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The Democratic Front of the Francophones (Front Démocratique des Francophones, or FDF), is a French-speaking Belgian political party based in Brussels, fouded on 11 May of 1964. It aims at defending and expanding the linguistic rights of French-speakers in and around Brussels. It has recently affiliated with the Mouvement Réformateur, a liberal alliance party. Until 1982, the FDF dominated Brussels' municipal politics. It is led by Deputy Olivier Maingain.
The FDF advocates extension of the bilingual status of the Brussels-Capital Region to many currently officially unilingual municipalities around Brussels (in Flemish Brabant), where a minority - but in some towns a majority - of the population is French-speaking. This would expand the public services in French of all French-speakers who live in those areas. The FDF advocates also the dismantling of several measures hindering the French-speaking citizens of those communes from using French in their contacts with the administration.
The party applied for membership of the European Free Alliance party in the European parliament, but was rejected for being cultural imperialist. It has been nicknamed the 'French Interest', after its more widely known Flemish counterpart the Flemish Interest party.
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