Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, at the National Assembly on September 29, 2020. -

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Nicolas Dupont-Aignan's party is going through a difficult time.

About sixty officials of Debout la France have left the sovereignist party since the resignation of the number two of the movement.

Above all, they will form a satellite collective of the National Rally, dissident activists announced Wednesday evening.

DLF vice-president Philippe Torre also announced, in another press release, his resignation from the list he was to lead to regional elections in Hauts-de-France, on the basis of a "shared observation" with the former spokesperson and number 2 of the party, Jean-Philippe Tanguy.

The latter and other loyal lieutenants announced on November 22 their rallying to Marine Le Pen's candidacy for the Elysee Palace, criticizing a strategy of "isolation" which leads to a "dead end".

I am resigning from my functions within Debout La France.

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- Thibault Tournier (@TThibaultDLF) December 1, 2020

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan denounced an “organized, instrumentalized and minority sabotage”, noting for his part only eight departures, including five from the national office.

"But this clarifies the line" of the movement, welcomed the former ally of Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election in 2017, who this time chose to go it alone for 2022, in order to offer the French " the choice ”and escape a Macron-Le Pen duel.

The example of Thierry Mariani

About fifty local DLF officials left the party, as well as a dozen national executives, including vice-president Anne-Sophie Frigout and DLF youth president Alexandre Sabatou, for their part said the rebels in a press release. .

The dissidents, joined by the former campaign manager for the European elections of DLF, Thomas Ménagé, who left after the election, will "launch at the end of January a sovereignist Gaullist collective, which, like the Popular Right, will work with the RN and all the goodwill ”.

The former Sarkozyst minister Thierry Mariani had relaunched in June 2019 his current of the popular Right by satellite of the RN, to attract those from LR who want to work with the RN without necessarily joining it.

For his part, DLF vice-president Philippe Torre accuses Nicolas Dupont-Aignan of being in a “denial of reality”.

He deplores "the continuation of the strategy of isolation of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan [which] aims to maintain this candidacy at all costs" for the presidential election, "while his sole objective would in fact be quite simply to be re-elected deputy in his constituency of Essonne ”.

Philippe Torre should be excluded from the party, according to Dupont-Aignan.

He will be replaced in Hauts-de-France by the deputy José Evrard, who has already campaigned in three other formations, the PCF, the FN, and the Patriots.

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