Presidential 2022: Reasons for defection of MEP RN Jérôme Rivière for benefit of Eric Zemmour

The rallying of one of the spokespersons of Marine Le Pen at the Eric Zemmour camp, after that of Guillaume Peltier, is minimized by the national gathering.

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Jerome River, MEP, Chairman of the National Gathering Group (NR) in the European Parliament and one of the spokespersons of Marine Le Pen, announced to join the team of Eric Zemmour, Wednesday 19 January to the Parisian. “The inability that the RN has shown to win the regional elections [June 2021] is the blatant demonstration that Marine Le Pen is not in a situation of winning the presidential election, he said. The situation of France is too worrying to participate in a presidential campaign by being resigned to failure. “

He will become vice-president and spokesperson for reconquet !, The party of Eric Zemmour, as the deputy ex-Lr Guillaume Peltier, who also rallied the old columnist. “Jérôme Rivière symbolizes this union of the rights brought by reconquest!, Claimed by millions of French, indicated the far-right party in a statement. This rallying of a parliamentary group president marks a new important step towards the Union . “

The MEP has had very hard words against the NR candidate, who would have understood “that she would not be able to be president of the Republic. Reason for which she decided in July At the Perpignan Congress, to make RN a raft of the jellyfish, an extremely closed organization “. He judges her “unable to recognize certain evidences, as the big replacement” and ensures that other parliamentarians Rn will follow his example “in the coming weeks”.

sinuous political course

This departure is part of the “vicissitudes” of a campaign, simply indicates the entourage of Marine Le Pen, stressing that it was a “very ilful profile”. Jérôme Rivière was actually on departure for several months. He had been quite upset not to be appointed in July to the RN Executive Office, which had been open to new profiles, including women, while it was very treated from the party. On the other hand, he had been agreed to introduce a rotating presidency of the Party delegation in Strasbourg, to feminize the movement and show new faces – and he had a great deal. It is also the MEP Hélène Laporte which was immediately named in its place. Finally, Marine Le Pen has chosen to open his press conference on Tuesday on Europe alongside Nicolas Bay, Vice-President of the RN delegation to the European Parliament: it is probably the drop of water that precipitated the departure of Mr. Riviere.

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