He first asked Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen to join their candidacies.
He then continued to support the second and to regret the "
excessive brutality
" of the first.
Again this morning, Robert Ménard affirmed that the candidate of the National Rally was "
capable of gathering
", on the sole condition of "
taking his distance
" with his former nationalist opponent, eliminated at the gates of the second round.
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Invited on BFMTV, the mayor of Béziers noted the failure of the Reconquest! party.
As for its leader's call to vote for Marine Le Pen, carried in the second round by 23.4% of the vote, he judges that “
we can honestly do without it
”.
Robert Ménard then urged the RN candidate to move away from a "
stunted, backward-looking right, embodied very well by Eric Zemmour
".
"
She worked a lot, I find it clearer and I believe that we will have a better and more enlightening debate for the French
", estimated the mayor of Béziers, while judging that "
the secret of Marine Le Pen
" is that she "
is close to the little people
".
“
She hasn't come all the way yet, but enough that it's no longer possible to get rid of her out of hand.
“The mayor of Béziers, however, judged that the victory would be “
very complicated
”: “
You have to be an activist to imagine that it is in your pocket.
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