François Asselineau

François Asselineau [ fʁɑswa asəlino ] ( born 14 September 1957 in Paris ) is a French politician and held the office of the Inspector General of Finance. He first joined the party, Rassemblement pour la France at ( RPF), before he founded his own political party, the Union Populaire Républicaine (UPR ), the plan provides for the unilateral withdrawal of France from the European Union, the euro zone and from NATO. In 2012 he was a candidate for the presidential election, but he failed to obtain the necessary for the official recognition of his candidacy 500 signatures of elected officials.

Studies

After the rating " very good" high school graduation with technical-scientific orientation ( baccalauréat scientifique ) François Asselineau graduated from the HEC School of Management Paris ( Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales ) and earned 1980 this elite high school's Master of Science in Management. After military service, he passed the entrance examination in 1982 of the Administrative Sciences ENA ( Ecole Nationale d'Administration ). This he graduated in 1985 as the second best in the field of Business Administration (born Léonard de Vinci ) from, and then chose a career in the financial inspection, one of the three " grands corps d'Etat " ( the highest levels in the French administrative structure ).

Minister Careers

François Asselineau started his career in Japan as part of his military service as a development worker ( CSNE ) in the department of economic development in Japan. A graduate of the ENA in 1985, he held the office of Inspector General of Finance.

From 1989 to 1990 he was head of mission of the financing institution " Crédit National " and CEO of the " Société d'analyze et de diagnostic économique et financier ( SADEF )" ( society for economic and financial analysis ). In 1991 he was appointed head of mission of the Office Asia -Oceania in the Directorate of Foreign Economic Relations of the Economy and Finance under the government of Pierre Bérégovoy. In 1993 he joined under the government of Edouard Balladur as a consultant for International Affairs in the Cabinet of the Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, Gérard Longuet, a.

In June 1995, François Asselineau was Chef de Cabinet of the Minister for Tourism, Françoise de Panafieu, appointed under the first Juppé government. A few months later he was in January 1996 as an adviser in the Cabinet of the Foreign Minister Hervé de Charette responsible under the second Juppé government " for relations with Asia, Oceania, Latin America, and economic issues ." In this capacity he prepared the travel of the President and the Foreign Minister of content before, especially to China, Japan, Southeast Asia and Latin America. In this context, he met world leaders and participated in discussions with this part, beginning with Pope John Paul II, to the Japanese Emperor, Nelson Mandela, the Brazilian, Argentine, Saudi, Chinese ( Jiang Zemin, Li Peng ), Vietnam, Indonesian and other heads of state.

Political commitment

After the dissolution of the French National Assembly in April 1997, François Asselineau joined the General Inspectorate of Finance. He approached Charles Pasqua, when he decided in January 1999 to set up its own list for the European elections in June to protest against the ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty without a referendum. For the first time he joined a political party, and was a member of the party executive of the Rassemblement pour la France (RPF ), before he also worked as a director for studies and speaker until the fall of 2005.

On July 27, 2000, François Asselineau deputy director of the municipal council of the Hauts -de -Seine, and was responsible in particular for Economic and International Affairs. On March 19, 2001, he was elected to the city council of Paris, on a guided up from him in the 19th arrondissement, a list resulting from an agreement between Jean Tiberi and Charles Pasqua right-wing splinter party. In the second round against the socialist candidate ( unit list of the left ) and the candidate of the right (RPR - UDF) it reached 15.8 % of the vote. On 23 May 2001, he was named Charles Pasqua as president of the municipal council of the Hauts -de -Seine to head his office. The successor of Charles Pasqua as president of the council from April 2004, Nicolas Sarkozy, François Asselineau appointed on 20 October of the same year to the Commissioner-General for Competitive Intelligence in Economics and Finance. François Asselineau sees this as an exclusion measure, and the rapid removal of his body that establishes his opinion is " that his analysis, although they were irrefutable, were not welcome ."

At 31 December 2004 François Asselineau, the group Union pour un mouvement populaire decided (UMP ) in the city council of Paris to join. However, he stepped out on 3 November 2006, to sit with the non-attached immediately after Françoise de Panafieu, the cabinet chief, he was under the Juppé government II, was elected as a candidate of the Union pour un mouvement populaire to the Chairman of the Municipal Council of Paris. He was a board member, founded by Paul -Marie Coûteaux party Rassemblement pour une France indépendante et sovereign ( RIF) (Association for an independent and sovereign France ), three months later he resigned to form his own party.

