The Student Cockade (french: Cocarde étudiante) is a rightwing

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French

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, founded in 2015 at the

University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', whic ...

in France. It claims presence in 22 different universities across France.

History

The Student Cockade was founded on 6 May 2015 in the Panthéon-Assas University as a split of the already existing right wing student union

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(UNI), it was founded as a way to unite the different youth wings of the right wing political parties in France, (mostly, Droite Populaire,

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, Parti chrétien-démocrate) During the year 2018 the Student Cockade was made famous by its fierce and sometimes violent opposition to university blocus. During the student elections of 2019 at the

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, fighting broke out between a group of Student Cockade members and left wing

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groups, the student cockade won multiple seats after the incident. During the 2020 student elections in France, numerous incident opposed the student cockade to left wing student groups and antifascist mouvements, but the Student Cockade managed to win multiple seats in Sorbonne, Assas, Nanterre and other universities.

History

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