Victor Chabert 7:50 a.m., February 18, 2022

The former spokesman for Marine Le Pen's campaign, Nicolas Bay, announced on Wednesday that he was joining the team of ex-controversy Éric Zemmour for the presidential election.

This is the tenth rallying from the RN.

But on the side of LR, no executive except Guillaume Peltier has yet crossed the threshold.

Yet this is what the teams of the Reconquest candidate are waiting for.

RN MEP Nicolas Bay announced this week to join Éric Zemmour.

This is the tenth rallying from the National Rally towards Reconquest with a view to the presidential election.

The candidate wants to unite the rights, but apart from Guillaume Peltier, no other figure of the Republicans has joined him.

If his militant base comes massively from LR, the challenge now for Éric Zemmour is to attract famous executives.

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Officially the strategists of Éric Zemmour are not afraid of the imbalance between the rallies from the Republicans and those from the National Rally.

About Nicolas Bay, one of the executives of the campaign confides: "There is not a sheet of cigarette paper which separates his line from that of, for example, Eric Ciotti."

Keep the pressure on Valérie Pécresse

Despite everything, his relatives are aware that they now need support from the Republicans.

For them, the crossing of curves with Valérie Pécresse is very important.

The Zemmour camp greedily watches candidate LR tumble in the polls, she is now estimated at 12% by the Odoxa institute, when Éric Zemmour is at 14%.

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If this trend is confirmed, they hope that this will cause LR voters to flee to the former journalist from

Figaro,

and with them the rallying of Republican executives or parliamentarians, who have so far been hesitant.

Ideally, they would like them to intervene at the beginning of March, to maintain the pressure on Valérie Pécresse, which would allow them to grab the few points they lack to overtake Marine Le Pen, and thus reach the second round.