Robert Ménard continues to play the referee within the camp of the nationalist right.
Last weekend, the mayor of Béziers received Éric Zemmour in his town.
The city councilor, who had hitherto given his support to Marine Le Pen, "
implored
" him to unite with the contender of the National Rally in February, and that "
whoever is behind agrees to withdraw and to support the other
”.
Invited on CNews this Thursday, the chosen one put a part back in the machine.
"
Today, I have the feeling that there is more appetite at Éric Zemmour than at Marine Le Pen,
" he said.
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The candidate, now in a pocket square in the polls against the polemicist, is struggling.
And Robert Ménard does not help him.
"
Marine, the problem is her name, it is the history of her party, it is her assimilation to the extreme right,
" said the one who has long been at odds with the contender.
"
It is terrible the injustice that strikes her
," he continued, however.
I listened to Eric in Béziers, he says what the RN says, except that he says it in a different tone with other words.
And then it appears new, while Marine Le Pen (...) she appears to be a little aged, outdated ... We have seen them a lot, the Le Pen.
(...) It's terrible because she deserves much better than that.
"
"He doesn't live in this country"
A point of view that does not prevent him from being so critical of Eric Zemmour. For several weeks, the councilor has called on her not to compete with Marine Le Pen and to work with her. This time, Robert Ménard also urged him to "
stop talking nonsense
", especially when the latter assumes not to deal with purchasing power but only with security and immigration. “
Of course that's a mistake. It is because he does not live in this country! I don't know how we can say that
", breathed the mayor, calling Eric Zemmour to walk with him"
on the market
"of Béziers to"
see what we are going to talk to him about
". "
Of course people don't come to discuss the leader of theState in the Fifth Republic
», He insisted.
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As for the sequence of this Wednesday where we see Eric Zemmour, visiting the Milipol lounge, holding a sniper and targeting journalists while laughing, Robert Ménard was firm: "
It's bullshit to do that, he play the little soldier.
First you don't take a gun, then you point it at anyone, even smiling, that's the basics.
"And if the polemicist is"
not right to call a fool (Marlène Schiappa)
", the elected representative still reproached the minister for having, according to him,"
made the frightened virgin
".