The Union des nationaux indépendants et républicains (UNIR, Union of Independent and Republican Nationals or National Unity and Independent Republicans), was a political movement launched during the 1951 French legislative election by Jacques Isorni and other nostalgic supporters of the Vichy Government.
[1] Officially apolitical, UNIR adhered to a minimal political platform: "to obtain the revision of the trial of Marshal Pétain and his rehabilitation, as well as the moral and material reparation for all French citizens unjustly condemned by exceptional courts."
[2] Upon its creation, UNIR received support from the Association for the Defense of Marshal Pétain's Memory and the Union of Independent Intellectuals.
[3] Initially, Paul Reynaud opposed the integration of UNIR deputies into the parliamentary group of the National Centre of Independents and Peasants (CNIP).
[1] As a result, they first aligned themselves with the Peasant Party of Social Union[1] before ultimately joining the CNIP parliamentary group.