It could have been the political coup of the year.
In any case,
“it was a strong approach
,” summarizes François-Xavier Bellamy.
According to our information, the MEP Les Républicains (LR) was offered several times, in 2023, a place on the list of the National Rally (RN) by Jordan Bardella, president of the flame party and head of the list for the European elections next June.
At the time, François-Xavier Bellamy had not yet been officially designated by Éric Ciotti, president of LR, to lead the right-wing list in a crucial election.
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“What interested Jordan Bardella was not so much the substance, the political line, the ideas and the project, as the desire to make a coup,”
François-Xavier Bellamy
explains to Le
Figaro .
“But that’s not the way I see politics.”
A relative adds:
“In the current context, some could have seen it as an ease.”
No matter, MEP LR declined anyway.
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