Wednesday February 7, Nicolas Bay was indeed the only elected official from his party.
But this day was, for the European deputy of Reconquête!, former executive of the National Rally, a consecration.
It was the end of a long negotiation.
It was a political victory.
In Strasbourg, in front of a few journalists, and in the company of Marion Maréchal, head of the Reconquête list!
for the European elections next June, he announced that he was going to join the CRE group, dominated by the Poles of PiS and by the Italians of Fratelli d'Italia, the party of the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.
This group is preparing to welcome the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the day after the European election.
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“It was Nicolas Bay who negotiated everything, it was really his work
,” notes an executive from Eric Zemmour’s party.
The man is above all the last of the four European deputies who cast off the moorings of the RN to join Éric Zemmour to still be with Reconquête!.
The other three, disappointed or…
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