indre department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.-Biography:...

 in the Pierre Bérégovoy
Pierre Bérégovoy
Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy was a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1992 to 1993.-Early career:...

 government.

From January 21 to October 1994, he worked as minister-counsellor for international affairs
International affairs
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 of Gérard Longuet
Gérard Longuet
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 in the Ministry of Industry, post, telecommunication and overseas commerce
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 in the Edouard Balladur
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 government. He kept the same position until 1995 while the minister changed to José Rossi.

On June 13, 1995, he is nominated director of the office of the Ministry of Tourism
Minister of Tourism (France)
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, Françoise de Panafieu
Françoise de Panafieu
Françoise de Panafieu is a French politician, member of the Union for a Popular Movement party and mayor of the XVIIe arrondissement of Paris. She was a member of the French Cabinet as tourism minister in 1995 and she has been an MP for Paris since 2002...

, in the first government of Alain Juppé
Alain Juppé
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. The office was under a constant budget constrain pressure by the government In 1996, he moved to the ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hervé de Charette
Hervé de Charette
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 in the second government of Alain Juppé
Alain Juppé
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 where he was in charge of Economic matters for Asia, Oceania and Latin America until the dissolution of parliament
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 by Jacques Chirac
Jacques Chirac
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 in 1997.

Rally for France (RPF) period (1999-2006)

In 1999, François Asselineau engaged himself in politics by becoming a member of the Rally for France (RPF), a party created by Charles Pasqua
Charles Pasqua
Charles Pasqua is a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur...

 and Philippe de Villiers
Philippe de Villiers
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. He became a member of the national bureau, director of studies and spokesman
Spokesman
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 of the party until fall 2005. On July 27, 2000, François Asselineau became vice-director of the general council
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 of the Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine
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. He was in charge of the economic and international affairs. On March 19, 2001, François Asselineau is elected as a member of the council of Paris
Council of Paris
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 in the 19e arrondissement de Paris. His list, a right-wing dissident list made with an agreement between Jean Tiberi
Jean Tiberi
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 and Charles Pasqua
Charles Pasqua
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, was in a triangular against a Rally for the Republic
Rally for the Republic
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 (RPR) list and unified left list composed with Socialist Party
Socialist Party (France)
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 (PS). On May 23, 2001, Charles Pasqua
Charles Pasqua
Charles Pasqua is a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur...

 nominated François Asselineau as the director of his office of the presidency of the general council
General council
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 of Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine
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 where he worked until March 30, 2004 when Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy
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 took over the position of Charles Pasqua
Charles Pasqua
Charles Pasqua is a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur...

.

On October 20, 2004, Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy
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 nominated François Asselineau as the director of the general delegation for economic intelligence within its Minister of Economy. He worked in close collaboration with Alain Juillet, the responsible for economic intelligence nominated by the prime minister
Prime minister
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, Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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. François Asselineau was openly defending an economical patriotism
Patriotism
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 and criticising the institutions within the European Union
European Union
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 that he judged too liberal
Liberalism
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. On December 31, 2004, he decided to join the group Union for a Popular Movement
Union for a Popular Movement
The Union for a Popular Movement is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party...

 (UMP) at the Council of Paris
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. On November 3, 2006, he decided to quit the group and seat with the non-inscrit just after Françoise de Panafieu
Françoise de Panafieu
Françoise de Panafieu is a French politician, member of the Union for a Popular Movement party and mayor of the XVIIe arrondissement of Paris. She was a member of the French Cabinet as tourism minister in 1995 and she has been an MP for Paris since 2002...

, for whom he worked for, was elected president of the council of Paris
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 for the Union for a Popular Movement
Union for a Popular Movement
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 (UMP).

Creation of the UPR

On November 18, 2006, François Asselineau joined for three months the steering committee of Rally for an Independent and sovereign France (RIF), a party created by Paul-Marie Coûteaux
Paul-Marie Coûteaux
Paul-Marie Coûteaux is the son of André Couteaux and a French politician, writer, and former Member of the European Parliament for Ile-de-France with the Mouvement pour la France, Member of the Bureau of the Independence and Democracy and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign...

. On March 25, 2007, exactly 50 years after the signature of the Rome Treaty by the French government, he created the Popular Republican Union (UPR). In September 2007, François Asselineau participated in a council of Paris
Council of Paris
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 within a dissident political group named Paris Libre with other ex-UMP members such as René Galy-Dejean, Cécile Renson, Dominique Baud and Alexandre Galdin.

The group decided to conduct several lists against the Union for a Popular Movement
Union for a Popular Movement
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 (UMP) and François Asselineau decided to conduct a list in the 17e arrondissement de Paris against Françoise de Panafieu
Françoise de Panafieu
Françoise de Panafieu is a French politician, member of the Union for a Popular Movement party and mayor of the XVIIe arrondissement of Paris. She was a member of the French Cabinet as tourism minister in 1995 and she has been an MP for Paris since 2002...

. However he then gave up, denouncing consequent pressure on the members of his list. This is the first time, that the mass media referred to his political group as Popular Republican Union.

Political Program of UPR

The UPR is defined as neither left or right but as a rally for national sovereignty by withdrawing France
France
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 from the European Union
European Union
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, the eurozone
Eurozone
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 and the NATO.
European Union, a creation from USA

Based on American government's declassified documents revealed by The Daily Telegraph
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, Francois Asselineau believes the European Union
European Union
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 was created by the United States
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 intelligence services. Therefore, the European Union
European Union
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 was not created to serve the interest of European
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s but those of the United States
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. He thinks that their purpose is to make France
France
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 and other European nations mere vassal state
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s. He explains that it was accomplished by handing over the President of France and National Assembly of France deputies' main functions and powers to the European Central Bank
European Central Bank
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 and European commission
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 which serve the interests of the transatlantic lobbies
Lobbying
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.
Proposal of UPR

In order to France getting back its national sovereignty, Francois Asselineau proposes the country's unilateral withdrawal from the European Union, thus de facto of the Eurozone
Eurozone
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, by the usage of TEU Article 50. Upon the withdraw from the Eurozone
Eurozone
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, he proposes to replace Euro
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 by a new Franc
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 with the equivalence of 1 euro for 1 franc for several weeks before proceeding to a devaluation
Devaluation
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. Then, he wants to re-empower the banque de France
Banque de France
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 so that it can coin and lend without or with very low interest rate to national administrations
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 by denunciation
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 of the article 25 from the law n°73-7 of 3 january 1973 about the banque de France
Banque de France
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's statutes. He proposes France to get back its national defence independance by the withdrawal from the NATO. François Asselineau endeavour France to take over again its right of defending its commerce national interest at WTO that he believes is now defended by the European commission
European Commission
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 and not always in the country's best interest. He also proposes the restoration of capital, goods and person flow regulation control. Francois Asselineau proposes to revert the public services
Public services
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 reduction and to create a national housing program.

UPR and Francois Asselineau as candidates for 2012 French presidential election

In January 2011, Francois Asselineau mentioned for the first time that he will run for the 2012 French presidential election. However, he said that he will announce it officially later during autumn 2011 .

See also


External links

UPR Official web site
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