Presidential: Gilbert Collard is preparing to join Eric Zemmour

Eric Zemmour will garner a new weight support that bleeds Marine Le Pen’s camp a little more. Gilbert Collard, former tenor of the National Rally and the National Front before him, should join the candidate of the Reconquête! in the presidential election, according to information from BFMTV and the Parisian, Friday, January 21. The formalization of this major rally should take place on Saturday, during the meeting of candidate Zemmour in Cannes. Meeting which the lawyer should therefore attend.

Gilbert Collard had already hinted that he could join the camp of the former polemicist in a somewhat cryptic live video on Facebook on Friday. ” Tomorrow [samedi, ndlr], I’m going to swim in the river. What is her name again? Rubicon “, he had thus replied to a user. And this rallying would have been carefully considered by the lawyer. The Ile-de-France daily even specifies that, in the ranks of Reconquest!, we would have liked him to intervene a little later than Saturday.

The RN minimizes

The MEP is not the first to leave the frontist camp to join the team of Eric Zemmour, heckled lately during some of his trips. Already this week, the National Rally of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella has accused the departure of the co-founder of Generation Identity Damien Rieu, and the leader of the European deputies of the party Jérôme Rivière. And the bloodletting might not end there. According to information from BFMTV, two other MEPs labeled RN could join the Zemmour camp during the Cannes meeting on Saturday.

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On the side of the National Rally, we prefer to minimize these defections. “I have a long experience of presidential campaigns. That people feel closer to one candidate rather than another is not open to criticism (…) But in politics too, we can act with righteousness. The salami technique consisting of announcing a rally every day, I know it by heart, ”said candidate Marine Le Pen to the news channel. The candidate can still be reassured by looking at the latest polls, which give her ahead of Eric Zemmour in the voting intentions for the first round of the presidential election. It oscillates around 17-18% of intentions when the former polemicist no longer exceeds the 14% mark for the time being.

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