Last September, Gilbert Collard imagined that Éric Zemmour would make an “extraordinary Prime Minister”.
From now on, he dreams of seeing the former political journalist settle at the Élysée.
Ten years after joining Marine Le Pen on the eve of the 2012 presidential campaign, Gilbert Collard has just let go of the National Rally candidate to join Éric Zemmour, barely three months before the presidential election in April 2022. The media lawyer , from the ranks of the left, who today pleads for a “rapprochement of the right-wing rights”, yet seems to have forgotten what he once promised.
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Presented in June 2011 as “the anti-racist guarantee of a Marine Le Pen in the midst of an internal clean hands operation” in a report broadcast by Canal Plus, Gilbert Collard then declared: “An anti-Semite, I kick his ass.
A racist, I can't stand him.
Everyone knows it !
“, he assured.
Saying he was convinced at the microphone of Europe 1 in September 2011 that Marine Le Pen had "completely changed" the National Front, the lawyer vouched for the demonization of the far-right party co-founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen.
And to formulate this promise loud and clear: "I will never associate myself with people who, directly or indirectly, would express xenophobia, racism or anti-Semitism", he swore.
From then on, the rallying of Gilbert Collard to Éric à Zemmour, several times condemned for "provocation to religious and racial hatred", raises questions.
Especially since on the stage of the Cannes meeting this Saturday, January 22, the MEP elected under the RN label praised the outspokenness of the candidate Zemmour and his "ability to saw the tongue of wood into chips".
