Marine Le Pen and Gilles Pennelle, here May 6, 2021 during the official presentation of the head of the RN list in Morbihan Florent de Kersauson. – Alain ROBERT / SIPA
It has been her hobbyhorse since she took over from her father as president of the National Rally in 2011. Dediabolize her party. A successful bet that took her to the second round of the presidential election against Emmanuel Macron. Three weeks before the first round of departmental and regional elections, Marine Le Pen nevertheless saw the old demons of her party resurface by a letter signed by one of her former advisers.
Regional Councilor of Hauts-de-France, Jean-Richard Sulzer is also the founder of the “National Jewish Rally” which has been renamed “France-Israel Jewish National Circle”. This close to Marine Le Pen warns the president of the party there about the presence of candidates “with a sulphurous past” and warns: “Never my co-religionists, who adore you in addition, will vote for them: you risk to find ballots. variegated. “
Sulphurous candidates in Brittany, PACA and Hauts-de-France
In this email dated May 9, revealed by the Sunday newspaper, the candidate in the departmental ballot cites several names. The first is that of Gilles Pennelle, head of the RN list in Brittany, and a former activist of the neopagan racialist group Terre et Peuple. The president of the party was at his side a few weeks ago in the stronghold of the Le Pen family in La Trinité-sur-Mer for the presentation of the Morbihan candidate Florent de Kersauson.
In his e-mail, Jean-Richard Sulzer also quotes the name of Axel Loustau, former activist of the ultra-right student union GUD, a time expected to be invested. Or that of Philippe Vardon, campaign director of Thierry Mariani en Paca and former member of Radical Unity and Identity. And finally the name of Philippe Eymery, president of the RN group in Hauts-de-France and described as close to the identities of Lille. “It is clear that all these characters, often long-time members, have been put forward very much despite a somewhat sulphurous past (writings, videos, tweets, posts, condemnations)”, adds Jean-Richard Sulzer in his email, which believes that these candidates “should no longer be supported by the RN”.
The RN “let genuine anti-Semites rise in rank”
In an article published on the Jerusalem Post in early April, he called for “the withdrawal of the neo-Nazis from the lists” in these polls. Mr. Sulzer claims to have “seen the investiture commission gradually oust all people who were of Jewish origin” and “let genuine anti-Semites rise in rank”
“There is even someone who had the nerve to tell us: if there are anti-Semites, you just have to leave the RN,” said the former parliamentary assistant to the former. deputy Gilbert Collard, who accuses Marine Le Pen of “not paying enough attention” to the candidatures.