PARIS (Reuters) – Stephane Ravier, senator for the Bouches-du-Rhne National Rally, announced on Sunday that he would support Eric Zemmour for the presidential election in April, criticizing Marine Le Pen for having lost her fighting spirit.
Stphane Ravier, the party’s only elected member of the Senate, had already announced his departure from the national office and the creation of his own movement, called “Marseille first!”, considering himself betrayed by the Parisian leadership in a conflict with another official. movement location.
Saying that he had noticed that his ideas and his convictions “are no longer carried by Marine Le Pen and that they are carried by Eric Zemmour”, Stphane Ravier declared on Europe 1 that “it is obviously coherent, logical to support Eric Zemmour” .
“I will therefore support, there, now, immediately, Eric Zemmour in this presidential campaign because I am convinced that he is the real unifier,” he added.
A member of the FN and then of the RN for more than 30 years, Stphane Ravier, who had already promised his sponsorship of Marine Le Pen and confirmed this choice, nevertheless criticized the latter for being for several years “permanently in the process of retreating, compose even before being read”.
“She’s more niac, she wants more,” he said. “She doesn’t want to fight anymore. How is she going to do, if she were to be elected, against a Vladimir Putin, against a Biden? You have to have the niaque.”
Jordan Bardella, president of the RN, questioned on RTL judged that the departure of Stphane Ravier “is part of the adventures of the campaign”, but he also denounced “a sabotage company which is doing everything to prevent Marine Le Pen and the National Rally to reach the second round of the presidential election.
(Edited by Marc Angrand)