On the move to Cerbère, the other candidate for the extreme right Marine Le Pen has vilified Sunday the member of the Loir-et-Cher, who “has checked all the boxes, will have made all the political movements”.
Le Monde with AFP
Guillaume Peltier makes waves again in his camp. The former number two of the Party the Republicans (LR) announced, Sunday, January 9, that he rallied the candidate of the extreme right to the presidential Eric Zemmour, “only right candidate” according to him, while he n more “trust” in the candidate of LR, Valérie Pécresse.
The member of the Loir-et-Cher and former member of the National Youth Front told CNEWS and Europe 1:
“I made the decision to support the only candidate on the right, the only candidate faithful to the values of the RPR, the only candidate capable of beating Emmanuel Macron because capable of gathering all the voters on the right.”
“I have no guarantee of a non-rallying [of Valérie Pécresse] at Emmanuel Macron”, he criticized, judging that, “Valérie Pécresse and Emmanuel Macron, it’s the same thing” .
m. Peltier starts “in withdrawal” from LR and calls “voters” and “Parliamentarians” to join Eric Zemmour (reconquest!). “I will be one of the captains of this extraordinary adventure” alongside the ex-polemicist.
“An epiphenomenon”
On the move to Cerbère (Pyrenees-Orientales) at the Franco-Spanish border, the other candidate for the extreme right Marine Le Pen (national gathering, Rn) has vilified Mr. Peltier, who “will have checked all boxes , will have made all political movements “. That he joins Eric Zemmour “does not surprise me,” she added, evoking “an epiphenomenon”.
In early December, Guillaume Peltier had made waves in his camp asking “how to stay insensitive to the speech for France” of Eric Zemmour during his first candidate meetings. The Republican Strategic Committee then had the Member of Parliament with its function as Vice President of the Party.
It was not the first time Guillaume Peltier provoked the IRE of LR officials. At the end of May 2021, he had assured “bear the same convictions” that the mayor of Beziers Robert Ménard, close to the Rn. What had earned him to be removed from his number two of LR.
Then at the end of November, while he was showing his support for Eric Ciotti at the LR Congress, he had stated that he did not want “more sealing with Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen voters”.
“Nothing really new”
Valerie Pécresse spokesperson, Othman Nasrou felt Sunday that “Guillaume Peltier had already left in the facts, nothing really new”. “It is now up to the starting point of its political commitment to the far right,” he continued on Twitter .
Minister Modem Marc Fesau, of the same department as Mr. Peltier, also condemned The same social network This “Back to the parent house, the termination of pretentious, ambitious and opportunists”.
m. Peltier had committed from 1996 to 1998 to the National Front of Youth. “An impasse,” he wrote in 2019. After a passage to Bruno Mégret, he had become number two of the movement for France of the Sovereignist Philippe de Villiers, also also support from Eric Zemmour. Mr. Peltier then had changed Cap in 2009 by joining the UMP. It had been chosen by Nicolas Sarkozy as a spokesperson for his campaign in 2012.