National Rally

Extracted Attributes

• Country

  France

• Founded

  1972

• Ideology

  Right-wing populist, nationalist, anti-immigration, protectionist, economic interventionism

• Full Name

  National Rally

• Accusations

  Promoting xenophobia and antisemitism

• Former Name

  National Front (Front national)

• French Name

  Rassemblement national

• Political Position

  Far-right

• Parliamentary Status

  Single largest opposition party in the National Assembly (since 2022)

• Key Policy - Immigration

  Significant cuts to legal immigration, protection of French identity, stricter control of illegal immigration

• Key Policy - Law and Order

  Zero tolerance for breaches of law and order

• Key Policy - European Union

  Reform of the EU (not leaving), keep the Euro, remain in Schengen Area (with restrictions for non-EEA nationals)

• Key Policy - Foreign Policy

  More balanced and independent French foreign policy, opposition to military intervention in Africa, opposition to France leaving NATO's integrated command

Timeline

• The party is founded as the National Front (FN) by Jean-Marie Le Pen, Ordre Nouveau, François Duprat, and François Brigneau, intended as a political vehicle for the far-right movement. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia, Web Search)

  1972-01-01

• The National Front puts forward a candidate at the presidential election for the first time. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  1974-01-01

• The party's role as a nationalist electoral force grows considerably, moving from marginal influence. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  1984-01-01

• Jean-Marie Le Pen advances to the second round of the presidential election, finishing a distant second to Jacques Chirac. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2002-01-01

• Marine Le Pen begins her tenure as a Member of the European Parliament. (Source: Web Search)

  2004-01-01

• Jean-Marie Le Pen resigns as party leader; his daughter Marine Le Pen is elected to succeed him. Marine Le Pen begins a policy of "de-demonisation" to soften the party's image. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2011-01-01

• Marine Le Pen contests the French presidential election. (Source: Web Search)

  2012-01-01

• Jean-Marie Le Pen is suspended and subsequently expelled from the party by Marine Le Pen. The FN establishes itself as a major political party in France. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2015-01-01

• Marine Le Pen reaches the second round of the presidential election, receiving 33.9% of the votes but losing to Emmanuel Macron. She also begins serving as a deputy of the National Assembly. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web Search)

  2017-01-01

• Marine Le Pen proposes renaming the party to Rassemblement National (National Rally), which is confirmed by a ballot of party members. An EU court rules that Marine Le Pen improperly allocated €300,000 in EU funds. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web Search (Britannica))

  2018-06-01

• The National Rally changes its policy from strongly Eurosceptic to campaigning for a reform of the EU and retaining the Euro. The European Court of Justice dismisses Marine Le Pen's appeal regarding the misuse of EU funds. (Source: Wikipedia, Web Search (Britannica))

  2019-01-01

• Marine Le Pen announces the party's desire to remain in the Schengen Area, but to reserve free movement to nationals of a European Economic Area country. She temporarily resigns as party president. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2021-01-01

• Marine Le Pen loses to Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election, receiving 41.45% of the votes. Jordan Bardella assumes the leadership of the party. The National Rally achieves a significant increase in its MPs in the National Assembly, from 7 to 89 seats, becoming the single largest opposition party. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2022-01-01

• The National Rally wins the European Parliament elections with 31.4% of the votes, leading President Emmanuel Macron to announce a snap legislative election. An RN-led right-wing coalition tops the first round of the snap French legislative election with a record 33.2% of the votes. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Related Documents)

  2024-06-01

• The National Rally wins the popular vote (37.06%) in the second round of the snap legislative election but secures the third-highest number of seats due to strategic political maneuvers. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Related Documents)

  2024-07-07

• 25 National Rally members, including Marine Le Pen, are convicted of embezzlement for using European Parliament funds to fund National Rally staff. Sentences for several MEPs include bans on running for political office. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2025-03-31

