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Anton Drexler ( 13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942 ) was a German far-right political leader of the 1920s, instrumental in the formation of the anti-communist German Workers ' Party.
However, this coalition, dominated by the centre-left, was undermined both by the revolutionary groups such as the anarchist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo ( CNT ) and Federación Anarquista Ibérica ( FAI ) and by anti-democratic far-right groups such as the Falange and the Carlists.
For a decade, the nation was divided between " dreyfusards " and " anti-dreyfusards ", and far-right Catholic agitators inflamed the situation even when proofs of Dreyfus's innocence came to light.
The reaction back home was favourable ; only the far-left and the far-right criticized Nehru's decision.
Nehru was then at the peak of his popularity in India ; the only ( minor ) criticism came from the far-right.
Kach () was a far-right political party in Israel.
He joined the Young Republicans but said " he felt at ease among these budding conservatives and was merely following in Ed Turner's far-right footsteps ," according to " It Ain't As Easy As It Looks.
Powell's detractors often assert that he was ' far-right ', ' proto-fascist ' or ' racist '.
In the 20th century, an image of the sword was adopted as a symbol by Polish nationalist and far-right movements.
The gunman, Maxime Brunerie, underwent psychiatric testing ; the violent far-right group with which he was associated, Unité Radicale, was then administratively dissolved.
He was labelled a far-right populist by his opponents and in the media, but he fiercely rejected this label and explicitly distanced himself from " far-right " politicians such as the Belgian Filip Dewinter, the Austrian Jörg Haider, or Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Pen whenever compared to them.
A radical non-parliamentary, anti-democratic far-right organization active in Austria was the VAPO ( Volkstreue Außerparlamentarische Opposition ) founded by the Austrian neo-Nazi Gottfried Küssel in 1986, who publicly declared to be a member of the US-American neo-Nazi organization NSDAP / AO since 1977.
This was distinct from the Christian Identity movement and other forms of ultra-conservative Christianity practiced by the various Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, and other far-right groups.
Another conflict that is part of the party's background was the Algerian War ( many frontistes, including Le Pen, were directly involved in the war ), and the far-right dismay over the decision by French President Charles de Gaulle to abandon his promise of holding on to French Algeria.
Le Pen was chosen to be the first president of the party, as he was untainted with the militant public image of the ON and was a relatively moderate figure on the far-right.
The rhetoric used in the campaign stressed old far-right themes and was largely uninspiring to the electorate at the time.
For the first-ever election for the European Parliament in 1979, the PFN had become part of an attempt to build a " Euro-Right " alliance of European far-right parties, and was in the end the only one of the two that contested the election.
In 2005, Jean-Marie Le Pen considered in the far-right weekly magazine Rivarol that the German occupation of France " was not particularly inhumane even if there were some blunders ," and in 1987 referred to the Nazi gas chambers as " a point of detail of the Second World War.
The far-right extremists who had threatened military coups over the question of French Algeria largely receded after Algeria was granted independence.

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* Alianza Americana Anticomunista (" American Anticommunist Alliance " in Spanish ), a paramilitary far-right Colombian organization, 1978 – 1979
* Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party ( Ulster Vanguard ), existed from 1973 and 1978 ; far-right party

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* 2007 French legislative elections: Bruno Mégret calls for a " patriotic alliance " grouping all the far-right parties.
The immediate resignation of Jospin from politics following his shock defeat by far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in the first round of the 2002 presidential election forced Hollande to become the public face of the party for the 2002 legislative election but, although he managed to limit defeats and was re-elected in his own constituency, the Socialists lost nationally.

