Jordan Bardella takes note and asks his former colleague to show “
courage
”.
On the evening of Wednesday January 19, the head of the National Rally delegation to the European Parliament, Jérôme Rivière, announced in an interview with Le
Parisien
his departure from the party to join Éric Zemmour.
This Friday on LCI, the boss of the flame party, Jordan Bardella, wished him "
good road
", while asking him to resign from his current position.
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"
When you are elected in a party, (...), that you leave without telling anyone, you have to respect the people who elected you
", thus declared the leader of the RN.
According to him, it is to show “
the slightest correction
” and the “
least respect
” to leave his functions in the European Parliament.
Jérôme Rivière had indeed been elected in 2019, under the colors of the party of Marine Le Pen.
Zemmour “in free fall”
“
When you leave a party, you have to have the courage and the honesty to follow through and resign from your mandate,
” insisted Jordan Bardella again.
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Regarding the departure of the former spokesperson for Marine Le Pen, the elected RN stressed that Jérôme Rivière "
wanted responsibilities that he did not have within the (party)
", and that he therefore left to "
seek them elsewhere
" and "
covet a certain number of missions
".
Less than 80 days before the first round of the presidential election, Jordan Bardella also recalls that his candidate is "
the only candidate from the national camp to be able to qualify for the second round, and above all to be able to beat Emmanuel Macron
".
While Éric Zemmour is "
in free fall in the polls
".
