Sovereignty, Identity and Freedoms (, SIEL) is a French political party led by

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. Originally described as right-wing

sovereigntist Sovereigntism, sovereignism or souverainism (from , , meaning "the ideology of sovereignty") is the notion of having control over one's conditions of existence, whether at the level of the self, social group, region, nation or globe. Typically ...

, it later moved towards

Identitarianism The Identitarian movement or Identitarianism is a pan-European nationalist, ethno-nationalist, far-right ideological movement centred on the preservation of white European identity, which it claims is under existential threat from multicultu ...

. The party had 2,000 members in 2016. The party was founded in 2011 by eurosceptic

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in the run-up to the 2012 elections. The party was formerly the only other party that was part of the Rassemblement bleu Marine coalition of

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, which it left in 2016. The party counts among its members

Renaud Camus Renaud Camus (; ; born Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus on 10 August 1946) is a French novelist and conspiracy theorist. He is the originator of the far-right "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, which claims that a "global elite" is colluding again ...

, creator of the

Great Replacement The Great Replacement (), also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory, is a debunked white nationalist far-right conspiracy theoryPT71. espoused by French author Renaud Camus. The original theory states that, with the complicit ...

conspiracy theory, as well as anti-Islam activists

Pierre Cassen Pierre Cassen (born 24 January 1953) is a French writer and the founder of the anti-Islam news portal Riposte Laïque. Biography Cassen is described as an old Trotskyist and former member of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), and was a ...

and

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. The party advocates

Remigration Remigration is a far-right European concept of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation or promoted voluntary return of non-white immigrants and their descendants, usually including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry, often ...

of immigrants.

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