Identity–Liberties Identité-Libertés | |
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| Abbreviation | IDL |
| President | Marion Maréchal |
| Founders | Marion Maréchal,Laurence Trochu,Nicolas Bay,Guillaume Peltier |
| Founded | 4 November 2013 (2013-11-04)(Common Sense association) 2020 (2020)(Conservative Movement) 7 October 2024 (2024-10-07)(IDL party) |
| Split from | Reconquête(2024) |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-right[2] |
| European affiliation | European Conservatives and Reformists Party |
| European Parliament group | European Conservatives and Reformists Group |
| National Assembly group | National Rally |
| Colours | |
| National Assembly | 3 / 577 (0.5%) |
| Senate | 0 / 348 (0%) |
| European Parliament (French seats) | 4 / 81 (5%) |
| Website | |
| identite-libertes.fr | |
TheIdentity–Liberties (French:Identité-Libertés,pronounced[idɑ̃titelibɛʁte],IDL) is a French far-rightpolitical party currently led byMarion Maréchal. The party was founded in 2013 and was initially known asCommon Sense (French:Sens commun). In 2020, the party changed its name to theConservative Movement (French:Mouvement conservateur,pronounced[muvmɑ̃kɔ̃sɛʁvatœʁ]). Marion Maréchal took over the party in October 2024, and changed its name to IDL.
The Common Sense association was established in 2013, in opposition to the law introducingsame-sex marriage in France. It was then integrated into theUnion for a Popular Movement. During the2017 presidential election, Common Sense actively supported the candidacy ofFrançois Fillon.[3][4]
After the presidential election, Christophe Billan resigned from the presidency of the Common Sense following the controversy sparked by his agreement to work withMarion Maréchal-Le Pen.[4][5] He was replaced by Madeleine de Jessey, who was appointed interim president of the association.[6] On 9 April 2018,Laurence Trochu was appointed president of the association and entered the political bureau ofThe Republicans party.[7]
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In 2020, Common Sense changed its name to Conservative Movement (MC).[8]
In December 2021, following the defeat ofÉric Ciotti and the nomination ofValérie Pécresse at the2021 The Republicans congress for the2022 French presidential election, the Conservative Movement, until then affiliated with LR, rallied behind the candidacy ofÉric Zemmour.[9]
Following positive statements by Conservative Movement leaders aboutÉric Zemmour,Christian Jacob, then president ofThe Republicans, then indicated that he was "terminating the contract with the Conservative Movement and that its members were excluded from the LR bodies".[10]
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In October 2024,MEPLaurence Trochu announced that she was leaving the Conservative Movement's presidency toMarion Maréchal. Maréchal subsequently decided to change the name of the party and create Identity–Liberties. The party is registered at the address of the Conservative Movement at 75, rue de Lourmel in the15th arrondissement of Paris. The party's logo, like the Conservative Movement's logo before it, is a rooster.[11][12]
The founding of the Identity–Liberties party followed the expulsion of newly electedMEPsMarion Maréchal,Nicolas Bay,Guillaume Peltier andLaurence Trochu from theReconquête party byÉric Zemmour, a few days after the2024 European Parliament election.[13] This expulsion marked Marion Maréchal's rapprochement withMarine Le Pen andJordan Bardella'sNational Rally andÉric Ciotti'sUnion of the Right for the Republic. Marion Maréchal also expressed her opinion that Marine Le Pen represents the "legitimate candidate of the National camp" for the2027 presidential election. She added that she would be among her supporters, in contrast to her anti-Le Pen positioning during the2022 presidential election.[14] However, the National Rally did not react positively to the creation of Identity–Liberties party.[12]
Common Sense, a political offshoot ofLa Manif pour tous organization against thelaw on same-sex marriage, presents itself as attached to family values and of aneconomically liberal tendency. It does not officially claim to be religious, but in fact its ideology and some of its members come from theCatholic right. The association intends to "reserve adoption for male-female couples", prohibit "medically assisted procreation for singles and same-sex couples" and fight againstsurrogacy in the world. In the field of education, the movement advocated plans to "guarantee educational freedom to non-contractual institutions" and eliminate the study of "languages of origin". The movement advocated the abolition ofjus soli and tightening the conditions for access to French citizenship to stop immigration. At the international level, Common Sens advocatedrapprochement betweenFrance andRussia in order to balance international relations.[3][15]
The Identity–Liberties was born out of Marion Maréchal's desire to "carry the voice of a civilized right that is at the same time anti-woke, anti-welfare and anti-tax racketeering". In particular, she said that the movement seeks to ensure "the protection of our identity by sharply reducing immigration, by rejecting Islamization and affirming our Christian heritage, by protecting specific freedoms that are increasingly under threat, namely freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, economic freedom, freedom of education, by assuming greater space for the private alongside the public."[16]
In contrast to theNational Rally, Marion Maréchal advocates "rejectingIslamization or affirming our Christian heritage", whileMarine Le Pen claims to be fighting "Islamist ideology" rather than theMuslim religion.[11]
According to theLe Monde, Identity–Liberties is just a new name for the Conservative Movement, which is based on conservative Catholic voters who oppose immigration. Marion Maréchal brings to it "a dimension ofeconomic liberalism", which is basically an equivalent copy ofReconquête, but withoutÉric Zemmour.[12]
On the day the Identity–Liberties party was established in October 2024, its leaders were elected from among those who had previously belonged to other parties. The party's leadership includes fourmembers of the European Parliament elected on theReconquête list and sitting in theECR Group:Marion Maréchal (president),Nicolas Bay,Guillaume Peltier andLaurence Trochu.
The party also included three members of theNational Assembly who are part of theNational Rally group:Eddy Casterman,Thibaut Monnier andAnne Sicard.[17][18]