Yvan Blot
Yvan Blot (born 29 June 1948 in Saint-Mandé) is a French conservative political figure who has been a member of GRECE and the founder and president of the Club de l'Horloge.[1]
A former Gaullist parliamentarian (for Rally for the Republic), Blot also served as a leading civil servant under both Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski and Alain Devaquet.[2] He joined the Front National in 1989 and was elected to the European Parliament for them in the 1989 election.[3]
A prominent Eurosceptic he played a leading role in establishing a committee to support the Bruges Group in France.[4] He also played a leading role in FN policy making, joining other Club de l'Horloge alumni such as Bruno Mégret and Jean-Yves Le Gallou in driving the party away from corporatism and towards neo-liberal economics.[5] He has also written for Nation Europa magazine. He is now member of the UMP He has two websites :and is the founder of the association "Agir pour la démocratie directe" in Paris. The mission statement of this assopciation is to change the French constitution on the Swiss model.
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- ^ "Time". August 13, 1979. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948544-1,00.html. Retrieved 2007-05-09.
- ^ J.G. Shields, The Extreme Right in France, Abingdon: Routlegde, 2007, p. 157
- ^ Shields, op cit, p. 242
- ^ G Harris, The Dark Side of Europe – The Extreme Right Today, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994, p. 224
- ^ Shields, op cit, pp. 245-6
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