France: Senator Ravier threatens to leave the National Rally for Zemmour

Stéphane Ravier on RFI on October 9, 2019. RFI

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Towards a new start at the National Rally?

The only senator from Marine Le Pen's party has taken a step closer to breaking up.

The Marseillais Stéphane Ravier could join Éric Zemmour in the coming days.

It would be the fifth RN parliamentarian to do so.

A torture that parasitizes the party's campaign for the presidential election in April.

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With our special correspondent in Marseille,

Campaign historians will remember that war can be declared over pizzas and glasses of rosé.

In front of his permanence and surrounded by his supporters, Stéphane Ravier settles his accounts:

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The blow too much for Stéphane Ravier is the exclusion of one of his relatives from the RN.

His fault: having given his sponsorship to Éric Zemmour.

►To listen also: Laurent Jacobelli: "The role of Éric Zemmour is to torpedo the National Rally"

The senator was actually only waiting for a good reason to break up with Marine Le Pen.

At the end of November, he appeared alongside Éric Zemmour in Marseille.

And in private, he did not hide his criticisms against his candidate considered "

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Nothing seems to prevent him now from joining

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MEP Nicolas Bay could do the same.

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", repeats, annoyed, the entourage of Marine Le Pen, who has not finished with the soap opera of rallies.

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