His resignation is not yet registered.
It is nonetheless irremediable.
Jean Messiah, delegate for studies and arguments for the National Rally, is about to slam the door as reported by the weekly l'Obs.
The fifty-year-old has, according to our information, made an appointment Thursday morning with Marine Le Pen to announce him.
In question, an ideological disagreement on the question of Islamism, mixed with a resentment of disappointed ambitions.
This former enarque who joined the National Front in 2016 was propelled spokesperson for the
“Horatii”.
A mysterious group of experts and senior officials advising Marine Le Pen during the last presidential election.
There he works to feed the candidate's program in exchange for wide media visibility and comfortable remuneration.
"He is the greatest patriot I know"
, then praises his boss.
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After the defeat of 2017, the one that many executives of the movement describe as
"totally crazy and uncontrollable"
will go from disappointment to disappointment.
Appointed by Marine Le Pen to the national office of the RN, he will not - to his surprise - among the candidates selected in place eligible on the list of Europeans.
Even snub during the municipal elections in Paris where he hoped to obtain the nomination of the party to the flame.
It will ultimately return to a personality outside the party, Serge Federbusch.
His repeated requests, in recent weeks, to get the head of the list in the Aisne in order to become regional councilor for Hauts-de-France after the next local elections have met the same end of inadmissibility.
But the real cause of divorce is above all ideological.
Unlike Marine Le Pen, Jean Messiha does not see a difference in nature between Islam and Islamism.
But a simple difference of degree.
"It is time to say that Islam is incompatible with the Republic",
he usually supports on social networks as on television sets of which he has become a regular despite his lack of elective mandate.
Outings which forced Marine le Pen, in the aftermath of the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine and Nice attacks in recent weeks, to justify herself.
"I do not believe that there is a religion which is incompatible with the Republic,
thus supported Marine Le Pen last October 25 on the set of the Grand Jury.
It is his opinion, it is neither mine nor that of the National Rally.
John is a Coptic Egyptian, perhaps he has a heightened sensitivity on this subject.
"
An exit which had the gift of getting Jean Messiha out of its hinges:
“As a 'Coptic Egyptian', I do not have an 'exacerbated' opinion on the subject of Islam.
Just a realistic opinion based on experience, ”
he released on
Twitter a
few days later.
A disagreement which pushes some RN executives to add Jean Messiha to the long list of those sacrificed on the altar of the
“demonization”
of the party.