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However, after a sensational uncovering of massive bribes scandals in the early 1990s, the city had become a stronghold of the conservative coalition led by Milanese media-magnate Silvio Berlusconi combined with the secessionist far-right movement Northern League, a trend that seems to have been reversed only by the 2011 municipal elections, in which a progressive candidate successfully contested the mayoral seat, thus ending almost 20 years of conservative administrations.
However, after the elections held at the turn of September and October 1994, in which his HZDS won 35 % of the vote, he became prime minister again-in a coalition with the far-right Slovak National Party headed by the controversial Ján Slota, and the radical-left Združenie robotníkov Slovenska headed by the colourful Ján Ľupták, a mason.
In the parliamentary elections of 1979, rightist Carlists integrated in the far-right coalition Unión Nacional, that won a seat in Congress for Madrid ; but the elected candidate was not a Carlist himself.
Around 20 % of Blackburn's population come from ethnic minorities and in recent years the town has witnessed a resurgence in the fortunes of far-right political parties in local elections.
During the 1970 parliamentary elections, the Peoples Party contested with full force, initially brutalizing the far-right wings, and defeating the centre-right forces in West-Pakistan, although the Peoples Party faced a definite defeat in East-Pakistan where the tendency of communism was greater.
After the 2002 French presidential election, in which far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen arrived second behind conservative candidate Jacques Chirac, many analysts put the blame of the surprising result on working class, accused of engaging themselves in " protest vote ", that is in support of fringe candidates belonging to the far-left or the far-right, or even to people who present themselves as alien to the political world ( in France, environmentalist René Dumont in 1974, comedian Coluche in 1981 — but he withdrew his candidacy before the elections — environmentalist Pierre Rabhi who unsuccessfully tried to present himself in 2002, as well as TV showman Nicolas Hulot who almost stood for the election for 2007, before putting aside his idea, thus leaving electoral space for José Bové, a figure of the alterglobalization movement who recently decided to present himself as an independent candidate ).
This was as a result of the Centre Democrats's failure to benefit from increased attention on immigration issues, its years of internal infighting, and new legislation directed mainly against the far-right, which had raised the number of signatures per district required in order to contest elections.
The Australia First Party ( AFP ) is a minor far-right political party in Australia that is federally registered and is also registered to contest local elections in New South Wales.
It was ousted as the official opposition by the far-right Conservative Party in the whites-only parliamentary elections held on May 6, 1987.
In this context, he courted controversy in June 2004 with claims in The Independent newspaper of UKIP links with the far-right British National Party in the local elections: " In Yorkshire, where both the BNP and UKIP put up candidates, they appear to have come to an arrangement not to stand against one another ".
* Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front party, has been a candidate five times ( 1974, 1988, 1995, 2002 and 2007 ) in the French Presidential elections.
In the local elections of 1976 it had two councillors elected in Blackburn, Lancashire, which were to be the last electoral success for any British far-right party until the election of Derek Beackon of the British National Party in 1993.
Many Austrian intellectuals hold the Kronen Zeitung responsible for the gains of the far-right Freedom Party ( FPÖ ) in the 1999 elections, claiming its journalism is selective to an unacceptable degree.
The 1994 elections also swept media magnate Silvio Berlusconi ( leader of " Pole of Freedoms " coalition, which included Forza Italia, the regionalist far-right ‘‘ Lega Nord ’’ party and the far-right Alleanza Nazionale ), into office as Prime Minister.
In 2004, the DVU entered a non-competition agreement with the far-right National Democratic Party ( NPD ) for the state elections in Brandenburg and Saxony.
The KTP got some unexpected nationwide, and even international, publicity ahead the local elections in 2004 when the Turku and Raisio branches of the party made an electoral alliance with the far-right racist Finnish People's Blue-whites ( SKS ).

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EFA members are generally progressive, although there are some notable exceptions such as conservative New Flemish Alliance, Bavaria Party and Future of Åland, Christian-democratic ProDG and Slovene Union, centre-right Liga Veneta Repubblica, and far-right South Tyrolean Freedom.
SD describes itself as a nationalist movement although others use the term far-right.
She succeeded her mother as chairperson of the PPP and the pro-democracy opposition, although a left wing alliance, the Movement for Restoration of Democracy ( MRD ) to the far-right and ultraconservative military government of General Zia.
The site also contains a catalogue of books considered to be relevant to the magazine's themes and ideas ; although many of these books contain far-right content, often taking the form of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, there are some more surprising entries, such as the reformed Communist and social democrat George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and left-wing conspiracist Greg Palast's The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
Immediately prior to the show's opening in Plymouth, it was reported that members of the far-right British National Party were part in a local campaign against the performances, although Christian Voice claimed to disapprove of their involvement.
Some have linked Blair to Paul Fromm, Raphael Bergmann and other far-right figures, although there is no evidence to suggest that Blair actually endorses Fromm's opinions.
Furthermore, starting with the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and the 1972 Peteano attack, several bombings carried out by the far-right were at first blamed on anarchists ( for the first one ) and, for the second one, on the Red Brigades ( BR ) — although it was later found that neofascists, such as Vincenzo Vinciguerra, had organized them.

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