The photo had to be beautiful: Marine Le Pen alongside her European allies in Madrid to display her international credibility. But the sun of the Spanish capital was quickly darkened this Saturday by rumors of “treason” within his political family. RN MEP Nicolas Bay, who accompanied him on this trip on Saturday, refused to say explicitly
on BFMTV that he would support her until the end of the campaign.
The exit led to heated exchanges between the latterand the candidate’s team. “Those who want to leave leave, but they leave now! “, also threatened Marine Le Pen. “Because what is unbearable is
the taqiyah that they themselves blame the Islamists, ”she added during a press briefing, in reference to the latest rallies to Eric Zemmour. A few days before her big presidential convention, next Saturday, Marine Le Pen sees her campaign polluted by these departures and the hesitations of her niece Marion Maréchal, also tempted to cross the Rubicon.
“Marine Le Pen is locked in the role of eternal loser”, tackles Eric Zemmour
In a few days, Marine Le Pen saw the departure of the boss of MEPs RN Jérôme Rivière, one of the spokespersons for his campaign, the MEP Gilbert Collard, but also the very media-friendly Jean Messiha and the influential identity activist Damien Rieu , both ex-RN. “Collard is the top 5 media figures of the RN, it will hurt in the South. Messiha makes audience hits on the sets, and Rieu is considered at the RN as the best on social networks, ”smiles a close friend of Eric Zemmour. These departures come in a context where the MP for Pas-de-Calais has nevertheless put her rival at a distance by several points in the polls.
“This proves that those who join us do so out of conviction and not out of opportunism,” says Dénis Cieslik, spokesperson for Reconquête. They understood that only Eric Zemmour could win the presidential election by uniting the rights”. This is the main argument put forward by recent defectors, as by the identity candidate since entering the campaign. “Marine Le Pen is locked into the role of eternal loser. I am lucky to be able to speak to the working classes and the bourgeoisie, I can make this victorious synthesis. What she cannot do and what Valérie Pécresse does not want to do, ”the person concerned recently told journalists.
“Mr. Zemmour drags out the media soap opera”
These rallies have raised tension between the two camps in recent days. Jordan Bardella, the acting president of the RN, denounced on BFMTV the “unfair methods” of Eric Zemmour to attract executives to his movement. “They contacted everyone, they promise money, investitures in the legislative elections (…) I wonder if the Eric Zemmour operation is not there to prevent the election of Marine Le Pen. »
“Media foam that does not interest the French,” adds Gilles Pennelle, RN executive responsible for federations. “Mr. Zemmour stages these rallies to drag out the media soap opera because he is in difficulty in his campaign. But each time we are attacked, the militant apparatus unites. Marine Le Pen enjoys unfailing support in our federations. »
Still, the media releases of Marion Maréchal, very popular among activists, have created a stir in the “national camp”. Support from the former deputy of Vaucluse to Eric Zemmour would not be without consequences for the identity wing of the RN. To the point that the presidential candidate played the appeasement, Monday evening on Europe 1: “If Marion called me to tell me that she is coming back, there would be no problem. In this storm, however, Marine Le Pen benefited from support that she perhaps no longer expected. That of her father, Jean-Marie, who even offered to mediate between his daughter and his granddaughter.