Ambroise de Rancourt, a classical pianist trained at the Paris Conservatory, likes to play across the entire range. A former voter and disappointed activist of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, close to sovereignist circles, circling for a time around the Republican Spring, this 37-year-old man, fresh out of the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA, Aimé-Césaire promotion, 2020-2021) will become at 1is November chief of staff of Marine Le Pen.
As announced The Figarothe president of the National Rally (RN) group in the National Assembly has chosen this civil servant from the Ministry of the Armed Forces, with a brief past as a concert pianist, to strengthen her close guard – and fill a vacant position. A similar profile, whose name has not yet been decided, is to arrive in the same role alongside Jordan Bardella, whose entourage is considered, internally, to be far too frivolous – even though the president of the RN was running for the post of Prime Minister in June.
Having served for three years at the Ministry of the Armed Forces, Ambroise de Rancourt met Marine Le Pen during the Covid-19 crisis in 2021. The two were put in touch by former pollster Jérôme Sainte-Marie. “I think this is one of the most significant services I have been able to provide to Marine Le Pen,” said the man who was a candidate for the first time under the Le Pen colours in the last legislative elections.
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Since then, Ambroise de Rancourt, a graduate of the ENA, has been providing notes to the MP for Pas-de-Calais. With his Versailles origins, he also knows Renaud Labaye, Marine Le Pen’s right-hand man in the Assembly, and François Durvye, one of her close advisors and first collaborator of conservative billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin. His sovereignist ideas are also very much appreciated by Jean-Philippe Tanguy, an RN MP (Somme) close to Marine Le Pen.
Resolute on Islamism but not suspected of Islamophobia
The Internet has kept track of his first political loves, before he joined the ENA as an independent candidate on the second attempt: an open letter from a disappointed voter to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in October 2017, published on the blog of the Eurosceptic left-wing activist Coralie Delaume – who died in 2020; articles on the sites of the sovereignist, anti-liberal and pro-Russian sphere, by the former lawyer Régis de Castelnau or the blogger Olivier Berruyer (founder of the site Les-crises). Ambroise de Rancourt develops a line of thought hostile to the European Union, to liberalism and even to capitalism, a resolute line on Islamism but not suspected of Islamophobia, foreign to a left-right divide.
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