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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; 17 years ago (2008-11-23) |
| Split from | Union for a Popular Movement |
| Headquarters | 55, rue de Concy 91330Yerres 93, rue de l'Université 75007Paris |
| Membership(2018) |  22,000 (claimed)[1] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Right-wing[13] tofar-right[18] |
| Colours | Blue, white, red (French Tricolore) Blue (customary) |
| Slogan | Neither System Nor Extreme |
| National Assembly | 0 / 577 |
| Senate | 0 / 348 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 81 |
| Presidency of Regional Councils | 0 / 17 |
| Presidency of Departmental Councils | 0 / 101 |
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Constitution of France Parliament;government;president | |
Debout la France (DLF;[dəbulafʁɑ̃s],lit. 'France Arise'), originally calledDebout la République (DLR;[dəbulaʁepyblik],lit. 'Republic Arise'), is aFrench political party founded byNicolas Dupont-Aignan in 1999 as the "genuineGaullist" branch of theRally 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.
It is led by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who held the party's only seat in theFrench National Assembly before his unseating in 2024. Dupont-Aignan contested the2012 French presidential election and received 644,043 votes in the first ballot, or 1.79% of the votes cast, finishing seventh. In the2007 French 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 the2007 French legislative election as a DLF candidate in his home department ofEssonne.
The party was a member ofEUDemocrats, aEurosceptic transnationalEuropean political party.[19] For the2019 European Parliament election in France, the party joined forces with theNational Centre of Independents and Peasants to form an alliance namedLes Amoureux de la France (lit. 'The Lovers of France'), and announced its alliance with theEuropean Conservatives and Reformists.[20]
DLF's electoral support is concentrated in Dupont-Aignan's department ofEssonne, where the DLF list polled 5.02% in the2009 European Parliament election in France,[21] and it polled up to 36.14% in his hometown ofYerres.[22] The party also polled well in theÎle-de-France region (2.44%), theNorth-West (2.4%), and theEast constituency (2.33%), owing the regions' conservative andGaullist departments.
In the2012 presidential election, Dupont-Aignan obtained 1.79% of votes at the first round and did not endorse any candidate in the second. In the followinglegislative elections, Dupont-Aignan was elected to the National Assembly inEssonne's 8th constituency. The2014 European Parliament election in France saw the party increase its share of the popular vote to 3.82%, although it failed to elect any MEPs.
Dupont-Aignan was again the party's candidate in the2017 French presidential election, obtaining 4.73% of the vote in the first round. He then endorsed theNational Rally (then the National Front)'s candidateMarine Le Pen in the second round. In the2017 French legislative election, Dupont-Aignan was re-elected to theNational Assembly.
During the2012 French presidential election, the party defined itself as representingsocial Gaullism and an alternative to the left–right divide. When founding the party, Dupont-Aignan positioned it to the right of what he calls the "UMPS" (a neologism of the former centre-rightRally for the Republic and the centre-leftSocialist Party) but not as hardline as theFrench National Front, which he summed up with the slogan "Neither System Nor Extreme".[23]
The party has been defined by the media and political analysts asconservative,nationalist, andGaullist. It is generally positioned on theright-wing or thefar-right of the political spectrum,[24] although the party and members of theFrench Council of State have disputed the latter label.[25] On February 14, 2023, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) released a report in which it classified Debout La France as a "conspiracy" and "anti-immigrant" group.[26]
On economic matters, the party takes a largelyprotectionist attitude (including offering tax incentives for businesses to remain in France) and supports nationalizing the French highway system.[27] The party has advocated that France should leave theEurozone and takes a highly critical stance of theEuropean Union, denouncing what it regards asglobalism against French identity and argues that France should reclaim sovereignty it regards as lost to the EU.[28] It also calls for strict border controls, regulation of immigration,[29] and the reopening of penal colonies for violent criminals and convicted terrorists.[30]
| Election year | Candidate | First round | Second round | Result | ||||
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| Votes | % | Rank | Votes | % | Rank | |||
| 2012 | Nicolas Dupont-Aignan | 643,907 | 1.79 | 7th | — | Lost | ||
| 2017 | 1,695,000 | 4.70 | 6th | — | Lost | |||
| 2022 | 725,176 | 2.06 |  9th | — | Lost | |||
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2009 | 304,585 | 1.77% | 0 |
| 2014 | 744,441 | 3.82% | 0 |
| 2019 | 795,508 | 3.51% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84,886 | 4.78% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2015 | 69,285 | 3.35% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2015 | 71,538 | 2.85% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2015 | 49,774 | 5.17% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2015 | 34,916 | 2.90% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2015 | 39,406 | 4.58% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2010 | 119,835 | 4.15% | 0 |
| 2015 | 207,286 | 6.57% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2015 | 80,375 | 3.91% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2015 | 978 | 0.37% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2010 | 14,880 | 2.25% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2015 | 53,359 | 2.39% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2015 | 47,391 | 4.14% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2015 | 51,873 | 4.09% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2015 | 34,599 | 1.95% | 0 |
| Election year | Number of votes | % of overall vote | No. of seats won |
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| 2010 | 10,237 | 1.79% | 0 |
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan fromEssonne was the only DLF member of theNational Assembly before losing reelection in 2024. The party also claims three general councillors and mayors in four communes:Yerres,Cambrai,Saint-Prix, andAncinnes.
Right-wing populism is also found in the neo-Gaullist and 'sovereignist' Debout la France (DLF) led by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
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