Eric Zemmour’s disastrous campaign has obviously just done collateral damage. The editorial director and co-founder of the very right-wing journal The WrongJacques de Guillebon, is about to be demoted by his shareholder, Laurent Meeschaert, confirming information from The letter a. It is the position taken by the newspaper considered too severe with regard to the ex-candidate of the extreme right which would be at the origin of this dismissal. “For six months, we tried to find a modus vivendi on the line to hold. All we wanted was to do journalism”relates Jacques de Guillebon, who will give up his number one spot to his current number two, Arthur de Watrigant, in September.
Support for Eric Zemmour since the end of 2021, and unsuccessful legislative candidate under the colors of Reconquest!, Laurent Meeschaert, owner of 87% of the newspaper, denies any causal link. “I make the difference between my commitment and the journalists”he promises, acknowledging, however, “differences of view with Jacques de Guillebon on the political level”, but denying having wished to dismiss him, as is rumored. “I respect Jacques, because it is the DNA of the newspaper”explains this patron of the right, who also admits having asked his editorial staff to work on “the union of the rights, so that there can be collaborations between the different currents”.
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A vitriolic article published in December 2021 and entitled “Announced crash of EZ 2022 flight for the Elysée” would have ignited the powder. He describes in detail the unpreparedness of Eric Zemmour, a man “walled in his certainties”self-centered, prisoner of an entourage deemed incompetent. “Some members of Eric Zemmour’s entourage let Laurent Meeschaert know that they were unhappy”, relates the future ex-director. Arthur de Watrigant also admits that the shareholder found the article “gross in form”, but he also assures that, as in a “friendship, we explain each other and, after a bottle, it’s over”. From the start, Jacques de Guillebon, a Catholic royalist, admirer of Viktor Orban, did not believe in the candidacy of the former journalist from Figaro. He even advised Marion Maréchal, whom he is close to, to join him. Moreover, since the rallying of the niece of Marine Le Pen to the founder of Reconquest!, relations with the editorial director have been stretched.
From September, Jacques de Guillebon will take the title of adviser in charge of the development of the title “on the digital and in the intellectual field”explains Arthur de Watrigant. The discreet monthly, distributed in 15,000 copies and employing seven full-time employees, not counting the freelancers, has never made money since its creation in 2017, forcing Laurent Meeschaert to bail out the coffers each year.