The rupture seems consummated. This Thursday evening, in front of his parliamentary office in Marseille, Stéphane Ravier, the only RN senator, announced to some 150 activists that he was withdrawing “from all Parisian authorities” from Marine Le Pen’s party.
With @Stephane_RavierMarseilles first! pic.twitter.com/k6S1XvrCzh
— With Ravier (@AvecRavier) February 10, 2022
Tensions have been high for a few days within the Marseille RN. Franck Allisio, adviser to Marine Le Pen and vice-president of the RN group on the Marseille city council chaired by Stéphane Ravier, left this same group in early February, along with three other elected officials. He thus intended to protest against the maintenance in the latter of an elected RN (excluded since), Sophie Grech, who had given her sponsorship to Eric Zemmour for the presidential election.
A “Marseilles first” movement
Furious at this decision, Stéphane Ravier had called on the authorities of the party to decide between him and Franck Allisio. “Jordan Bardella [président du RN] let it be known that Franck Allisio had his full support. The choice was therefore made, that of a Parisian bureaucrat who ransacked 30 years of work in Marseille, ”lamented the senator from Bouches-du-Rhône during a speech Thursday evening.
“I am withdrawing from all Parisian authorities, to devote myself only to Marseille by creating a “Marseille first” movement”, he added, without however leaving the RN for the moment. “I will draw the conclusions soon,” he said.