After Guillaume Peltier, who came from the Republicans, the candidate therefore registered a new support Wednesday with the arrival of the MEP, which was also the head of the RN delegation in the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament.
Le Monde with AFP
This is a new symbolic rally for the far-right candidate. The MEP of the National Rally (RN) Jérôme Rivière, which was one of the spokespersons for the presidential campaign of Marine Le Pen, joined the team of Eric Zemmour. “I chose to support Eric Zemmour,” Mr Riviere announced at the Parisian Wednesday 19 January, believing that” Marine The Pen is not in a situation of winning the presidential election “.
After Guillaume Peltier, from the Party The Republicans, Eric Zemmour has launched a new catch on Wednesday with the arrival of Jérôme Rivière, which was also the head of the RN delegation in the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament. “The time that France crosses, the choice we will have to make of conviction choices,” he explained on RMC Thursday morning
For Mr Rivière, from the regional elections of the summer of 2021, where the RN has won no region, the President of the Far Right Party “has reached a glass ceiling, which it will not arrive Not to go beyond. She knows it, and that’s why she reorganized the party last summer “. “Zemmour’s candidacy is the only one able to blow the health cord between the Conservatives, who were at LR, and on the other side of the nineals populists embodied by the RN who could never meet,” A-T -The also added, reminiscent of Guillaume Peltier’s recent rallying to support his remarks.
“Vicissitudes” of a campaign
On the program, Jérôme Rivière felt Thursday morning that M me Le Pen “is not present about the stakes of civilization, on the fight against the merchandization of the human being, On the fight against gender theory, on pregnancy for others. On that, Eric Zemmour is present “. The elected official specified the day before it was about to become Vice President and spokesman of the Party reconquest!, From Eric Zemmour, as the deputy ex-Lr Guillaume Peltier.
Jérôme Rivière says he has resigned from the party and his position of Head of the RN delegation within the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament. This departure is part of the “vicissitudes” of a campaign, it was a “very ilful profile”, reacted Wednesday the entourage of Marine Le Pen. Former MP Union Union for a popular movement (UMP) of the Alpes-Maritimes, Jérôme Rivière was also a member of the National Office of the RN. He was spokesperson for the Marine Le Pen campaign for the foreign press.
Eric Zemmour, currently behind the NR candidate in the surveys, “sparked an important enthusiasm and made a courageous choice. I have a duty to make one too,” said the Eurodété in the Parisian. Mr. Riviere says not to believe “Eric Zemmour is brutal”, as M me Le Pen. “It’s sometimes radical, because it raises the political terms in a raw man, but in nothing brutal. He has this rally ability that does not have married Le Pen. He can do what he calls” the union of the lines “” between “Conservatives and Populists”.
Jérôme Rivière had visited the United States several times for the RN, including to follow the last days of the Donald Trump campaign in 2020. He knows the former counselor of the latter, Steve Bannon, and Relayed on social networks Mr. Trump’s fraud accusations, which considers that his Democratic rivals “stolen” the US presidential election.