The former identity manager and activist at the National Rally Damien Rieu announced on Thursday January 20 that he was joining the team of far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, the day after the rallying to the latter of the MEP RN Jérôme Rivière .
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"
I have made the decision to join Eric Zemmour's campaign in my turn
", wrote in a press release posted on Twitter Damien Rieu, who until now was parliamentary attaché to MEP Philippe Olivier, brother-in-law and close adviser to Marine Le Pen.
"
It is thanks to the political courage of Eric Zemmour that we will be able to build a long-term movement to defend the interests of the French
," added this former executive of the anti-migrant movement Generation Identity, recently dissolved.
An “unprecedented dynamic”
“
Welcome to the Reconquest, dear Damien!
As always, your insolence and courage have chosen the right fight!
“, tweeted Eric Zemmour.
Damien Rieu believes that at the RN, “
despite all our efforts and our hopes, we are no longer able to mobilize our voters.
Our results are stagnating or even regressing.
Many executives and activists no longer believe in it
”.
“
But time is running out.
The race against time is on to prevent the programmed disappearance of our country
", adds the former RN candidate for the departmental in the Somme, welcoming "
the unprecedented dynamic
" of Eric Zemmour, with whom he shares the denunciation of a supposed "
great replacement
" of the European population by a non-European immigrant population.
On Wednesday evening, RN MEP Jérôme Rivière, who was one of the spokespersons for Marine Le Pen's campaign, announced in Le Parisien that he was joining Éric Zemmour's campaign, believing that the RN candidate would not was "
not in a position to win the presidential election
".
Former UMP deputy and activist in the MPF of Philippe de Villiers, Jérôme Rivière criticized
the "inability
" of the RN to win the regional elections, evoking a "
closed
" party and judging Marine Le Pen's project "
in no way ambitious
".
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Marine Le Pen minimized this departure Thursday on the sidelines of a trip to Fréjus (Var).
"
There will be zero political impact because Jérôme Rivière had zero political impact at the RN, so I don't believe he has any outside the RN
", she declared, evoking a "
sourness
" in the elected official.
who "
hoped for positions within the RN that I considered he could not obtain
".
About Damien Rieu, those around him judged that this departure showed his "
duplicity
", as for Jérôme Rivière.
