Comités Jeanne

Comités Jeanne
Leader Jean-Marie Le Pen
General Secretary Lorrain de Saint Affrique
Founded March 22, 2016 (2016-03-22)
Split from National Front (France)
Headquarters

8, parc de Montretout

92210 Saint-Cloud
Ideology Nationalism
Social Conservatism
Euroscepticism
Souverainism
Political position Far-right[1]
International affiliation Alliance for Peace and Freedom
Colors red, blue, and white
Slogan Jeanne, au secours!
European deputies
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Website
jeanneausecours.com

The Comités Jeanne is a political party founded by Jean Marie Le Pen after his exclusion from the National Front in France in 2015.

Creation

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and leader of the National Front (FN) party in France, was initially suspended from the party in May 2015 after claiming that the Holocaust was "a detail of history". After Le Pen successfully challenged the suspension in court, an extraordinary party congress was held in August 2015, and he was expelled from the party.[2]

After considering the creation of a "blue-white-red gathering" in order to "act in the same direction as the national Front" without necessarily belonging to it, he announced, in March 2016, the creation of the Comités Jeanne, named after Joan of Arc,[3] whose slogan is "Jeanne, au secours!" ("Joan, help!" in English), to weigh on the political line of the FN,[4] and planned to present candidates under this label in the legislative elections of 2017, including against FN candidates.[5]

He called on supporters to vote for the FN in the regional elections of 2015 and indicated that the fund-raising organization "Cotelec" had lent six million euros to the FN for the presidential campaign of 2017.[6]

On November 17, 2016, a court of justice in France validated the exclusion of Jean-Marie Le Pen from the National Front without questioning his status as honorary president, thus retaining his right to be summoned to all the party's meetings.[7]

Campaigns and organization

The party's president is Jean-Marie Le Pen.[3] Lorrain de Saint Affrique was general secretary since 2016.[8] The cartel involving the Jeanne committees is unable to access public funding, having raised more than 1% of the votes cast in 41 constituencies, or less than the 50 constituencies required.[9][10]

For the French presidential election of 2017, Jean-Marie Le Pen officially said that he supported his daughter Marine Le Pen's presidential bid.[11] For the French legislative election of 2017, the Comités Jeanne made an alliance with the Party of France, Civitas, League of the south, and SIeL.[12] Jean-Marie Le Pen also traveled to recruit legislative candidates under the banner "Jeanne, au secours!"[13][14]

References

  1. ↑ Comités Jeanne (CJ) France politique
  2. ↑ "French National Front expels founder Jean-Marie Le Pen". BBC News. 20 August 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Jean-Marie Le Pen lance des comités "Jeanne d'Arc, au secours !"". www.europe1.fr. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Jean-Marie Le Pen crée les comités "Jeanne, au secours!" pour peser sur le FN". Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Jean-Marie Le Pen, ostracisé par sa propre famille politique". Le Monde.fr. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "Le Front national fait la manche pour la présidentielle". 3 October 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  7. ↑ Samuel, Henry (17 November 2016). "Jean-Marie Le Pen must remain Front National's 'honorary president', French court rules, in blow for daughter Marine". The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "Communiqué de presse des Comités Jeanne". 26 April 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  9. ↑ "Jean-Marie Le Pen prêt à forcer la porte pour assister au bureau politique du FN". 14 June 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  10. ↑ "Quels partis auront accès au financement public 2018-2022?". www.ipolitique.fr. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  11. ↑ "«Moi, je vote Marine», annonce Jean-Marie Le Pen". 17 April 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  12. ↑ "Les bannis du FN font listes communes pour les législatives". Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  13. ↑ "Jean-Marie Le Pen recrute pour les comités "Jeanne, au secours !"". Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  14. ↑ "Jeanne, au secours ! – Législatives 2017". www.jeanneausecours.com.
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