After being suspended from his post as spokesperson for Marine Le Pen’s campaign for disloyalty, National Rally MEP Nicolas Bay finally took the plunge on Wednesday evening February 16. He joins the candidacy of Éric Zemmour.
“ What an incredible surprise… I didn’t expect it at all ! »
Marine Le Pen prefers to laugh, but the formalization of the rallying of Nicolas Bay to Éric Zemmour, in the middle of the program of the LCI channel devoted to the candidate of the National Rally (RN), is an additional vexation, reports Aurelien Devernoixpolitical service.
For weeks now, his far-right opponent has been siphoning off his troops: Deputy Gilbert Collard, Senator Stephane Ravier and another MEP colleague from Nicolas Bay, Jérôme Rivière.
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Marine Le Pen may minimize it, but it is starting to do a lot and raise the question of the candidate’s electoral strategy.
In the daily columns the Figaro where he announced his rallying, Nicolas Bay does not beat around the bush: ” The strategy of uniting through the ideas of voters Les Républicains and Rassemblement national » advocated by Éric Zemmour is the only « carrier ” and ” realistic politically.
But he also castigates the mode of operation of the RN and its boss, “ intolerant of the slightest criticism, impervious to the slightest questioning and which led the party to lose two-thirds of its membership in five years.
A start therefore on a bang that Marine Le Pen will find, this time, very difficult to minimize, while waiting for the coup de grace: the very probable rallying to Éric Zemmour of his own niece, Marion Marshal.
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