Not enough to "make the political world tremble". This Friday, the spokesperson for the National Gathering Sébastien Chenu joked about the ousting of six members of the RN investiture commission. These replacements correspond to "an organizational decision, which allows us, like any political movement, to adjust our organization to reality", relativized the deputy and member of the executive board of the party on Europe 1 .
Gilbert Collard and Nicolas Bay dismissed
The goal is to have members completely "available" when choosing the "8,000 candidates" for the 2021 regional, which will be "exhausting work," he said. He thus underlined that the MEP RN Gilbert Collard, dismissed, had "no time to sit on a nomination committee which interests him very little".
And that the MEP RN Nicolas Bay, also outgoing, continued to sit on the party's executive board, "the highest body which chooses and validates the heads of the lists". “He will therefore be the decision-maker for himself. "
Internal discontent
After information from Figaro reporting these evictions, Gilbert Collard had confirmed on August 2 on RTL to be one of the outgoing members, stressing that in any case he had participated in the meetings of the commission "only once in seven years". "But I told Marine, we are warning," he had noticed.
Le Monde also reported on these changes and the discontent they would arouse internally, a “regional framework” cited by the daily referring to the establishment of “a purge mechanism”.
Contacted by AFP, Marine Le Pen and Nicolas Bay had not followed up.
Identity line always present
For Sébastien Chenu, it is not a question of ousting personalities positioned on a reactionary or identity line, which does not correspond to the party line.
“In the nomination committee you have people like Julien Sanchez, described as close to an identity line. It is a sensitivity that exists, which is embodied by some of our comrades, ”he said.
"Nicolas Bay and Gilbert Collard remain important in the party," assured Julien Sanchez on franceinfo on Friday.
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