Reconquest! : the difficult transformation of a “fan-club” into a political party


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Eric Zemmour’s movement has appointed 743 local executives since September to establish itself in the territories. The hardest part begins…




By Charles Sapin

Guillaume Peltier surrounded by Marion Marechal and Nicolas Bay, during the presidential campaign, in April 2022.
Guillaume Peltier surrounded by Marion Maréchal and Nicolas Bay, during the presidential campaign, in April 2022.
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VSlike an air of a business seminar. This Saturday morning, everything the young Reconquest movement! count of departmental representatives gathered in the basement of the Novotel de Sèvres, at the gates of Paris. Freshly appointed for the majority of them, the apprentice political executives listen, pens and notebooks in hand, to the introductory remarks of a weekend of training which promises to be loaded. Facing them, the three vice-presidents of the Zemmourist party follow one another: the ex-RN Nicolas Bay, the former FN deputy for Vaucluse Marion Maréchal and the ex-LR Guillaume Peltier. Almost a year after leaving their respective movements, all know that their political survival now depends on the success of a major undertaking: transforming the “fan club” of the former presidential candidate…




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