François-Xavier Bellamy, MEP for the Republicans (LR), announced Thursday that he was bringing his sponsorship to Eric Zemmour for the presidential election in order to avoid a “major democratic crisis”and assured that he would vote for him if he reached the second round with Emmanuel Macron.
“I have decided to grant my sponsorship to Eric Zemmour, the candidate most behind in the quest for sponsorships”said on Europe 1 the former leader of LR at the 2019 Europeans, for whom it is a question of ” responsibility “.
Mr. Bellamy called “all elect” who did not give sponsorship “to react to prevent the major democratic crisis that we would experience tomorrow if we were in a situation of lasting blockage”.
“Emmanuel Macron has deeply damaged our country”
Valérie Pécresse’s special adviser, responsible in his campaign organization chart for relations with the European Parliament, also assured that “If tomorrow there were to be a duel between Emmanuel Macron and Eric Zemmour, I would vote for Eric Zemmour”.
“I believe that Emmanuel Macron has deeply damaged our country, our democratic life, and I believe that we absolutely need to turn the page on five years of Macronism”who has “deeply damaged our country” and “our democratic life”said the elected official, to the asserted conservative positions.
Already on Wednesday, six LR senators, including Sébastien Meurant and Etienne Blanc, had announced that they were bringing their sponsorship to Eric Zemmour, which “not worth support”they said in a joint statement, citing the need to fight “democratic nonsense”.
“We are a few days away from the end of sponsorships and we have candidates who represent important movements in opinion, and who could be prevented from running for president” even though they would be “likely to qualify for the second round”a souligné M. Bellamy. “The question before us is: do we still want to be a democracy? What would we say if it happened in other countries? » he wondered.