Rally for France

Rassemblement pour la France et l' indépendance de l'Europe (RPF -IE), originally only Rassemblement pour la France (RPF ) is a party of the parliamentary national conservative Euro skeptics in France.

The party was founded in November 1999 by representatives of the set against the Maastricht Treaty majority of the now merged to form UMP Gaullist party RPR, led by Charles Pasqua and Philippe de Villiers. The latter left the party in 2000 and founded the Mouvement pour la France again, which was temporarily absorbed into the RPF. 2003, the RPF renamed in Rassemblement pour la France et l' indépendance de l'Europe, a name that had already been operating under the electoral lists of the RPF.

The greatest success was the RPF shortly before its foundation, as cited by the later party founders list for the European elections in 1999 with 13 percent of the vote was the second largest force after the Parti Socialiste and the RPR suggested scarce. In 2004, she missed the re-entry into the European Parliament.

In the 2002 presidential election the RPF chairman Charles Pasqua narrowly missed the necessary for a candidate supporters signatures. 2007 and 2012 the party renounced each in advance on a presidential candidate.

In the 2002 parliamentary elections, the RPF won two seats in the National Assembly. From 2002 to 2011, Charles Pasqua, a member of the Senate for the RPF.

The RPF -IE is a member of the Union pour un mouvement populaire party alliance.

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