He introduces himself on his Instagram account as “Prince Joachim Murat Prince of Ponte Corvo”. Distant great-grandnephew of Napoleon I, Joachim Murat will be a candidate in the European elections on a sovereignist list in France.
Aged 50, this former paratrooper officer appears third on the “We the people” list of Georges Kuzmanovic, a former spokesperson for Jean-Luc Mélenchon who left La France insoumise in 2018 to found his Sovereign Republic movement. The list will also include Philippe Grégoire, a breeder president of “SAMU social agricole”, an association which defends farmers in difficulty, and the writer Olivier Delorme.
“An oppressive European bureaucracy”
Descendant of the Marshal of the Empire and King of Naples Joachim Murat (1767-1815), who was the brother-in-law of Napoleon I through his marriage to his sister Caroline Bonaparte, Joachim Murat asserts himself as “a passionate about France and its social model which no longer supports its destruction planned by the proponents of federalist Europe.”
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“It is time to return power to nations and people, in the face of an oppressive European bureaucracy and a political elite that has betrayed the fundamental principles of democracy, sovereignty and freedom,” he assures.