The Front National (FN) have been out of the media limelight after their defeat to Emmanuel Macron in last May’s presidential elections.
A new name, leadership structure and bylaws are being unveiled at the conference this weekend with the aim of the party becoming relevant again.
The outcome of Italy’s election last week has energised France’s far right after the Five Star Movement and the anti-immigration League beat the traditional parties.
Speaking today at the conference, leader of the FN, Marine Le Pen, said: “Our individual and collective commitments go towards a cause that is greater than us.
“It is for France that we fight, it is for France that we will win.
“Long live the Republic, Long live France!”
She also said: “It is because we are Europeans that we are opposed to the European Union!
“We reject the prison logic of this EU”.
The FN won 33.9 per cent of the second vote against Macron last year when supporters had hoped to win at least 40 per cent.
However, senior members of the far-right party have been touring French regions to meet party activist and members have received a questionnaire regarding the party’s future.
The questionnaire includes questions on Europe, immigration, social matters, education and family policies.
Yesterday, the party’s deputy president Louis Aliot, tweeted: “Welcome to Steve Bannon who will address the Front National tomorrow at our congress and will meet Marine Le Pen.
“The people are waking up and taking their destiny in hand”.
He also said that Mr Bannon “represents rejections of the establishment of which one of the worst symbols is Brussels’s EU.”
He said that Bannon understood like Trump, Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen that people want to control their own destiny.
Jean-Yves Camus, director of the Paris-based Observatory for Political Radicalism, told Deutsche Welle: “This is an occasion for a fresh start for her.
“She wants to revive her links with party members and gear up for next year’s European Elections.”
Le Pen’s performance in a pre-election debate with Macron was seen as one of the main reasons her party was defeated.