Popular Republican Union (other)
Popular Republican Union may refer to: * Popular Republican Union (1919–1946) * Popular Republican Union (2007) See also * Republican Union (other) Republican Union may refer to: *Republican Union (France) *Republican Union (French Somaliland) *Republican Union (Portugal) *Republican Union (Puerto Rico) * Republican Union (Spain, 1886) *Republican Union Party (Spain) *Republican Union (Spain, ...

Popular Republican Union (1919–1946)
The Popular Republican Union (french: Union populaire républicaine, UPR) was a Christian democratic party in Alsace, France during the Third Republic. The UPR became the dominant party in Alsace during the Interwar era. In Lorraine, the Lorrain Republican Union (URL) was considered the UPR's sister party. Founded in 1919, the UPR attracted most of the Alsatian adherents of the Catholic Centre Party in Alsace-Lorraine, formed since the mid-1890s, forming with 31% of the seats the strongest party in the Landtag of the former Alsace-Lorraine. Ideologically, the UPR was much more conservative than the social-Catholic Popular Democratic Party, but more moderate than the main French Catholic party, the Republican Federation. During the 1920s its members had largely sat in parliament among the Republican Federation group. Considering this to have grown too right-wing, French-nationalist and centralist, they set up their own parliamentary group: the Republicans of the Centre (1 ...
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Popular Republican Union (2007)
The Popular Republican Union (french: Union Populaire Républicaine) is a political party in France, founded in 2007 by François Asselineau. The ideology of the party is a hard Eurosceptic, and seeks the withdrawal of France from the European Union and the Eurozone. History Foundation After leaving the UMP (2006) and the ''Rally for an Independent and Sovereign France'' (RIF, :fr:Rassemblement pour l'indépendance et la souveraineté de la France) where Asselineau was a member of the steering committee for 3 months, in 2007, for the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty signature, he created the Popular Republican Union (UPR). 2012 presidential election Asselineau confirmed his candidacy for the 2012 French presidential election in December 2011 during the national congress of the party.Houchard, Béatrice"Asselineau candidat à la présidentielle" ''Le Parisien'', 3 December 2011. Retrieved on 1 October 2013 Asselineau was finally not among the ten candidates officially ...
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