François Asselineau

François Asselineau, 2014

François Asselineau [ fʁɑswa asəlino ] (born September 14, 1957 in Paris ) is a French politician and former top civil servant (inspector general for finances). He is the founder and president of the sovereignist edge party Popular Republican Union (UPR) with conspiracy theories and a strong presence on the Internet, especially on social media, the withdrawal of France from the European Union ( " Frexit "), the euro zone as well as from NATO represents .

Studies

After graduating from high school with a technical and scientific orientation ( baccalauréat scientifique ) with the grade "Very Good" , François Asselineau studied at the HEC Paris School of Economics ( École des hautes études commerciales ) and in 1980 obtained a Master of Science in Management. After completing his military service, he attended the ENA ( École nationale d'administration ). He graduated in 1985 as the second best in business administration (class Léonard de Vinci) and then chose a career in financial inspection, one of the three grands Corps d'Etat (highest levels in French administration).

Activity in top civil servant

François Asselineau did his military service in Japan as a volunteer (CSNE) in the French trade mission.

As a graduate of ENA, from 1985 he held the position of General Inspector of Finance. From 1989 to 1990 he was head of mission of the financial institute Crédit National and chairman of the board of the Société d'analysis et de diagnostic économique et financier (SADEF) (Society for Economic and Financial Analysis). In 1991, under the government of Pierre Bérégovoy, he was appointed Head of Mission of the Asia-Oceania Office in the Directorate for External Economic Relations of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. In 1993, under the government of Édouard Balladur , he joined the cabinet of the Minister for Industry and Foreign Trade, Gérard Longuet , as a consultant for international affairs .

In June 1995, under the first Juppé government , François Asselineau was appointed Head of Cabinet of the Minister for Tourism, Françoise de Panafieu . A few months later, in January 1996, he was appointed advisor in the cabinet of Foreign Minister Hervé de Charette under the second Juppé government, responsible for "relations with Asia, Oceania, Latin America and for economic issues". In this capacity, he prepared the content of the President's and Foreign Minister's trips, especially to China, Japan, Southeast Asia and Latin America. In this context, he met world leaders and took part in talks with them, from Pope John Paul II to the Japanese emperor, Nelson Mandela , the Brazilian, Argentine, Saudi, Chinese ( Jiang Zemin , Li Peng ), Vietnamese , Indonesian and other heads of state.

Beginnings in politics and establishment of the UPR

After the dissolution of the French National Assembly in April 1997, François Asselineau moved to the General Inspectorate for Finance. He joined the former Interior Minister Charles Pasqua when he decided in January 1999 to draw up a separate list for the European elections in June to protest against the ratification of the Treaty of Amsterdam without a referendum . He became a member of the executive committee of the new party, Rassemblement pour la France (RPF) and was also head of studies and their spokesman until autumn 2005.

In July 2000, François Asselineau became Deputy Director of the General Council of the Hauts-de-Seine department and in this role was responsible in particular for economic and international affairs. In March 2001 he was elected to the Paris City Council, on a list he kept in the 19th arrondissement of a right-wing splinter party that emerged from an agreement between Jean Tiberi and Charles Pasqua. In the second ballot against the socialist candidate (unified list of the left) and the candidate of the right ( RPR - UDF ) he received 15.8% of the vote. On May 23, 2001, Charles Pasqua appointed him as President of the General Council of the Hauts-de-Seine as his head of cabinet . The successor to Charles Pasqua as President of the General Council from April 2004, Nicolas Sarkozy , appointed François Asselineau on October 20 of the same year as Chief Representative for Competitive Intelligence in the Ministry of Economy and Finance. François Asselineau saw this new post as a relegation, which based his opinion on the fact that his analyzes, although they were irrefutable, were not welcomed.

On December 31, 2004, François Asselineau decided to join the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP) group in the Paris City Council. However, he resigned on November 3, 2006 to sit with the non-attached , immediately after Françoise de Panafieu , of which he was head of cabinet under the Juppé II government , was elected chairwoman of the Paris City Council as a candidate for the Union pour un mouvement populaire. He became a board member of the Rassemblement pour une France indépendante et souveraine (RIF) party founded by Paul-Marie Coûteaux , and resigned three months later to found his own party.

On March 25, 2007, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome , François Asselineau founded a new political movement, the Union Populaire Républicaine (UPR), “whose aim is to help France withdraw from the European Treaties To achieve calm, single-handedly, democratically and in accordance with international law . [...] The UPR would like to make our country the worldwide mouthpiece of freedom, peace and cooperation between peoples and nations, and rejects the dangerous and suspicious differentiation between European and non-European citizens. "

As early as September 2007, François Asselineau and his newly founded party took part in a parliamentary group founded by former members of the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP) called Paris Libre (Free Paris). François Asselineau stood in the 17th arrondissement as the top candidate against Françoise de Panafieu . However, he backed down and complained about the heavy pressure on the members of his list.

Long considered a splinter group, as François Asselineau himself confirms, the UPR saw the number of its members increase significantly in 2012, from 707 members at the end of 2011 to 2140 members at the end of 2012. In March 2017 the number of members was 16,800.

