Rally for France

Infobox French Political Party
party_name = Rassemblement pour la France
party_
party_wikicolourid = UMP
leader = Charles Pasqua
foundation = 1999
ideology = Gaullism, Souverainism, Euro-scepticism, Conservatism | european = Union for Europe of the Nations
international =
colours = Blue
président =
headquarters = RPF 129, avenue Charles de Gaulle92521 Neuilly-sur-Seine Cedex
website = http://perso.orange.fr/jf47/rpf47/index.htm
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EPseats = ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:78TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:darkgray value:rgb(0.27,0.27,0.27) id:midgray value:rgb(0.57,0.57,0.57) id:blue value:rgb(0.07, 0.44, 0.76) id:green value:rgb(0.38, 0.73, 0.27) id:orange value:rgb(1, 0.55, 0) id:red value:rgb(0.80,0, 0)BarData = bar:Wikipedias PlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:78 color:gray width:0.2in text:/78 bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:0 color:blue width:0.2in text:0The Rally for France (French: "Rassemblement pour la France" (RPF), also briefly known in 2003 as Rally for France and European Independence or "Rassemblement pour la France et l'Indépendance de l'Europe") is a political party in France of the right. It was founded in 1999 by the current party president, former Gaullist Charles Pasqua, then allied with Philippe de Villiers (formerly of the Union for French Democracy (UDF)), and aims to fight against globalisation and European federalism. The party is opposed to further European integration. The acronym RPF was an explicit nod to Charles de Gaulle's Rassemblement du Peuple Français.Fact|date=January 2008

The new party enjoyed early electoral success when it placed second in the 1999 European Parliament election in France, scoring 13 percent of the vote and winning 13 seats. This placed it behind the Socialist Party and ahead of the established centre-right parties, the Gaullist Rally for the Republic and the UDF. However Philippe de Villiers' departure at the end of 2000 in order to refound his Movement for France (MPF) severely damaged the party and Pasqua failed to run at the 2002 Presidential elections. The RPF has since suffered several setbacks in various elections and has failed to regain its 1999-2000 momentum, and has been eclipsed by the MPF as a party of the Eurosceptic right in France.Fact|date=January 2008 The party managed to win two seats in the 2002 National Assembly election), but lost all its MEPs in the 2004 European election.

ee also

*Movement for France
*Rally of the French People
*http://perso.orange.fr/jf47/rpf47/index.htm