[3] Regarding the sensitive issue of relations between church and state, the Volksfront avoided publicly taking a clear stand.
[1] The Volksfront launched two candidates in a parliamentary by-election in 1928, which had been called as two elected autonomist assemblymen (Eugène Ricklin and Joseph Rossé) had been allowed to take their seats): Marcel Stuermel and René Hauss.
[1] The Volksfront won the 1929 municipal election in Strasbourg by defeating the incumbent socialist mayor, Jacques Peirotes, who had been backed by an anticlerical and assimilationist coalition.
[4] As the Landespartei moved closer to National Socialism, with a discourse that was increasingly anti-Semitic and antidemocratic, divisions began to appear in the Volksfront.
The UPR was alienated by the antidemocratic, anti-Catholic and antireligious discourse of the National Socialists and deserted the coalition, followed by Dahlet's Progressives in 1933.