18 Facts About Roger Holeindre

Roger Holeindre served in the First Indochina War and the Algerian War, was a member of the National Assembly from 1986 to 1988.

Roger Holeindre was the president of the Cercle national des combattants and the honorary president of the Party of France.

Roger Holeindre was born on 21 March 1929 in Corrano, Corse-du-Sud.

Roger Holeindre created there a youth center for education of Muslim locals.

Roger Holeindre joined the Organisation armee secrete, a right-wing terrorist movement opposed to the 1962 Evian Accords which granted independence to Algeria.

In 1962, Roger Holeindre was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his involvement with the OAS, albeit he was amnestied after serving roughly 3.5 years.

Roger Holeindre then worked as a reporter for Paris-Match, while in the same time counselling young Occident far-right activists.

In January 1968, Roger Holeindre founded the Front uni de soutien au Sud-Viet-Nam and supported the US war effort.

Roger Holeindre maintained contacts with the direction of the WACL, supported by the Taiwanese authorities.

Roger Holeindre became a member of the political bureau of the National Front, created in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen, along with Francois Brigneau.

Roger Holeindre served as a member of the National Assembly for the Seine Saint Denis region from 1986 to 1988.

Roger Holeindre subsequently served as the vice-president of the FN.

Roger Holeindre presided over the Cercle national des combattants, a veteran association close to the FN.

Roger Holeindre supported Le Pen against Bruno Megret's attempt to seize control of the FN, and claimed to follow Jean-Pierre Stirbois's nationalist and solidarist current.

Roger Holeindre was part of the "TSM" current, along with Samuel Marechal, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Claude Martinez, and the Catholic current represented by Bernard Antony and Bruno Gollnisch, as well as Martine Lehideux.

The split between Megret and Le Pen started on 16 July 1997 meeting near Strasbourg during which Roger Holeindre started the hostilities, by stating that the FN, in the French colonial tradition, should return to a more "paternalist" approach on immigration issues, and criticized "ideological racialism" theories, targeting Nouvelle Droite supporters and former members of the Club de l'Horloge.

Roger Holeindre supported Bruno Gollnisch during the campaign for the leadership of the National Front in 2010, defeated by his rival Marine Le Pen the following year.

Roger Holeindre entered the political bureau in 2013 and became honorary president in 2016.