François Asselineau

François Asselineau (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa asəlino] ^ⓘ, born 14 September 1957) is a French politician and an Inspector General for finances.

Asselineau was a member of the Rally for France (RPF) and UMP before creating his own political party the Popular Republican Union (Union Populaire Républicaine or UPR). His movement promotes France's unilateral withdrawal from the European Union, the Eurozone and NATO. Asselineau has been described as a souverainist, but does not self-identify as such. He identifies as being on neither side of the left–right political spectrum, while his career path has been described on Arrêt sur images as the classic one of a right-wing graduate of the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), on the fringes of the far-right.

Asselineau has repeatedly accused the media of "censorship". In his critique, he includes French Wikipedia, whose contributors had once considered him insufficiently noteworthy to justify an article in it. The activism of his supporters to try and increase media coverage of Asselineau and the UPR has been noted by some observers.

He ran in the 2017 French presidential election as the "Frexit candidate". He was eliminated in the first round, earning only 0.92% of the vote. For the 2022 presidential election, he failed to secure the necessary number of 500 sponsorships from elected officials in order to run.