 It had around a thousand sympathizers at its height.The organization emerged in June 1985 as a splinter group of the French Nationalist Party, and was officially announced in 1987 at Euroring, a European neo-Nazi conference, as "Parti Nationaliste Français et Européen" (PNFE).The PNFE was made up of a mixture of former members of the outlawed FANE, and of neo-Nazi hardliners who had been expelled from the Front National (FN) when Jean-Marie Le Pen took on a respectable image after winning a few parliamentary seats in the 1986 elections.