Martial Bild (born 12 November 1961) is a French journalist and politician. A leading member of the National Front until 2008, he co-founded the

Party of France The Party of France (french: Parti de la France, PDF) is a political party in France. The PDF was founded on 23 February 2009 by National Front MEP Carl Lang. Carl Lang was known for his opposition to Marine Le Pen's possible candidacy to th ...

in 2009, and the web television

TV Libertés TV Libertés, or TVL (English: "TV Liberties"), is a French far-right Web TV launched in January 2014. The group is led by Philippe Milliau and Martial Bild, a former Front National leader. TV Libertés is recognized by observers for its professio ...

in 2014.

Biography

Born in 1961, Martial Bild was member of the

Party of New Forces Parti des forces nouvelles (PFN) or Party of New Forces was a French far-right political party formed in November 1974 from the ''Comité faire front'', a group of anti-Jean-Marie Le Pen dissidents who had split from the National Front (FN). De ...

between 1979 and 1981, and joined the National Front (FN) in 1980. He studied history at Tolbiac university but dropped out, then obtained a DEUG in history at the Institut catholique de Paris. In 1986 Bild became the president of the

Front National de la Jeunesse Rassemblement national de la jeunesse (RNJ), formerly the Front National de la Jeunesse (FNJ; en, National Youth Front; 1973–2018) and the Génération Nation (GN; en, Nation Generation; 2018–2022), is the youth organization of the French N ...

and was elected to the FN political bureau. In 1992, he was elected as a FN regional counselor for

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. In 2000, Bild was the secretary of the FN federation of Paris. In January 2009, following the election of Marine Le Pen as the new head of the FN and after he had supported her rival

Bruno Gollnisch Bruno Gollnisch (; born 28 January 1950) is a French academic and politician, a member of the National Front (France), National Front (FN) History of far-right movements in France, far-right party. He was a member of the Member of the European ...

, he announced his departure from the party to co-found with

Carl Lang Carl Lang (born 20 September 1957) is a French politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the North-West constituency. He was member of the National Front from 1978 to 2008; he is currently president and co-founder of the Party ...

the

. In 2014, he co-founded the YouTube channel

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He considers real equality "at the origin of ideologies dismissing democracy, and the source of misery and the Terror." On nationalism, he says that it is "not dangerous—there is not sentiment of hatred. On the contrary the rallying of peoples is good, emphasising the equality of men, and has nothing to do with hating other people. Rather, the nation is fundamental and natural." He belongs to the "national-catholic" wing of the far-right and is opposed to French laws on abortion.

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