Coalition pour la vie et la famille

The Coalition for Life and Family or Coalition pour la vie et la famille (fr, CPVF) was a European political party that focused on opposing abortion and promoting traditional family values against homosexuality. In 2016, the party applied for and received public funding from the European Union for the year 2017; however, in 2017, it did not register with the newly created Authority for European political parties and European political foundations.^[2][3]

Coalition for Life and Family Coalition pour la vie et la famille
Abbreviation	CPVF
Chairman	Alain Escada
General secretary	François-Xavier Peron
Founded	5 September 2016 (5 September 2016)
Headquarters	Av Wielemans Ceuppens 56, 1190 Forest, Brussels, Belgium[1]
Ideology	Social conservatism Political Catholicism Nationalism Reactionarism
Political position	Far-right
Website
www.coalitionlifeandfamily.com[dead link]
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The main activity of the CPVF is carried by the French organisation Civitas. Civitas has acted as a party since April 2016.^[4] Civitas can be categorised as arch-conservative Catholic^[5][6] nationalist,^[7] and far-right.^{[8][9][10][11]} The party is close to the Society of Saint Pius X.^[12] The party chairman is the Belgian Alain Escada, who is also chairman of Civitas. Civitas member François-Xavier Peron is the co-founder of CPVF. In France, Civitas and Escada cooperate closely with the convicted holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen and the Parti de la France.^[13]

CPVF has no members in the European Parliament, but members in the national and regional parliaments of Austria, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Spain and Slovakia.^[14] Surprisingly, CPVF's former Latvian member, Mihails Zemļinskis is a member of Social Democratic Party "Harmony", while this party's only member of European Parliament, Andrejs Mamikins, sat with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group.

See also

• European political party
• Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations
• European political foundation

References

1. http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2016/09/23/16131903.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
2. "The Coalition for Life and Family – New European-Level Political Party Takes to the Stage | Patriot News Agency". Patriot News Agency. 2016-12-22. Archived from the original on 22 December 2016. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
3. "European Parliament tightens UKIP purse strings". EURACTIV.com. 13 December 2016. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
4. "Et maintenant, les cathos radicaux ont leur parti !" [And now, the Catholic radicals have their own party !]. leparisien.fr. 2017-04-02. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
5. "L'institut Civitas va porter plainte contre les Femen" [Institut Civitas to sue feminists]. Libération (in French). 2012-11-20. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
6. "Manif pour tous, Civitas, Printemps français... la nébuleuse des anti-mariage gay" [Protest for all, Civitas, French Spring... organising against gay marriage]. L’Express (in French). 2013-04-16. Archived from the original on 2016-12-15. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
7. Pinte, Étienne; Turck, Jacques (2012). Extrême droite: Pourquoi les chrétiens ne peuvent pas se taire [Extreme Right: Why Christians Cannot Remain Silent] (in French). Éditions de l'Atelier. p. 10. ISBN 9782708241831. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
8. "Violences de l'extrême droite: les appels à la dissolution de Civitas se multiplient" [Violence by the Extreme Right: Calls to ban Civitas snowball]. Le Point (in French). 2012-11-19. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
9. "Civitas, à l'extrême-droite de Dieu" [Civitas, at the Extreme Right hand of God]. Paris Match (in French). 2012-11-22. Archived from the original on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
10. Leclercq, Jacques (2012). De la droite décomplexée à la droite subversive. Dictionnaire 2010-2012 [From the right of assembly to the right of subversion. Dictionary 2010-2012] (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. pp. 176 et seq. ISBN 9782296485143. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
11. Terrier, René (2012). Pourquoi je ne suis plus catholique [Why I am no longer Catholic] (in French). Brogny. p. 259. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
12. "L'aumônerie de CIVITAS assurée par les Capucins de Morgon : France Jeunesse Civitas". Francejeunessecivitas.hautetfort.com. 2017-01-18. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
13. Extreme right wing festival of the country. The Civitas religious extremists prepare the elections
14. "MPs, MRPs in European Parties Financial Exercise 2017 (Ask the EU.org) (PDF)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-22. Retrieved 2017-04-02.