He proceeded to build up his political base among France's several conservative parties, with a goal of reconstituting the Gaullist UDR into a neo-Gaullist group, the Rally for the Republic ( RPR ).

Papon was elected deputy of Cher as candidate of the Union of Democrats for the Republic ( UDR, Gaullist Party ) in May 1968.

The Union for the Defence of the Republic ( 1968, ) or Union of Democrats for the Republic ( 1968 – 1976, ), commonly abbreviated UDR, was a Gaullist political party of France from 1968 to 1976.

Chirac became Prime minister and became the leader of the UDR in December 1974, in spite of the negative opinions of many historical Gaullist personalities ( Michel Debré, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, etc .).

Charles Pasqua was first elected deputy of the UDR Gaullist party in 1968, ten years after having founded the Service d ' Action Civique ( SAC ) organisation.

The SNP, although being a predominantly social-democratic party, joined the European Progressive Democrats, which was led by the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, the SDLP the Socialist Group, VU and FDF the heterogeneous Technical Group of Independents, which comprised both conservative and left-wing MEPs, and the SVP the European People's Party group.

Although Chirac was well-situated in de Gaulle's entourage, being related by marriage to the general's sole companion at the time of the Appeal of 18 June 1940, he was more of a " Pompidolian " than a " Gaullist ".

" Jacques Foccart, who had also co-founded the Gaullist Service d ' Action Civique ( SAC, dissolved by Mitterrand in 1982 ) along with Charles Pasqua, and who was a key component of the " Françafrique " system, was again called to the Elysée Palace when Chirac won the 1995 presidential election.

Foucault was also selected to be among the " Eighteen Man Commission " that assembled between November 1963 and March 1964 to discuss university reforms that were to be implemented by Christian Fouchet, the Gaullist Minister of National Education.

In the early 1980s, Le Pen's personal security was assured by KO International Company, a subsidiary of VHP Security, a private security firm, and an alleged front organisation for SAC, the Service d ' Action Civique ( Civic Action Service ), a Gaullist organisation.

Gelli said he was in favour of rewriting the Italian constitution towards a Gaullist presidential system.

The Gaullist government, however, was criticized for its heavy-handedness: while elections were free, the state had a monopoly on radio and TV broadcasting and sought to have its point of view on events imposed ( this monopoly was not absolute, however, since there were radio stations transmitting from nearby countries specifically for the benefit of the French ).

Jacques Chirac and other Gaullist personalities published the " Call of the 43 " where they explained Giscard was the best candidate to prevent the election of Mitterrand.

In 1997, Claude Berri produced the biopic Lucie Aubrac based on the life of the Résistance heroine of the same name, which was criticized for its Gaullist portrayal of the Résistance and over-emphasis on the relationship between Aubrac and her husband.

Malraux was responsible for realizing the goals of the " droit à la culture " (" the right to culture ") -- an idea which had been incorporated in the French constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) -- by democratizing access to culture, while also achieving the Gaullist aim of elevating the " grandeur " (" greatness ") of post-war France.

In 1969, he became social affairs adviser to the Gaullist Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a move which was presented as part of Chaban's outreach to the centre-ground and first attracted media attention to Delors personally.

Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer (; 20 March 191629 August 2007 ) was a French Gaullist politician.

Though a Gaullist, Pompidou was more pragmatic than de Gaulle, notably facilitating the accession of the United Kingdom to the European Community on 1st January 1973.

In 1972, Chaban-Delmas was replaced by Pierre Messmer, a more conservative Gaullist.

When asked why he did not go to Algiers he replied: " You may have seen something of the large De Gaullist demonstration that was held here last Sunday.

A series of articles accusing long-serving Gaullist minister and possible Prime Ministerial candidate Robert Boulin of involvement in dubious real estate deals was followed by Boulin's mysterious death ( October 1979 ), presumed to be suicide.

The Cross of Lorraine was later adopted by Gaullist political groups such as the Rally for the Republic.

For the second round, the PCF refused to distinguish between Gaullist Georges Pompidou and Centrist Alain Poher, considering that was " six of one and half a dozen of the other " ( in French: blanc bonnet ou bonnet blanc ).

The most notable Gaullist was chancellor Konrad Adenauer, an outstanding Atlantiker his minister of foreign affairs, Schröder.

A typical Atlantiker was Protestant and believed in free market economy, a typical Gaullist was Catholic and tended toward Rhine Capitalism with its more regulated markets and state intervention.

Pompidou led and won the 1968 legislative campaign, leading to a tremendous victory of the Gaullist Party, then resigned.

De Gaulle asked to the Gaullist deputies to abandon the name " RPF ", then in June 1953, 5 Gaullist deputies joined Joseph Laniel's government.

Thus, the draft laws presented by François Mitterrand's government in the early 1980s, concerning restrictions on the funding of private ( and in majority Catholic ) schools, were countered by right-wing demonstrations headed by the then mayor of Paris, the Gaullist Jacques Chirac, who was to be his prime minister in 1986 and would succeed him in 1995 as president.

Soustelle was elected to France's National Assembly ( France's lower House ) three times, first representing Mayenne in 1945 – 46, then the Rhône ( 1951 – 58 ) as a Gaullist, and from 1973 to 1978 as a member of the centrist Mouvement Réformateur.

It was founded in 1999 by the current party president, the Gaullist and former Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, then allied with Philippe de Villiers ( ex-UDF ).

Gradually his views on Gaullist foreign policies were shared by the other EEC members and they joined Luns in his objections.

After the failed April 1961 Algiers putsch, organized by generals hostile to the negotiations headed by Michel Debré's Gaullist government, the OAS ( Organisation de l ' armée secrète ), which grouped various opponents of Algerian independence, initiated a campaign of bombings.

Soustelle, a one-time leftist and by 1955 an ardent Gaullist, began an ambitious reform program ( the Soustelle Plan ) aimed at improving economic conditions among the Muslim population ( Library of Congress ).

The Vichy Regime's prejudicial policies had discredited traditional conservatism in France by the end of the war, but following the liberation many former Pétainistes became critical of the official résistancialisme, using expressions such as " la mythe de la Résistance " ( the myth of the Résistance ), with one concluding, " The ' Gaullist ' régime is therefore built on a fundamental lie.

Likewise, the OAS did exist, inspired by the Gaullist government's 1962 cession of independence to Algeria after the Algerian War.

One may also cite social conservatism, and economic dirigisme and volontarisme ( namely the defense of spatial planning, economic planning, and Keynesianism ) as parts of the Gaullist ideology, but these are not necessarily accepted by all who called themselves Gaullists.

The first logo of the RPR recalls the Gaullist inheritance with the Cross of Lorraine, symbol of the Free French, drawn on top of the phrygian cap ( normally worn by Marianne ).

Impressed by the electoral success of New Right conservatives led by Ronald Reagan in the United States of America and by Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom, it gradually abandoned the Gaullist doctrine, claiming a less control of the state in economy.

Furthemore, the abandonment of the Gaullist doctrine was criticized by Charles Pasqua and Philippe Séguin.

Little by little, the RPR abandoned Gaullist doctrine and joined the market-oriented and pro-European positions of the UDF.

René Capitant founded a Gaullist Union for the Fourth Republic but it could not prevent the approval of the text prepared by the elected Assembly, which restored the parliamentary system.

Furthemore, the abandonment of the Gaullist doctrine was criticized by Charles Pasqua and Philippe Séguin.