The national gathering in the presidential election called on the two MEPs to give up their mandate, estimating Sunday that the electors who elected them have “voted for the ideas of the RN, not for the ideas of Eric Zemmour “.
Le Monde with AFP
She no longer holds her blows towards her extreme right competitor. Marine Le Pen, the national gathering candidate (NR) in the presidential election, has criticized, Sunday, January 23, “a derive from the mercenaries” during the program “Sunday in politics” on France 3. She reacted the rallying of MEPs Gilbert Collard and Jérôme River at his far-right rival Eric Zemmour, calling them to give up their mandate of MEPs.
“What touches me, it’s the way it’s done,” said M Le Pen, after the presentation Saturday in Cannes by Eric Zemmour of his new recruit RN, Gilbert Collard, three days after the announcement of Jérôme Rivière’s rally, which was one of the spokespersons for the presidential campaign of Marine Le Pen.
“I find that, for people who explain all the day they will save France, do not be able to pick up his phone to tell the person who made you elected,” I took the Decision to go to a competitor “In the foot of the presidential campaign, it’s really deplorable,” she reacted.
“The problem is that we are today in a drift of our society, which is a derive of mercenaries,” added the NR candidate. “Me, I think we still have values and I am attached to these values,” she said.
M me Le Pen called on the two MEPs to give up their mandate: “The least of the righteousness is to make their mandate,” she explained, believing that the voters who elected them have “voted for the RN ideas, not for the ideas of Eric Zemmour”.
“Division candidate”
“It has to resign from his mandate as a European member, that he has received voters from the NR,” reacted Louis Aliot, the Vice-President of the Party, Saturday on frenchinfo . “It’s been three years since I expected Gilbert Collard by the RN,” had said the Mayor of Perpignan, judging that this one “is in the permanent challenge.” “Already, in the European elections, he had made blackmail saying that if we did not put it on the list, he went to Dupont-Aignan. So his convictions are with variable geometry,” said Louis Aliot.
According to him, Eric Zemmour is “the candidate of the division”. “If they prevent us from being in the second round, they will forever be the responsibility of having favored the system when we were in a situation of winning,” he added.
An idea again developed Sunday by Marine Le Pen. About his far-right rival, the NR candidate has been convinced that his candidacy has no other purpose than to prevent him from competing the presidential agreement against Emmanuel Macron as in 2017. “I have concluded that the role of Eric Zemmour is to prevent me from arriving in the second round and not to be in the second round itself, “she said.