The National Popular Rally (RNP) was a fascist political party in France that was active from 1941 to 1945, with Marcel Deat serving as its founder. The RNP and the French Popular Party became the two leading collaborationist parties in Vichy France during World War II, but the RNP failed to unite all French fascists, as the RNP consisted mostly of former leftists and SFIO members; Deat himself was a former SFIO politician. The party advocated anti-Semitism and racist policies and admired Nazi Germany, but it differed from the Popular Party in that it continued to support universal suffrage, public education, anti-clericalism, and the preservation of republican symbols in town halls. The RNP was rivals with the reactionary Action Francaise party, and the party sought to revolutionize France during the German occupation. It was banned after the Liberation of France in 1945.
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