IFrance, it’s time for the fugitives. Momentum is in favor of Eric Zemmour and against the trend of reconnaissance. The 63-year-old presidential candidate promises a „Union of the Right” and has political heavyweights Marine Le Pen and her National Rally.

In Cannes, Front National and current MEP Gilbert Collard changed his flag: as if there were no pandemic precautions, he gave his new „friend” Zemmour a long, sincere hug. In turn, he insisted that Collard be celebrated as a harbinger of a „Union of the Right” in his rally in front of more than 4,000 supporters on Saturday. The newcomer was greeted with great applause.

The head of the national assembly group in the European Parliament, Jerome Riviere, had earlier announced his move to Zemmour. „Boldness, bravery, and vitality are on Zemour’s side today,” Collard said. With him I gain hope again. He wanted to confirm that he had nothing against Marine Le Pen. party founder Jean Marie Le Pen He renamed the boisterous lawyer Gilbert „Cunard” („the total idiot”). „The day will come when Marine Le Pen will do the same and join Eric Zemmour,” Collard said.

Before him, Philippe de Villiers, one of the most prominent figures of the anti-European right, had hailed Zemmour as a valiant hero for uniting the „patriots”.

Losing Rio hurts Le Pen

According to a recent survey by Ipsos for Le Monde and the Jean Jaures Foundation, Zemmour can count on 13 percent of the vote in the first ballot in April, and Marine Le Pen with 15.5 percent. By right-wing union, Zemmour is referring to a broad spectrum of voters, from ex-Sarkozy and Fillon supporters to those disappointed in Le Pen, to Huitarists.

The founder of the now-banned Generation Identitaire movement, Damien Rieu, also joined Zemmour. Rio previously worked as a parliamentary aide to Le Pen’s son-in-law Philippe Olivier, her campaign cyclist. That is why the loss of Rio, who is considered adept at campaigning on social networks, is especially painful. He was given insight into Le Pen’s campaign strategy that he can use against now.

Rio justified his move formally by Le Pen’s refusal to accept the „resettlement” theory and thus underestimate the scale of mass immigration. Ryo also joined Zemmour’s Reconquête (Reconquête) party. Zemmour, like Spain, believed that France faced the historical challenge of reconquest, and had repeatedly called for the expulsion or complete assimilation of the Muslims.

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Last week Zemmour welcomed dissident Guillaume Peltier of the Republicans. Peltier was immediately promoted to campaign spokesperson. presidential candidate Valerie Pecres He downplayed the loss and immediately expelled Peltier from the party. Marine Le Pen did not respond herself at first, but left her defense to her ex-partner, Perpignan Mayor, Louis Eliot. „I remain loyal to the Marines because they are the only ones who can defeat Macron,” Elliott wrote in a tweet.

But there is a lot going on behind the scenes. The former head of a junior organization at RN, Julian Rashidi, said he understands the defectors. If you do not belong to the nearest clan (family) or live far away in the county, then it is simply impossible to tolerate being in the committees of the RN party. Defeat at the regional elections and the party congress in Perpignan would have added to the indignation. Le Pen promoted her niece’s friend, Jordan Bardella, to party leader during her presidential campaign transition.

Fundraising campaign for Zamour

But the long-serving RN cadres were even more shocked that Le Pen, in the name of „feminization,” had brought a friend’s lawyer to the party executive who had joined the party only the day before the party convention. Alexandra Mason is now serving as one of the campaign spokesmen. Le Pen’s efforts to make the party feminine and as non-extremist as possible were met with discontent from many.

The indebted party also has to run a low-cost campaign, while research by the French press has shown that Zemmour can hardly save himself from campaign donations. Zemmour knows that billionaire Vincent Bollory, who was recently heard in the Senate, is the most important lender on his side. Boluri justified his support for the senators, saying, „No one knew Zemmour would become president.” „It’s not yet,” one Socialist senator corrected.

Zemmour speculates that Marion Marechal, granddaughter of party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, will also join his movement. Marechal retired from politics after defeating her aunt Marine Le Pen in 2017. She trained leaders of the „national rightists” at her political institute in Lyon. In his speech in Cannes, Zemmour once again embraced the idea of ​​a „national renaissance” advocated by Marechal.

The two traveled to Budapest together last fall and met Viktor Orban. Zemmour Turk supporters National Assembly We salute the Republican supporters. They are all now united „in the common house” of his party. Zamour claimed that „the right-wingers are the majority.” He will lead the „Union of the Right” to power.