After leaving the UMP (2006)[7][8] and the Rally for an Independent and Sovereign France [fr] (RIF)[9] where Asselineau was a member of the steering committee for 3 months, in 2007, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Rome Treaty, he created the Popular Republican Union (UPR).

[18] They intended to inform electors about UPR's policy program and frame the domestic situation as the consequence of national and international circumstances.

Asselineau declared that he would seek to run in the 2017 French presidential election, and managed to secure the 500 necessary sponsorships required to be listed on the first-round ballot.

[21] UPR promotes withdrawal from the European Union and the euro by invoking TEU Article 50[22] as a first step to get France out of its current crisis by establishing full domestic control capital, goods and person flow regulation.

[12] UPR also favors nationalisation of entities such as TF1, La Poste, Gaz de France,[23] highways, water management and troubled banks.

[21] In February 2012, François Asselineau and his party, UPR, claimed they were "barred from the major media" ("barrés des grands médias") and "banned from going on the air" ("interdits d'antenne") as "[their] ideas are upsetting" ("[leur] discours dérange").

[30] Laurent Ruquier likewise noted that he invited François Asselineau to On n'est pas couché because of incessant Twitter pressure.

[31] After the broadcast of this program, an article on the collaborative website of L'Obs (Le Plus) expressed doubts about the granting of speaking time to "this kind of conspiracist",[32] while Causeur suggested that Laurent Ruquier had in fact invited Asselineau in order to ridicule his anti-European ideas.