The mayor of Beziers, who called for voting for the national gathering candidate, ceases any media expression until the second round. It has multiplied in recent months the signs of approximation with Emmanuel Macron.
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In this between-tricks of the presidential election, Marine Le Pen has for the moment no rallying. The national gathering candidate could even undergo an opposite phenomenon, since the mayor of Béziers (Hérault), Robert Ménard, settled behind his campaign.
According to our information, the elected official decided to cease any media expression by the second round on April 24. A half-surprise, both the Edile, supported by the far-right party since 2014, has multiplied the signs of approximation with Emmanuel Macron in recent months. To the point of being today qualified by a close to the Head of State “Potential Unexpected Support”.
The story begins on November 16, 2021. That day, the President of the Republic goes to Béziers to grant a check of 200 million euros to a local company as part of a vast development plan. Hydrogen sector. A “colossal chance” for the city, then estimates Robert Ménard, who congratulates Emmanuel Macron for his ability to “embody hope, [to] propose a radiant France”.
“You have to be a voluntarist and optimistic, that’s what I stop repeating Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen. They will not succeed by passing for flap-joy,” he says on the sidelines of the presidential visit.
“An irreproachable republican positioning”
On January 26, the sexagenarian goes to the Elysée for a tribute ceremony to the black feet. Certainly, Béziers welcomes many retrans from Algeria – and their descendants – but the invitation of his mayor has nothing natural. The Mayor (national gathering) of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, has not been invited, despite the presence of a strong black feet community in his city. The Presidency of the Republic was the last minute the presence of Robert Ménard.
The interested part of Algeria at the age of nine with his family, congratulates Emmanuel Macron at the end of his speech for his words of recognition with regard to the blackfoot. “It will not stop me from putting the flags in Berne in Béziers, March 19”, the anniversary of the cease-fire of the Algerian war, he slips him. “It’s your story, Robert, you do what you want,” replies the President of the Republic.
In private, the entourage of the Head of State welcomes this triangulation exercise, seen as a means of hiring Marine Le Pen. “Ménard has an irreproachable republican positioning, rent a close to Mr. Macron. He changed.”
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