République solidaire

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République solidaire
Party leader Jean-Pierre Grand
founding June 19, 2010
Place of foundation Paris
Alignment Gaullism , conservatism
Website www.republiquesolidaire.fr

The République solidaire ( French for Solidary Republic ) is a political association in the Gaullist spectrum in France , which was founded on June 18, 2010 - the 70th anniversary of the de Gaulle appeal in 1940  - by the former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin .

De Villepin founded the association in the course of the conflicts with the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supporters in the UMP . It emerged from the Club Villepin , also founded by de Villepin , which according to his statement should have had 15,000 members. According to its own statements, the République solidaire already had 5,000 members immediately after it was founded; a year later, the number of members was estimated at a maximum of 35,000. According to the association's homepage, five UMP members of the National Assembly belong to the movement.

The République Solidaire has so far seen itself as part of the Union pour un mouvement populaire . De Villepin himself initially remained a member of this party, but resigned in 2011. According to de Villepin, the RS is a movement that "comes from the depths of France, the depths of history", a "union for reconstruction, for reconquest, for the re-establishment of France".

The founding of the association - which has not yet had the status of a political party - was interpreted from the outset as a preparation for de Villepin's candidacy in the French presidential elections in 2012 . Indeed, in December 2011, de Villepin announced his candidacy for the election. However, he did not get the necessary 500 supporter signatures and therefore could not stand for election.

Surveys immediately after the founding of the République Solidaire estimated an election result for de Villepin in the presidential election between five and ten percent of the vote. In December 2011, however, de Villepin's survey results were only between one and 3.5 percent.

In September 2011, de Villepin resigned the presidency of the République Solidaire . His successor was UMP MP Jean-Pierre Grand.

Web links

Commons : République solidaire  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Balmer: Gaullist Alternative for France. New party “Solidarity Republic”. taz.de, June 21, 2010, accessed December 29, 2011 .
  2. ^ A b Stefan Simons: Statesman with a small entourage. Spiegel Online, June 20, 2011, accessed December 29, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b c Villepin founds his own party. Sarkozy's archenemy digs up votes. ntv.de, June 19, 2010, accessed December 29, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Pourquoi Dominique de Villepin quitte l'UMP. leparisien.fr, March 23, 2011, accessed December 29, 2011 (French).
  5. ↑ Ex-Prime Minister wants to go to the Elysée Palace. De Villepin announces candidacy in presidential elections. tagesschau.de, December 12, 2011, archived from the original on January 8, 2012 ; Retrieved December 29, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Sarkozy rival Villepin before the end. Süddeutsche.de, March 16, 2012, accessed on March 19, 2012 .
  7. ^ Resistance to Sarkozy's immigration policy. kleinezeitung.at, 23 August 2010, archived from the original on 27 September 2014 .;
  8. ↑ List de sondages sur l'élection présidentielle française de 2012 in the French language Wikipedia
  9. ↑ Gaël Vaillant: Villepin, you “solidaire” au “rassembleur”. Le Journal du dimanche, September 20, 2011, accessed December 29, 2011 (French).