National Rally

The National Rally (French: Rassemblement national, [ʁasɑ̃bləmɑ̃ nɑsjɔnal], RN), known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018 (French: Front national, [fʁɔ̃ nɑsjɔnal], FN), is a French far-right political party, described as right-wing populist and nationalist. It is the single largest parliamentary opposition party in the National Assembly since 2022. It opposes immigration, advocating significant cuts to legal immigration, protection of French identity, and stricter control of illegal immigration. The party advocates a "more balanced" and "independent" French foreign policy, opposing French military intervention in Africa while supporting France leaving NATO's integrated command. It also supports reform of the European Union (EU), economic interventionism, protectionism, and zero tolerance for breaches of law and order. The party was founded in 1972 by the Ordre Nouveau to be the legitimate political vehicle for the far-right movement. Jean-Marie Le Pen was its founder and leader until his resignation in 2011. While its influence was marginal until 1984, the party's role as a nationalist electoral force has grown considerably. It has put forward a candidate at every presidential election but one since 1974. In the 2002 presidential election, Jean-Marie Le Pen advanced to the second round but finished a distant second in the runoff to Jacques Chirac. His daughter Marine Le Pen was elected to succeed him as party leader in 2012. Jordan Bardella assumed the leadership in 2022. The party has seen an increase in its popularity and acceptance in French society in recent years. It has been accused of promoting xenophobia and antisemitism. While her father was nicknamed the "Devil of the Republic" by mainstream media and sparked outrage for hate speech, including Holocaust denial and Islamophobia, Marine Le Pen pursued a policy of "de-demonisation", trying to frame the party as being neither right nor left. She endeavoured to extract it from its far-right roots, as well as censuring controversial members like her father, who was suspended and then expelled from the party in 2015. Following her election as the leader of the party in 2011, the popularity of the FN grew. By 2015, the FN had established itself as a major political party in France. Sources traditionally label the party as far-right. However, some media outlets have started to refer to the party as "right-wing populist" or "nationalist right" instead, arguing that it has substantially moderated from its years under Jean-Marie Le Pen. At the FN congress of 2018, Marine Le Pen proposed renaming the party Rassemblement National (National Rally), and this was confirmed by a ballot of party members. Formerly strongly Eurosceptic, the National Rally changed policies in 2019, deciding to campaign for a reform of the EU rather than leaving it and to keep the euro as the main currency of France (together with the CFP franc for some collectivities). In 2021, Le Pen announced that she wanted to remain in the Schengen Area, but to reserve free movement to nationals of a European Economic Area country, excluding residents of and visitors from another Schengen country. Le Pen reached the second round of the 2017 presidential election, receiving 33.9% of the votes in the run-off and losing to Emmanuel Macron. Again in the 2022 election, she lost to Macron in the run-off, receiving 41.45% of the votes. In the 2022 parliamentary elections, the National Rally achieved a significant increase in the number of its MPs in the National Assembly, from 7 to 89 seats. In June 2024, the party won the European Parliament elections in a landslide with 31.4% of the votes. This caused Macron to announce a snap election. Later that month, an RN-led right-wing coalition topped the first round of the snap French legislative election with a record 33.2% of the votes. On 7 July, the RN also won the popular vote (37.06%) in the second round of the snap election, but only won the third highest number of seats. On 31 March 2025, 25 National Rally members (including Le Pen, former MEPs, and their assistants) were convicted of embezzlement for using European Parliament funds to fund National Rally staff. The sentences for several MEPs, including Le Pen, included bans on running for political office.

Web Search Results

• National Rally - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  The National Rally (French: _Rassemblement national_ or RN) is a far rightpolitical party in France. It used to be called the National Front until 2018. The party is patriotic.( The party is very Eurosceptic( (meaning they are against the European Union) and wants to limit immigration.( Marine Le Pen supports letting the government control health, education, transportation, banking and energy.( Critics say that the ideology of the RN focuses on bad attitudes on immigrants.( History [...] | Marine Le Pen took over as the president of the party in 2011 and contested the 2012, 2017 and 2022 French presidential elections. She served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2017 and has served as a deputy of the National Assembly of France "National Assembly (France)") since 2017. Under her leadership, the party was renamed _National Rally_ in 2018. | | 3 | Image 8.jpg) Jordan Bardella | 5 November 2022 _Acting since 13 September 2021_ | Incumbent | [...] Scots "Naitional Rally (Fraunce) – Scots") Slovenčina Српски / srpski "Национални савез (Француска) – Serbian") Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska ไทย "ชุมนุมแห่งชาติ (ฝรั่งเศส) – Thai") Türkçe "Ulusal Birlik (Fransa) – Turkish") Українська "Національне об'єднання (Франція) – Ukrainian") Tiếng Việt 粵語 "國民陣線 (法國) – Cantonese") 中文 "國民聯盟 (法國) – Chinese")

• France's National Rally marches toward power - GIS Reports

  For many years since its creation in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French far-right party National Front – now the National Rally (Rassemblement National or RN) – had been considered as an aberration in the country’s political landscape. Its founder was overtly racist and antisemitic, which did not sit well in a country that had to come to terms with its collaboration with the Nazis during the World War II and heal the “wounds of guilt” from its war with Algeria (1954-1962). [...] The National Rally started as a reactionary movement that gradually became a worker’s and now also a youth party. As one-third of the French electorate are now National Rally voters, they can no longer be ignored, even if one disagrees with them. There are three scenarios of National Rally development to consider. ### Most likely: National Rally attracts more center-right voters and politicians [...] However, things have changed: the National Rally has gradually softened its ideology and is now the major player in French politics, despite many years of ostracization attempts from the established political system. The party won nearly a third of the vote for the European parliament elections in June, well ahead the presidential party, which came second with less than half that. During the most recent French legislative elections in June and July 2024, the National Rally won in terms of

