Lionel Tardy is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Haute-Savoie

Haute-Savoie

Haute-Savoie is a French department in the Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. It borders both Switzerland and Italy. The capital is Annecy. To the north is Lake Geneva and Switzerland; to the south and southeast are the Mont Blanc and Aravis mountain ranges and the French entrance to the Mont...

 department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement

Union for a Popular Movement

The Union for a Popular Movement is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party...

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On 14 July 2011, Lionel Tardy clearly showed he was xenophobic by advising the Green Party candidate to the presidential election Eva Joly who has the French and Norwegian double nationality to go back to Norway. It shows the tendency of the Union for a Popular Movement to adopt ideas of the far right.