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IT AIMS TO ‘CONNECT WOMEN AND MEN PROUD OF OUR COUNTRY, SHARING THE SAME VALUES’ A new dating app for single French ‘patriots’ has launched, seeking to help those on the right of the

political spectrum find love and someone to raise a family with. _Droite au coeur_ – a play on words that can be translated as both ‘straight to the heart’ or ‘to the right of the heart’ –

has been available since early June as a website but launched its mobile app last week. On its homepage, _Droite au Coeur_ says it is “a meeting site for single patriots” who are “defenders

and guardians of our rich civilisation”. The platform says its goal is to “connect women and men proud of our country, sharing the same values.” The app was launched by Stéphanie and Yohan

Pawer, the latter of whom is a far-right influencer with more than 30,000 followers on the social media platform Instagram. The site has been endorsed by a number of right-wing figures in

France. PLACING THE SPOTLIGHT ON THE FAR-RIGHT While the app officially claims to have “no political position,” when a user signs up they are required to declare their political interests.

These range from the right-wing_ Les Républicains_ party, all the way to Éric Zemmour’s extremist _Reconquête,_ as well as the far-right _Rassemblement National_. On top of this, the

“values” that users share are “education, culture or religion, our roots are unfailing beacons that guide us on the path of life in a deconstructed and unhealthy society that no longer

resembles us”, says the site on its homepage. READ ALSO: FAR-RIGHT FRENCH MPS DECLARE WAR ON ‘THE POISON OF WOKEISM’ FAMILY FOCUS Although the site claims you can use the app to find either

a lifetime partner or just a short-term fling, the app is geared towards the former. The app – and its users – are keen on promoting the idea of starting a family with like-minded

individuals, which many see as a thinly veiled reference to a falling birth rate amongst white families in France. “We hope that thanks to us, thanks to you, families can be born, and single

parents can finally find a partner who will help them rebuild a solid, loving and generous family,” says the app. “There’s the idea, implicitly, that people will meet and have white

children [using the app],” Céline Simmons, a researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue think-tank that focuses on far-right extremism, TOLD EURONEWS. “It’s motivated by anxieties

about racial replacement -- it doesn’t mention things like the ‘Great Replacement’... but is completely steeped in that kind of fatalist anxiety,” she added. The Great Replacement is a

conspiracy theory, which believes that white Europeans are being replaced by migrants, usually who follow Islamic beliefs. The dating website did not respond to _The Connexion__’s_ request

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