Participation in elections from 2012

In January 2011, François Asselineau announced his intention to run for the 2012 French presidential election. He confirmed his candidacy again in December 2011 at the national congress of the Union Populaire Républicaine, but had to withdraw it because he was unable to obtain the necessary 500 signatures from elected officials.

In the 2014 European elections, the UPR was present in all constituencies in France. In the election it received 76,907 votes (0.41%). In December 2015, the UPR took part in the regional elections and provided a list in all constituencies (1,971 candidates in total) except Corsica and the overseas departments of Guyane, Guadeloupe and Martinique. The UPR received 0.87% of the vote (189,330 votes). In the Ile-de-France region, where he was the top candidate, François Asselineau received 0.94% of the vote (29,755 votes).

In March 2017, François Asselineau announced his candidacy for the 2017 French presidential election after more than the necessary 500 signatures from elected officials were officially recognized by the Constitutional Council; in the election he received 0.92% of the vote. In May 2019, his party won 1.17% in the European elections .

Political positioning

Asselineau's program is pervaded by conspiratorial theories and conspiracies, some of which are widely used on the Internet. François Asselineau wants his discourse to unite all French across the right-left divide, "in order to give France back its freedom and democracy. This first requires the termination of the EU treaties [...] and the confiscation of the private feudal system withdraw from business, civil service and the media ". The unilateral withdrawal of France from the European Union would take place in accordance with the possibility provided for in Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) for each state. He argues that real power today is exercised by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, by Brussels and, for NATO, by Washington, and that France has no room for maneuver while it is in the European Union as it is bound by treaty. “I propose leaving the European Union, the Eurozone , and NATO so that we can regain our national sovereignty.” He also denounces the guardianship of the United States, which he believes has been “constant since the end of the Second World War " European unification " had worked towards it, namely as a planner, initiator, impulse giver and financier ", since he fears that sooner or later this will lead to" a worldwide apartheid of the white world ".

François Asselineau's program also provides for a number of constitutional amendments to “restore democracy” (prohibition of unlimited and unrestricted transfer of sovereignty, introduction of publicly initiated referendums, recognition of abstentions ...), as well as measures to “regain the Independence of the press vis-à-vis the state and the financial powers "(creation of an independent public information agency , laws against media concentration , renationalisation of the TV channel TF1 ...), and economic measures (reallocation to the Banque de France of the role of state financing, restoration of control of capital movements, Reaffirmation of the constitutional principle on the public property of large public service companies ...).

Treatment in the media

François Asselineau began to write pseudonymously for various magazines and to analyze the reasons why the European unification would lead France into a political, economic, social and moral standstill of historic proportions. After the UPR was founded, he began to hold a series of conferences in France and Belgium, which were disseminated on the Internet, attracting a sizeable audience. Asselineau claims in his blog that according to the ranking of 29 French parties made by Alexa Ranking in January 2013, the UPR ranks 4th after the Parti socialiste (Socialist Party) (PS) and before the Front de gauche (FG) in worldwide internet queries. take.

Although he is regularly invited by French regional media as well as two major Russian media outlets ( RIA Novosti and Russia Today ), François Asselineau remains absent from the major French media, which he accuses of wanting to censor him. As a possible presidential candidate in the 2012 elections, he complained that the French media had not followed the recommendations of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel . In response to his complaint, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel confirmed that every potential candidate would be treated equally and that all communication tools, including the Internet, should be used to assess the representativeness of the candidate.

François Asselineau also accused the French language Wikipedia of censoring his site. According to Numerama, the page in the French Wikipedia was deleted several times, which was justified with a lack of relevance ; In December 2015 the French Wikipedia finally decided to keep the site.

