Former LR number 2 Guillaume Peltier announced on Sunday that he was rallying the far-right 2022 presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, “the only right-wing candidate” according to him, while he no longer “trusted »By LR candidate Valérie Pécresse.
“I made the decision to support the only candidate of the right, the only candidate faithful to the values of the RPR, the only candidate capable of defeating Emmanuel Macron because capable of bringing together all the voters of the right,” said the deputy of the Loir-et-Cher at Cnews and Europe 1.
Valérie Pécresse compared to Emmanuel Macron
“I have no guarantee of a non-rallying (of Valérie Pécresse) to Emmanuel Macron”, he criticized, judging that “Valérie Pécresse and Emmanuel Macron, it’s the same thing”. Guillaume Peltier is “withdrawing” from LR and calls on “the voters” and “the LR parliamentarians” to join Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!).
At the beginning of December, Guillaume Peltier had made waves in his camp by asking himself “how to remain insensitive to the speech for France” of Eric Zemmour during his first candidate meeting. The Republicans’ strategic committee then dismissed the LR deputy from his post as vice-president of the party.
Guillaume Peltier, itching for the Republicans
It was not the first time that Guillaume Peltier provoked the ire of LR officials. At the end of May 2021, he had assured “carry the same convictions” as the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, close to the RN. What had earned him to be dismissed from his position of number two in LR.
Then, at the end of November, while he was showing his support for Eric Ciotti at the LR congress, he declared that he “no longer wishes to seal with the voters of Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen”.