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Presidential 2022: François-Xavier Bellamy gives his sponsorship to Eric Zemmour

2022-02-24T08:16:55.173Z


The president of the LR delegation to the European Parliament assures: “If tomorrow there were to be a second round between Emmanuel Macron and Eric Zemmour, I would vote for Eric Zemmour”.


It is not support.

François-Xavier Bellamy will have insisted on this point.

Guest of the morning of Europe 1 Thursday, February 24, the boss of the French delegation Les Républicains in the European Parliament called for taking the

"measure of the seriousness of what is being played out"

while several candidates

"who represent movements important in the opinion could be prevented from running"

in the presidential election due to a lack of sponsorship.

The MEP thus announced that he was

"taking his responsibilities"

by granting his sponsorship to Eric Zemmour,

"the most late candidate in the quest today".

While calling on other elected officials to

.

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According to the latest count of the Constitutional Council, the Reconquest candidate is still missing!

150 signatures of elected officials to qualify for the presidential race.

When Valérie Pécresse already has four times more signatures than it takes.

A situation that convinced the candidate of LR has more leniency as to the granting of sponsorships of elected officials from his camp to another candidacy than his own.

Questioned, the evening before, on the set of the program

Face à BFM

, Valérie Pécresse assured about the possible sponsorship of François-Xavier Bellamy to Eric Zemmour:

“If he says that his political support is acquired for me, that don't shock me.

Sponsoring is not supporting.

On the other hand, if it is to sponsor and support, we are out of the Republicans.

A step that the former head of the LR list in the 2019 European elections did not take this Thursday morning

. ] obliges”

.

The MEP reiterated his support for Valérie Pécresse, ensuring that he was not

“one of those who change course on a whim.

We do not despise the solidarities that have been formed in difficult fights

, ”he added in reference to the last European elections.

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The discretion of the MEP over the past four months – in the Pécresse campaign as in the media – has far from gone unnoticed in the LR ranks.

His entourage highlights his monopolization of the Strasbourg Parliament, particularly during the French presidency of the European Union.

Last September, the elected Conservative did not praise less

“the merit”

of Eric Zemmour for

“asking a fundamental question: that of the capacity that we will have to preserve those who bind us, what unites us, those who make we are French."

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Such a convergence of opinion pushed, this Thursday morning, François-Xavier Bellamy assured that

"if tomorrow there were to be a second round between Emmanuel Macron and Eric Zemmour, [he] would vote for Eric Zemmour"

.

It is not certain that, in such a scenario, his candidate Valérie Pécresse leans on the same side.

Source: lefigaro

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