Web links

• François Asselineau's blog
• UPR website

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} François Asselineau. Les Échos , July 27, 2000, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} François ASSELINEAU - President de l'UPR. (No longer available online.) Upr.fr, September 12, 2011, archived from the original on December 7, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Cabinet de Françoise de PANAFIEU François ASSELINEAU. Les Échos , May 24, 1995, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
4. ^ Cabinet de Gérard Longuet Philippe ANDRES François ASSELINEAU. (No longer available online.) Les Échos , January 21, 1994, archived from the original on December 16, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Composition du cabinet de Françoise de Panafieu. Les Échos , June 13, 1995, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
6. ↑ Arrêté du 8 janvier 1996 portant nomination au cabinet du ministre, Legifrance JORF n ° 14, January 17, 1996, p. 828.
7. ^ Ile-de-France. Paris (75) - Liberation Liberation, Ile-de-France. Paris (75), March 19, 2001.
8. ↑ BERNARD BLED, ancien secrétaire général de la Ville de Paris, devient directeur général des services administratifs du conseil général des Hauts-de-Seine. (No longer available online.) Le Monde , May 23, 2001, formerly the original ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 (French).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
9. ^ François Asselineau. (No longer available online.) Les Échos , October 20, 2004, archived from the original on December 16, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Ça bouge à l'UMP. Le Parisien , December 31, 2004, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
11. ↑ Démission remarquée à l'UMP. Le Parisien , November 3, 2006, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
12. ↑ Laurent de Boissieu: Rassemblement pour l'indépendance et la souveraineté de la France (RIF). France-Politique.fr, March 14, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
13. ↑ Julien Lopez & Yannis Zebaïr: Asselineau: La dictature de l'Europe. (No longer available online.) Bondy Blog, October 28, 2011, archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ^ ^{A b} Les souverainistes radicaux créent l ' Union populaire républicaine . (fr) revue-republicaine.fr. March 28, 2007.
15. ↑ Marie-Anne Gairaud: Bertrand Delanoë bientôt dans les arrondissements ... Le Parisien, September 27th 2007, accessed on December 7, 2013 (French). 
16. ↑ 24 Heures. Le Parisien, December 22, 2007, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
17. ^ Agence France-Presse: XVIIe: un divers droite jette l'éponge. Le Figaro, February 21, 2008, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
18. ↑ Benoît Hasse: Panafieu malmenée dans son fief du XVIIe. Le Parisien, February 26, 2008, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
19. ↑ L'ascension de l'UPR continue et progresse. (No longer available online.) Le blog de François Asselineau, February 20, 2012, archived from the original on December 12, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ Premier bilan de la croissance de l'UPR en 2012. (No longer available online.) Le blog de François Asselineau, December 12, 2012, archived from the original on December 12, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ^ ^{A b} François Asselineau, candidat pourfendeur de l'Europe et de l'impérialisme américain. Le Figaro, March 10, 2017, accessed on March 11, 2017 (French). 
22. ↑ Asselineau candidat à la presidential. Le Parisien, December 3, 2011, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
23. ↑ Les candidats à la presidential: Jacques Cheminade a ses 500 signatures, pas Corinne Lepage. La Tribune, March 19, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
24. ^ "Élections européennes 2014" , http://www.france-politique.fr/ , May 25, 2014. Accessed March 11, 2017
25. ↑ "Élections régionales 2015" , http://www.france-politique.fr/ , 6 December 2015. Accessed on 11 March 2017
26. ↑ "Résultat des élections régionales de 2015 en Île-de-France" , archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 6, 2015. Retrieved March 11, 2017 
27. ↑ Huffington Post: Avec François Asselineau, les conspirationnistes ont leur candidat à la présidentielle , March 10, 2017 (French)
28. ↑ Le Nord - Pas-de-Calais de A à Z. La Voix du Nord, February 28, 2012, accessed on December 7, 2013 (French). 
29. ^ Ève Moulinier: François Asselineau, le candidat qui dit non à l'UE. Le Dauphiné Libéré, February 12, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
30. ↑ ^{a b} National Liberation Program. upr.fr, September 12, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
31. ^ Laurent de Boissieu: Presidential: Ces "petits" candidats qui veulent se faire entender. La Croix , March 15, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
32. ^ François Asselineau. La Dépêche du Midi, June 5, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
33. ↑ ^{a b} La construction européenne, projet inspiré par Washington (expert français). RIA Novosti , September 15, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
34. ^ Isabelle Dupont: Un petit candidat contre la grande Europe. Nord éclair, February 29, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
35. ↑ L'UPR à la 4ème place sur l'Internet mondial. (No longer available online.) Le blog de François Asselineau, January 8, 2012, archived from the original on January 5, 2014 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
36. ↑ Passages média. (No longer available online.) Upr.fr, September 12, 2013, archived from the original on December 7, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
37. ^ Pussy Riot: indignation occidentale à géométrie variable (Asselineau). RIA Novosti , September 12, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
38. ↑ L'euro et condamné à disparaître (François Asselineau). RIA Novosti , September 12, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
39. ↑ Maria Finoshina: Resourceful Security. Russia Today , February 4, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 . 
40. ↑ Maria Finoshina: RT interviews French Anti-UE Politician François Asselineau. Russia Today , October 28, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 . 
41. ↑ The taxman cometh: Hollande sets France's toughest budget in 30 years. Russia Today , September 28, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 . 
42. ↑ Laurent Bravard: Les candidats invisibles. (No longer available online.) L'Audible, June 26, 2012, archived from the original on December 11, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
43. ↑ Laurent Bravard: François Asselineau, le courage contre l'ostracisme. La Voix de la Russie, July 13, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
44. ^ Jean-Jacques Seymour: L'invité de Jean-Jacques Seymour. Tropiques FM, March 5, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
45. ↑ Michel Boyon: Lettre envoyée au Secrétaire national de l'UPR. Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel , February 8, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
46. ^ Jean Robin: François Asselineau: "Ma fiche wikipedia a été censurée". (No longer available online.) Enquête & débat, January 17, 2011, archived from the original on December 12, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
47. ^ Yonathan Van Der Voort: Rencontre avec le souverainiste François Asselineau. Parlons Info ', July 13, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 (French). 
48. ↑ Guillaume Champeau: Un candidat à l'élection présidentielle privé de page Wikipédia. Numerama, March 5, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 (French).