François Asselineau is a French Politician who prones Frexit (exit of France from the EU), going beyond Brexit as he also advocates withdrawal from the € (which British didn't have to do) and from NATO (which British didn't want to do).
More than a politician, he is an analyst and a political historian. Although an erudite who is extremely interesting to listen to, with analyses that are both original and solid, he seems to lack the quality of a chief that are needed in a political party to instil obedience and a large followup. Instead, his affable manners and emotional reactions make him almost systematically lose face in debates, where he dominate in substance, but collapses in the style, form and appearances. See for instance how he dissolves into embarassed laughters after meakly asserting his position to a random and obscure opponent. The body language is, throughout, appalling. In one of his rare wide-audience appearance on television—in On n'est pas couché on 20 september (2014), in a debate whether another party also proposes the same solutions as he does, his reply turn to utter confusion as he loses track of the argument and replies instead of the attempt of assimilating him with the other party (while the grudge was instead that his solution is not original). As he persists in his error, his opponent ridicules him as someone who lies, which indeed seems to be the case, while what really happened is that he got emotionally submerged and lost track of his argument, for lack of debating skills. A bit later, against the unfair but fairly standard attacks from the same journalist, he looses countenance and, disarmed, opposes the argument «Mais vous avez fait quoi vous?». This is dramatic given that, on substance, he was correctly forewarning, for instance, of the war in Ukraine, at a time when such prospects were in sight only of those involved in its unravelling.
Those cosmetic flaws make it unlikely that he will ever access to power, since people react like primates to all questions involving leadership. The tragedy of France's History is thus that its final demise will have hanged on the charisma and high-pitched voice, lack of breath and candor, of its liberator, who otherwise had all the required qualities—intelligence, knowledge, endurance, perception and courage—to follow in the line of Saint Louis, Jeanne d'Arc and De Gaulle. All the qualities, save that of presenting well enough.
I supported his political party on 1 September (2025) with an adhesion, decades after following its development, not least because I see the task he assigned himself impossible, but noble, whence the necessity to join it.