François Asselineau (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa asəlino] , born 14 September 1957) is a French politician and an Inspector General for finances.
Asselineau was a member of the Rally for France (RPF) and UMP before creating his own political party the Popular Republican Union (Union Populaire Républicaine or UPR). His movement promotes France's unilateral withdrawal from the European Union, the Eurozone and NATO. Asselineau and his political party, UPR, have been classified by the French government as "divers" ("diverse" in English); meaning that their analysis and positions are neither clearly leftist or rightist.
Asselineau has accused major French media of "censorship", due to the limited time he appeared on said media. In his critique he includes French Wikipedia, which had once considered him insufficiently noteworthy to justify a page in the encyclopedia. The activism of his supporters to try and increase media coverage of Asselineau and the UPR has been noted by some observers.
He ran in the 2017 French presidential election, presenting himself as the "Frexit candidate". He was eventually eliminated in the first round, earning 0.92% of the votes. For the 2022 presidential election he failed to secure 500 sponsorships from elected officials in order to run.
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