Nicolas Dupont-Aignan defended a sovereignist and Eurosceptic line. In 2021, he had eased against the sanitary pass and the vaccinal pass.
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For his third candidacy for a presidential election, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan brought up 2.2% of the vote in the first round, Sunday, April 10. The member for Essonne had collected 4.7% in 2017 before calling for a vote for the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, in the second round, in exchange for the position of Prime Minister in the event of a victory of this last. He has since broken his alliance with the national gathering.
In 2021, the party of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan experienced severe haemorrhage. He recognized the end of the lips “25 departures”. In reality, 134 of its executives rallied Marine Le Pen on March 22, 2021, of which his substitute for the Assembly, his Vice-President, his director general, and number of departmental officials.
“Vaccine Freedom “
Claiming “Gaullism”, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan defends a sovereignist and Eurosceptic line. Member of the RPR (the ancestor of the Republicans), he was elected Mayor of Yerres (Essonne) for the first time in 1995. On a background of disagreement with Nicolas Sarkozy, he founded in 2008 his own movement, standing the Republic, before obtaining 1.79% of the votes in 2012 at its first candidacy for the presidential election. He renamed his movement standing France (DLF) in 2014.
The elected of Essonne intended to multiply the referendums, on Europe, immigration, school, justice, secularism. And even impose a “revocate referendum”. In 2021, it has eased against the sanitary pass and the vaccinal pass, alongside Florian Philippot, which joined it, for “vaccine freedom”.
polemics
In March, Mr Philippot boasted the existence of an “agreement” with standing France for the legislative elections and claimed a “enrichment” of the presidential program of Nicolas Dupont-aignan by the “holding of A referendum on the belonging of France to the European Union “. While Florian Philippot was favorable at the exit of France from the European Union, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan wanted him to replace the latter, “destructive of our democracy”, by a “free nations community”. The two men also proposed to prohibit any confinement in the Constitution.
During the Presidential Campaign, the 61-year-old tried to generate several controversy to draw attention to his candidacy, including denouncing a “rigged” election. He pointed to a “certain instrumentalization of the Ukrainian drama”, allowing, according to him, to eclipse the presidential campaign.
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