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With the crisis, Florian Philippot's party is recovering financial health

2021-08-08T16:17:04.173Z


Leading the way against containment measures, curfews or wearing a mask, Florian Philippot has seen his movement grow from 2,000 to more than 25,000 members between March 2020 and today.


The question has been blooming on social networks since the beginning of August: but who finances Florian Philippot?

Anecdotal six months ago, the rallies against

"the government health dictatorship"

organized by the leader of the Les Patriotes party have changed dimension.

The announcement by the Head of State then the vote of the health pass by Parliament transformed the few hundred activists, gathered every Saturday in front of the Ministry of Health, into hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marching all over France.

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"They did nothing but lie": in Paris, protesters anti-health pass driven by the same mistrust

The logistics of these growing processions, largely provided by Les Patriotes, are impressive: a giant screen on the Place du Trocadéro, tanks equipped with powerful sound systems, a hundred security officers… Who pays the bill?

“The Kremlin, a little Trump, without forgetting Kim Jong-un,

launches, mockingly, Florian Philippot.

More seriously, all our resources come from our members and our donors. ”

A movement without employees or rent to pay

After several years of famine,

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Source: lefigaro

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