Lhen he is handed a vintage rifle, Julien Limongi, National Rally (RN) deputy, willingly lends himself to the souvenir photo exercise with the cohort of actors who surround him. All proudly display their imperial disguises during the reconstruction of a Napoleonic bivouac, on a Saturday afternoon in September in Nangis, in Seine-et-Marne. The elected official’s parliamentary collaborator leans gently towards our photographer to whisper a smile: “You see, we don’t target journalists. » Reference to Éric Zemmour who did so during the 2022 presidential campaign.
Indeed, Julien Limongi, the new deputy for the fourth constituency of Seine-et-Marne, did not take aim at us (let us thank him here). This kind of slippage has no place in France’s leading far-right party, and even less since it wants to restore its respectability sullied by the “bad apples” candidates for the last legislative elections, racist, xenophobic or anti-Semitic – not luckily, there are some left, as well as The Days showed it again and again. The very courteous Julien Limongi, in a blue suit, white shirt and red tie, presents as well as he expresses himself. And since he won the June-July blitzkrieg campaign, he has been combing his rural constituency to gain the visibility and local anchoring that he lacks.
