[1] Perret joined the Fédération Nationale Catholique, a pressure group, when it was founded in 1924 to resist the anti-clericalism of the Cartel des Gauches, the left-wing coalition.
[7] Perret opposed efforts by Henri de Kérillis to pull together conservatives into a united party supporting André Tardieu, thinking the Fédération Républicaine could represent the right on its own.
[8] In 1928 he was president-delegate to the Fédération Républicaine du Rhône, and vice-president of the national party, which broke with the moderation of the progressive republicans of the late nineteenth century.
[10] By mid-1932 the faction led by Perret, hostile to social reform and uncommitted to parliamentary democracy, dominated the Fédération Républicaine du Rhône.
[11] On 13 January 1934 Perret published an article called Crise de moralité criticizing the parliamentary system, which he and other leaders of the Fédération Républicaine saw as both corrupt and ineffective.