Debout la France


Debout la France is a French political party founded by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in 1999 under the name Debout la République as the "genuine Gaullist" branch of the Rally for the Republic. It was relaunched again in 2000 and 2002 and held its inaugural congress as an autonomous party in 2008. At the 2014 congress its name was changed to Debout la France.
It is led by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who holds the party's one and only seat in the French National Assembly. Dupont-Aignan contested the 2012 Presidential election and received 644,043 votes in the first ballot, or 1.79% of the votes cast, finishing seventh. In 2007 he had failed to win the required 500 endorsements from elected officials to run in the 2007 presidential election. He dropped out without endorsing any candidate, not even UMP candidate and former President Nicolas Sarkozy. However, he was re-elected by the first round of the 2007 legislative election as a DLF candidate in his home department of Essonne.
The party was a member of EUDemocrats, a Eurosceptic transnational European political party. In 2019, for the European elections, the party joined forces with the CNIP to form an alliance named "Les Amoureux de la France", and announced its alliance with the European Conservatives and Reformists.

Popular support and electoral record

DLF has little electoral support, and its support is concentrated in Dupont-Aignan's department of Essonne, where the DLF list polled 5.02% in the 2009 European Parliament election and it polled up to 36.14% in his hometown of Yerres. The party also polled well in the Île-de-France region, the North-West and the East constituency. All of these regions include conservative and Gaullist departments.
In the 2012 presidential election the party's candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan obtained 1,79% of votes at the first round, and did not endorse any candidate in the second. In the following legislative elections Dupont-Aignan was elected to the National Assembly in Essonne's 8th constituency.
The European election of 2014 saw an increase of the party, who obtained 3,82% of votes, without managing to elect any MEP.
In the 2017 presidential election the party's candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan obtained 4,73% of votes at the first round. He later announced his endorsement for National Front's candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round. In the following legislative elections Dupont-Aignan was re-elected to the National Assembly.

Elections

Presidential elections

European Parliament

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
2009304,5851.77%0
2014744,4413.82%0
2019795,5083.51%0

Regional Parliament

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201584,8864.78%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201569,2853.35%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201571,5382.85%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201549,7745.17%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201534,9162.90%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201539,4064.58%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
2010119,8354.15%0
2015207,2866.57%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201580,3753.91%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
20159780.37%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201014,8802.25%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201553,3592.39%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201547,3914.14%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201551,8734.09%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201534,5991.95%0

Election yearNumber of votes% of overall vote# of seats won
201010,2371.79%0

Elected officials

is the only DLF member of the National Assembly. The party also claims 3 general councillors, and Mayors in four communes: Yerres, Cambrai, Saint-Prix and Ancinnes.