Establishment of the Union Populaire Républicaine (UPR )

On March 25, 2007, being the date of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, François Asselineau founded a new political movement, the " Union Populaire Républicaine " (UPR ), " whose goal is to France's withdrawal from the European Treaties with rest, to achieve single-handedly, in a democratic way and in accordance with international law. [ ... ] the UPR would make our country the global voice of freedom, of peace and cooperation among the peoples and nations, and rejects the dangerous and suspicious differentiation from between European and non-European citizens. "

As early as September 2007, François Asselineau and his newly founded party to one of the former members of the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP ) Group was founded with the name Paris Libre (Free Paris). François Asselineau stepped up to the 17th arrondissement as the leading candidate to Françoise de Panafieu. However, he backed down and lamented the pressure exerted on the members of his list of strong pressure.

Long regarded as a splinter group, such as François Asselineau confirmed itself, the UPR has seen the number of its members in 2012 to rise significantly, from 707 members at the end of 2011 to 2140 members in late 2012. On January 29, 2014, the membership was, according to the UPR 4000 distributed to all French departments and 27 other countries.

Candidacy for the French presidential elections in Jahr2012

In January 2011, François Asselineau announced his intention to run for the French 2012 presidential election. His candidacy, he confirmed again in December 2011 at the National Congress of the Union Populaire Républicaine. However, because he failed to obtain the necessary 500 signatures for his candidacy of elected officials, he could not be on the list of officially approved by the Constitutional Council candidates on 19 March 2012.

Political discourse

François Asselineau reaffirmed its discourse aims to bring together all the French on the right-left divide of time, " to France back its freedom and its democracy. This requires first to denounce the EU treaties [ ... ] and the private feudal system the to escape " confiscation of the economy, the public sector and the media. The unilateral withdrawal of France from the European Union would be in accordance with Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) provided for each state option.

Noting that " the real power is exercised today by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Brussels and NATO from Washington ," he argues, " that we have no room for maneuver, as long as we are in the European Union, because we are contractually bound. I propose the withdrawal from the European Union, from the euro zone, and from NATO, so that we regain our national sovereignty. " He also denounces the guardianship of the United States, which " have helped to, as a planner, initiator, initiator and financier " in his opinion " ever since the end of World War II on the " European unification, because he fears that this will sooner or later leads " to a global apartheid of the white world."

Undoubtedly inspired by the report prepared by the National Council of Resistance and presented on March 15, 1944 Government Programme, the program of François Asselineau addition, a series of constitutional amendments to " restore democracy " before (prohibition of unlimited and unrestricted in their purpose transfer of sovereignty, introducing by the public -initiated referendums, recognition of abstention ... ), as well as measures to " regain the independence of the press against the state and the financial powers " ( creation of a public independent information institution, laws against media concentration, re-nationalization of the television station TF1 ... ), and economic measures ( re-allocation to the Banque de France, the role of government funding, restoring control of capital movements, affirming the constitutional principle on the public ownership of the major companies of public service ... ).

Treatment in the media

François Asselineau has begun pseudonym to write for various magazines, and to analyze the reasons why the European unification in his opinion, " France into a political, economic, social and moral standstill of historic proportions ."

After the establishment of the UPR, he begins to hold a series of conferences in France and Belgium, their dissemination via the internet helps that he gains a considerable audience. According to the made ​​by Alexa Ranking on January 7, 2013 ranking of the 29 French parties, the UPR increases in global Internet consultations, a 4th place after the Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party) (PS) and in front of the Front de gauche ( union of several links flows) (FG ) a.

Although he is regularly invited by regional French media as well as two major Russian media (RIA Novosti and Russia Today ), François Asselineau continues to be absent in the major French media, which he accuses of wanting to censor him. As a declared candidate for the French 2012 presidential election, he is of the opinion that the French media have not complied with the recommendations of the Conseil supérieur de l' audiovisual. In response to his complaint, the Conseil supérieur de l' audiovisual has confirmed that any potential candidate treated equally, and all communication tools including Internet to measure the representativeness of the candidate should be considered.