An attempt which ended in failure. The Free France list, led by former singer Francis Lalanne, gathered less than 1% of the votes during the European elections which were held this Sunday, June 9.
He will therefore not enter the European Parliament, despite his ambition displayed during his campaign. He announced in April that he was presenting a joint list with the controversial comedian Dieudonné, placed in third position, behind Anne-Laure Delinot.
A list against “the Republic”
This list was intended to be “an alternative to political dictatorship”, against “the Republic”, according to them “the opposite of democracy”. It presented itself as “a coalition of citizen associations”. “Too often, we have confronted the republican system in a dispersed manner. The time for unity has arrived on the European Boulevard,” explained Francis Lalanne in April.
“The Republic imposes an elective system on citizens which consists of voting and, by voting, renouncing one’s sovereignty: that is to say, the Republic is the opposite of democracy,” he argued, by proposing the establishment of an “imperative mandate”.
Previous inconclusive applications
These elections were not the first in which the ex-singer took part. In 2007, he ran for legislative elections in the 3rd constituency of Bas-Rhin, under the label of the Independent Ecologist Movement, and won 3.5% of the vote. He repeated the experience in 2017 and 2022 under other political labels, without ever exceeding 3%.
Candidates in various local elections in recent years, Dieudonné and Francis Lalanne had already run in the European elections, without success. The comedian was present on the EuroPalestine lists in 2004 (1.83%) and the Anti-Zionist Party in 2009 (1.30%). The former singer obtained 0.54% of the vote in 2019 by leading the Yellow Alliance list, which was intended to be a political extension of the Yellow Vest movement.
