The drop in temperature was not only due to the winter period.
This Monday afternoon, Senator Stéphane Ravier was freshly received on the phone by the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella.
The hearing, requested by the boss of the RN group from the Marseille city council, was intended to be an opportunity to plead leniency with regard to one of its elected officials: City councilor Sophie Grech, having lost the quality of member of the RN , for granting his sponsorship to Eric Zemmour.
But two months before the presidential election, the parliamentarian was able to discover that the time was not quite for indulgence vis-à-vis the nationalist rival given neck and neck with Marine Le Pen in the polls. .
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“I told Stéphane Ravier that I wanted him to stay at the National Rally and chair a municipal group in Marseille without Ms. Grech. This elected member has lost her status as a member in accordance with our statutes. It is a question of respect vis-à-vis our elected officials and our activists. From the moment you are a member and elected of the National Rally, you sponsor the candidacy of Marine Le Pen. Any other choice is to put yourself outside the movement”,
firmly assumes at
Figaro
Jordan Bardella.
The leader of the RN thus decides, unsurprisingly, in the direction of the four RN municipal councilors of Marseille, including the departmental delegate Franck Alisio, who preferred last week to slam the door of Stéphane Ravier's group rather than continue to sit on the sides of the
“renegade”
Sophie Grech.
"Double People"
“Unfortunately, the attempt at conciliation with the president of the RN has, for the time being, not succeeded,
reacted on Twitter Stéphane Ravier who did not wish to respond to
Figaro.
It is a terrible lack of consideration of local work and municipal issues in Marseille.
In the days to come, I will bring together the elected officials and - above all - the activists.
A half-veiled message of regret and threats that was not to the liking of the headquarters of the National Rally.
“These are double people, who openly make fun of our faces
, do not take off a frame.
They expect one thing to be fired.
If they want to campaign at Zemmour, let them go.
If they want to stay, they are welcome.
But that they have a little courage and frankness and that they make a decision.
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During a lunch at the Senate a few months ago, Stéphane Ravier made a commitment to Jordan Bardella to sponsor Marine Le Pen and bring her his vote.
But against a backdrop of rivalry between Éric Zemmour and the RN candidate, the situation seems to have come to a complete standstill.
Between on the one hand Marine Le Pen who enjoins those in his camp
"who want to leave from, but to leave now"
and on the other hand executives, like Stéphane Ravier, who assured Friday in Current Values:
" If they want to kick me out, let me know.
At least it will be clear."
An ambiguity that a manager does not see well persisting:
"Either they make a decision or we will quickly take it in their place."