Union and French fraternity

The Union and French fraternity (UFF) constituted, of 1956 with 1958, the parliamentary group of the Union of defense of the tradesmen and craftsmen (UDCA), the trade union of Pierre Poujade.

With the watchword " Leave the sortants" , this movement obtained 52 deputies (2,4 million votes, 11,6%) with the National Assembly in 1956. It was, like the other parties opposed to the mode of the IVe République (French Communist party, Rassemblement of French people,…) penalized by the electoral law which supported the lists " apparentées" , i.e. those likely to find allies and thus to form a majority in a very divided Parliament.

Among them Jean-Marie Le Pen, 27 years and younger elected deputy was who was going to become thereafter the outstanding figure of the Extrême right-hand side in France. Was there also Henri Dorgères, former country leader of pre-war period. After the election, 11 deputies UFF were invalidated, following the dispute of political alliance of lists, which all were poujadists. It was about political alliance with the lists Union of defense of the farmers (UDAF) and civic Action. These invalidation, undoubtedly contestatbles on the bottom, were however completely legally decided. The polemic that they involved was undoubtedly not foreign with the decision, after 1958, to no longer entrust the dispute of the legislative elections to the deputies themselves, but to the Constitutional council.

Group UFF will undergo other invalidation and will have nothing any more but 30 deputies at the end of the legislature. 3 deputies were to dissociate themselves thereafter from their group, Demarquet, Dides and Jean-Marie Le Pen, which was excluded from the UFF in 1957.

3 fundamental interventions with the National Assembly:

Bill asking for the convocation of General states in April 1956 in order to give again the word with the people, declared inadmissible by the office of the Parliament and consequently not subjected to the vote of the deputies. Its goal: to add to the Parliament General states, with an aim of proposal and consultation. I.e. to add a sociological representation to a geographical representation.
Vote against the socialist government of Guy Mollet which required, with the assistance of the Britanniques, military forwarding in Egypt for the Suez Canal, in 1956.
Bill asking the launching of the agro-fuel (Bio-fuel) in order to reduce the dependence of the France out of oil and to bring direct and renewable resources to agriculture and everyone rural, in May 1958.

It should be noted that the UFF gave an opinion for the maintenance of the French Algérie and was hostile in Europe of the the Treaty of Rome, first base of the European Union, like at the international agencies in general, in which she sees dissolving French sovereignty.

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