During a press briefing held a little earlier, Marion Maréchal was very offensive towards the president of her party, denouncing the “triple fault” of Eric Zemmour whom she accuses of wanting to present Reconquest candidates against the RN.
“Presenting Reconquest candidates in legislative constituencies means taking the infinite risk of winning Macronist or far-left deputies,” she said, refusing to “participate in yet another division of the rights” and taking note of the fracture with Mr. Zemmour.
These accusations were refuted by the latter: “I am and I will always be for the rally. I affirm that Reconquête and I are ready to withdraw candidates in the event of an agreement with the RN, the LR and all the others left of good will”, he wrote on X, saying he was “disgusted and hurt”.
The dissensions between the unsuccessful presidential candidate, who increased the attacks on the RN, and Ms. Maréchal, more inclined to openness, had animated the last days, until the abandonment of negotiations between Reconquest and the party to the flame on Tuesday.
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“World record for betrayal”
“We refuse the principle of divisive candidacies”, against the alliance concluded between the excluded Republican boss Eric Ciotti and the National Rally, launched Ms. Maréchal on Wednesday.
She was accompanied by Guillaume Peltier and Nicolas Bay, vice-presidents of Reconquête, and Laurence Trochu. The three, as well as Marion Maréchal, were elected Reconquest MEPs on Sunday.
“They should hand in their mandate, there are four European deputies who betray all our activists 48 hours after (their election). It’s the world record for betrayal,” launched Eric Zemmour.
After Marion Maréchal’s declaration, the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, big winner of the European elections, welcomed “a responsible declaration which goes in the direction of a patriotic dynamic to win and to act tomorrow”, in a message published on X .
The day before, he had directly attacked Eric Zemmour, believing that “the invectives he has multiplied against the National Rally and the sometimes very excessive positions he can take have made the conditions for an agreement obsolete”.
Several sources have also confirmed information from the JDD according to which four members of Reconquête, reputed to be close to Marion Maréchal, won an RN nomination for the legislative elections on Wednesday.
Could there be more? “In the draft agreement with the RN which ultimately collapsed, there were 60 constituencies, ten to fifteen of which were winnable…”, breathes a connoisseur of the file.
