Popular Republican Union (2007)

UPR runs on an anti-EU platform stating that all French policy decisions are made by an "unelected oligarchy, not French," leading to the political disaffection of the French public, and that the continued rule of the EU over European affairs will lead to a "global apartheid".[19] UPR promotes that withdrawal from the European Union and the euro by the usage of TEU Article 50[20] as a first step to get France out of its current crisis by regaining capital, goods and person flow regulation control.[19] For military sovereignty, UPR also consider France withdrawal from the NATO.[10]

UPR also favors nationalisation of entities such as TF1, La Poste, Gaz de France,[21] highways, water management and troubled banks.[19]

• Constitutional reforms would only be allowed by referendum.
• Reintroduction of articles of the Constitution; the one about the "Conspiracy against the state" and the other about the "Treachary of the President", which had been removed in 1993 and 2007.
• The instauration of popular initiative referendums like in Switzerland.
• When the protest votes win an election, the election will be reorganised excluding the previous candidates.
• To stop forced regroupments of communes.
• To withdraw France from the EU, euro and NATO.
• To make up with Russia, China, Arab states and Latin American states.
• To be a non-allied country.
• To prohibit electronic voting.
• To establish a Constitutional court like the one in Germany.
• To establish a quorum of 60% of parliament attendance.
• To make media's fund public.
• To protect whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.
• To nationalise water, electricity, railways, highways, the communication company Orange, banks receiving public aid and the post.
• To ban lobbying inside the parliament.
• To make think tanks' fund public.
• To raise the minimum wage to 1300 euros per month from 1153.
• To establish a minimum retirement benefit of 950 euros per month.
• To ban genetically modified crops.

In February 2012, François Asselineau and his party, UPR, claimed they were "barred from the major media" ("barrés des grands médias") and "banned from going on the air" ("interdits d'antenne") as "[their] ideas are upsetting" ("[leur] discours dérange").[21] In 2014, UPR described itself as being "the most censored party in France".[22]

On 23 April 2014, François Asselineau's party sent a registered letter to Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (Audiovisual Superior Council) to demand "urgent action regarding the mainstream broadcasting media to have them accept UPR at last in their broadcasts".

The "news blackout" that Asselineau allegedly had to deal with was criticized again after the 2014 European elections, as his party obtained slightly more votes than Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (0.41% vs 0.39%) without further attracting attention from the mainstream media.[23]

In March 2012, Asselineau complained about the "censorship" he faced on French Wikipedia from which his article had been deleted several times for lack of renown.[23][24][25] In February 2013, UPR complained about what it called "the ill treatment of François Asselineau and UPR on Wikipedia", with an extended report on the subject established by the "Groupe Wiki de l'UPR – Cybermilitantisme" (the "UPR Wiki Group- Internet activism").

Asselineau and his team are very active on the Internet:[26] UPR claim to have developed "solely on the Internet" ("exclusivement en ligne")[27] and bank above all on this activism to try to become notable.[24] Rudy Reichstadt characterizes UPR as "a real phenomenon on the Internet", noting that it is "difficult to miss it when one is interested in the conspiracist circles" ("difficile de passer à côté lorsqu'on s'intéresse à la mouvance complotiste").[26] In 2012, UPR created the position of "national manager for Internet activism" ("responsable national au cybermilitantisme"), whose responsibility is to develop and coordinate the various people conducting such activism ("actions cybermilitantes").

However, there has been some backlash to this activism. Laurent de Boissieu mentions the harassment that "every journalist has had to deal with, one day or another, at the hands of some UPR activists".[28] Laurent Ruquier likewise noted that he invited François Asselineau to On n'est pas couché because of incessant Twitter pressure.[29] After the broadcast of this program, an article on the collaborative website of L'Obs (Le Plus) expressed doubts about the granting of speaking time to "this kind of conspiracist",[30] while Causeur suggested that Laurent Ruquier had in fact invited Asselineau in order to ridicule his anti-European ideas.[31]

The 28 october 2018, the CSA considered that France 5 has failed to comply with its obligation of rigour by assimilating the UPR to an extreme right-wing party.[32]

UPR claim to be a growing party despite what they deem to be "a blacklisting from the national media".[21] The party has thus developed exclusively online strategies; Asselineau's conferences, for instance, have gathered more than two million views.[33] UPR states theirs is the most visited French political party website as evidenced by their Alexa rank.[34]

In 2013, the university researcher, Jean-Yves Camus doubts the reality of membership figures.[35]

The 15 December 2016, UPR knows a large success : it counts from now on 14 000 membership, with an average of +26 membership per day.[36]

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