French presidential: Jérôme Rivière leaves the RN for Zemmour
(archives) Jérôme Rivière on RFI on May 2, 2019. RFI
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Marine Le Pen is traveling in the south-east of France.
The candidate of the National Rally for the presidency is in Fréjus to present her health plan but the departure of the European deputy Jérôme Rivière in the camp of Eric Zemmour has come to interfere with her campaign.
A rallying of which Marine Le Pen minimizes the scope.
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It is a non-event, the executives of the National Rally have been repeating it since yesterday evening: the defection of Jérôme Rivière does not change anything.
It is not on a political disagreement that the former boss of the deputies of the National Rally in the European Parliament slams the door, but for more down to earth reasons, explains Marine Le Pen at the microphone of our special correspondent,
Julien Chavanne
.
“
Jérôme Rivière had harbored an undeniable bitterness because he hoped for positions within the RN that I considered he could not obtain..
.
»
Could other RN executives take the plunge? The entourage of Eric Zemmour lets rumors run. But Marine Le Pen does not want to believe it. “
No, it's not his rallying to him that will lead to others. Maybe there will be one or two other people? But it's often for the same reasons: we demand... and since we didn't get what we demanded, we go elsewhere... there will be zero political impact because Jérôme Rivière had zero political impact in the RN so I don't think he has any outside of the National Rally!"
On the move to Fréjus, Marine Le Pen reacts to the departure of Jérôme #Rivière in the camp of Eric #Zemmour: “J Rivière had fed a sourness because he was hoping for positions.
It's unpleasant but it remains anecdotal.
Zero impact pol because he had zero impact pol at the RN” @RFI pic.twitter.com/88QaLCSLYg
— Julien Chavanne (@julien_chavanne) January 20, 2022
This rallying is still a good catch for
Eric Zemmour.
With
Guillaume Peltier,
ex-number 2 of the LR party, who joined the campaign team of Éric Zemmour of which he became the spokesperson at the beginning of the month, Jérôme Rivière will be his double side National Rally.
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