French Nationalist Party

The French Nationalist Party (French: Parti Nationaliste Français; PNF), is a far-right nationalist political movement established in 1983 by former National Front (FN) and Waffen-SS members around the magazine Militant. Inactive after the early 1990s, it was reactivated in 2015 following the dissolution of the néo-Pétainist movement L'Œuvre Française by the French authorities in 2013.

French Nationalist Party

Parti Nationaliste Français (PNF)
General SecretaryAndré Gandillon
SpokespersonYvan Benedetti
PresidentJean-François Simon
Founded1983 (1983)
Split fromNational Front
NewspaperMilitant
MembershipLess than 100 (1990s)
IdeologyFrench nationalism
Ultranationalism
Neo-Pétainism
Identitarianism
Anti-immigration
Political positionFar-right
ReligionCatholic Church
International affiliationAlliance for Peace and Freedom (Associate)
ColoursBlue and Gold
Website
http://parti-nationaliste-francais.com/
PNF members alongside members of the nationalist CLAN movement participating in a 2015 rally honoring Jeanne d'Arc

History

The organization was established in December 1983 by Pierre Bousquet, Pierre Pauty, Jean Castrillo, André Delaporte, Patrice Chabaille, and Henri Simon, all former National Front (FN) members who had split off from the party in 1980 after dismissing it as becoming "too conservative" and "too Zionist" following the death of François Duprat in 1978.[1] FN leader Jean-Marie Le Pen himself was seen a puppet of the Jews,[2] and rising FN member Jean-Pierre Stirbois accused of secretly being a Jew.[3]

Pauty was the leader and first president of the Parti Nationalist Français (PNF). Their aim was to "organize French nationalists and legally diffuse their doctrine", but the racist ideology of a "white Europe from Brest to Vladivostok" failed to convince the public.[4][5]

Two years after the foundation of the Nationalist Party in June 1985, a group of radicals split off the PNF to create the French and European Nationalist Party (PNFE),[6] whose members were involved in several terrorists attacks in the late 1980s, and which replaced the PNF as the main neo-Nazi group in France until its own dissolution in 1999.[7]

From the early 1990s, the PNF was weakened by the departure of its leader Pierre Pauty, who joined the FN in 1992, and by the death of Pierre Bousquet in 1991.[8] In June 1995, Pauty obtained 26.2% of the votes in the municipal election of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis.[9] Meanwhile, the organization became inactive, with only its magazine Militant surviving.[10] The party had no more than 100 militants during this period.[7]

After the dissolution of L'Œuvre Française in 2013, its president Yvan Benedetti, along with André Gandillon, the edactor-in-chief of Militant, reactivated the French Nationalist Party as a new outset for the banned association.[10] In September 2015, Benedetti became its spokesman and called on all L'Œuvre members to join the PNF.[11]

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References
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  2. Camus, Jean-Yves; Lebourg, Nicolas (2017). Far-Right Politics in Europe. Harvard University Press. p. 106. ISBN 9780674971530.
  3. Lebourg, Nicolas (2001). "Neo-fascisme et nationalisme-révolutionnaire. 2. Etat-Nation-Europe". Pratique de l’Histoire et Dévoiements Négationnistes (PHDN).
  4. Igounet, Valérie (2009). Histoire du négationnisme en France (in French). Le Seuil. ISBN 9782021009538.
  5. Petitfils, Jean-Christian (1987). L'Extrême-droite en France (in French). Presses universitaires de France. ISBN 9782130678816.
  6. De Boissieu, Laurent (2018). "Parti Nationaliste Français et Européen (PNFE) — France Politique". France-politique.
  7. Venner, Fiammetta (2006). Extreme France (in French). Grasset. ISBN 978-2-246-66609-7.
  8. Szajkowski, Bogdan; Terranova, Florence (2004). Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World. John Harper Pub. p. 119. ISBN 9780954381127.
  9. Rosso, Romain (7 November 1996). "Profanateurs néonazis: nouvelles preuves". L'Express (in French).
  10. De Boissieu, Laurent (25 October 2015). "L'Œuvre Française se reconstitue au sein du Parti Nationaliste Français". iPolitique (in French).
  11. Erome, Sébastien (1 March 2017). "Yvan Benedetti - Œil sur le front". Libération (in French).
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