• National Rally | History, Members, Policies, & Platform | Britannica

  National Rally, far right French political party founded in 1972 by François Duprat and François Brigneau. It is most commonly associated with Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was its leader from 1972 to 2011, and his daughter Marine Le Pen, who succeeded her father in 2011 and led the party until 2022. Since its beginnings, the party has strongly supported French nationalism and controls on immigration, and it often has been accused of fostering xenophobia and antisemitism. [...] In June 2018 Le Pen announced that the National Front would change its name to Rassemblement National (National Rally), in an apparent effort to distance the party from its overtly neofascist and antisemitic past. Later that month an EU court ruled that Le Pen had improperly allocated some €300,000 in EU funds and ordered her to repay the sum. Le Pen appealed the decision, but in May 2019 the European Court of Justice dismissed her appeal and ordered her to pay court costs. The National Rally [...] In June 2018 Le Pen announced that the party was changing its name to the National Rally in an effort to stoke populist resistance to the “arrogant tyranny” of the European Union (EU). At that time Le Pen and other party officials were under investigation for the misappropriation of millions of euros in EU funds, but Le Pen denounced the criminal probe as politically motivated. The rebranding of the party did appear to bear some fruit in European Parliament elections in 2019, with the National

• On the brink of power: how France's National Rally reinvented itself

  In 2018, she changed the party’s name to National Rally. The party recently took a case to France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’État, arguing that it should no longer be labeled far-right by the interior ministry, but its case was dismissed and France officially classes the party as far-right. [...] He warned that “history and morality” would no longer work to hold back the rise of National Rally (Rassemblement National – RN), which was already the foremost working-class party in France, and expanding its vote among young people and public sector workers. [...] Political opponents of Marine Le Pen’s poll-leading National Rally are seizing on the far-right party’s history to try to mobilise voters against it in the run-up to France’s snap election. Leftwing and centrist politicians have sought to remind voters that when Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founded the party – originally named Front National – in 1972, its ranks included former members of a Waffen SS military unit under Nazi command during the second world war.

• France's Far-Right National Rally Rebranded Itself. Here's How ...

  In 2018, Ms. Le Pen renamed the party the National Rally and broadened its platform to include pocketbook issues. [...] In an Ipsos Reid-Sopra Steria poll published in October, 44 percent of French respondents said they considered the National Rally capable of governing. Beyond that, the party’s hard-line positions on immigration and crime have become increasingly mainstream. Last year, Parliament’s immigration bill incorporated many elements from the R.N. agenda, although the country’s constitutional court blocked many of the policies soon afterward.

• Instance Of

  Q4167410

The National Rally (French: Rassemblement National, pronounced [ʁasɑ̃bləmɑ̃ nasjɔnal]; RN), until 2018 known as the National Front (French: Front National, pronounced [fʁɔ̃ nasjɔnal]; FN), is a far-right political party in France. It is the largest parliamentary opposition group in the National Assembly and the party has seen its candidate reach the second round in the 2002, 2017 and 2022 presidential elections. It is an anti-immigration party, advocating significant cuts to legal immigration and protection of French identity, as well as stricter control of illegal immigration. It also advocates for a 'more balanced' and 'independent' French foreign policy by opposing French military intervention in Africa and by distancing France from the American sphere of influence by leaving NATO's integrated command. It has opposed the European Union (EU) and its related organisations. It also supports French economic interventionism and protectionism, and its economic and social policies are often classified as left leaning; it has a zero tolerance approach towards law and order. The party has been accused of promoting xenophobia and antisemitism. The party was founded in 1972 to unify the French nationalist movement. Its political views are nationalist, nativist and anti-globalist. Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the party and was its leader until his resignation in 2011. While the party struggled as a marginal force for its first ten years, since 1984 it has been a major force of French nationalism. It has put forward a candidate at every presidential election but one since 1974. In 2002, Jean-Marie came second in the first round, but finished a distant second in the runoff to Jacques Chirac. His daughter Marine Le Pen was elected to succeed him as party leader in 2012. She temporarily stepped down in 2017 in order to concentrate on her presidential candidacy, but resumed her presidency after the election. She headed the party until 2021, when she temporarily resigned again. A year later, Jordan Bardella was elected as her successor. The party has seen a spectacular increase in its popularity and acceptance in French society in recent years. While her father was nicknamed the "Devil of the Republic" by mainstream media and sparked outrage for hate speech, including Holocaust denial and Islamophobia, Marine Le Pen pursued a policy of "de-demonisation" of the party by softening its image and trying to frame the party as being neither right nor left. She endeavoured to extract it from its far-right cultural roots and normalise it by giving it a culture of government, as well as censuring controversial members like her father, who was suspended and then expelled from the party in 2015. Following her election as the leader of the party in 2011, the popularity of the FN grew. By 2015, the FN had established itself as a major political party in France. At the FN congress of 2018, Marine Le Pen proposed renaming the party Rassemblement national (National Rally), and this was confirmed by a ballot of party members. Formerly strongly Eurosceptic, the National Rally changed policies in 2019, deciding to campaign for a reform of the EU rather than leaving it and to keep the euro as the main currency of France (together with the CFP franc for some collectivities). In 2021, Le Pen announced that she wanted to remain in the Schengen Area, citing "an attachment to the European spirit", but to reserve free movement to nationals of a European Economic Area country, excluding residents and visitors of another Schengen country.