The poster for the meeting this Saturday, January 22 in Cannes broadcast on social networks showed around the presidential candidate Éric Zemmour, the faces of Jérôme Rivière, from the RN, Guillaume Peltier and Laurence Trochu, from LR, as well as Philippe de Villiers and Jean Messiha, a free spirit who passed through the National Rally. To these figures, we will have to add Gilbert Collard. Information, slipped to Parisian – Today in France Friday afternoon that the interested party refused to confirm but that several media gave in the evening, like BFMTV.
According to our information, Éric Zemmour’s entourage was in no hurry to welcome the RN troublemaker so quickly after having already registered two rallies from the RN camp this week: Jérôme Rivière as well as the identity cybermilitant Damien Rieu, who has not not failed to appear this Friday alongside Éric Zemmour at the Franco-Italian border. But Gilbert Collard would have made known his eagerness and it was finally agreed that he could participate in this public meeting whose theme is precisely “the union of the rights”. The place was not chosen by chance since it takes place in the Alpes-Maritimes, a traditional land of rapprochement between the right and the far right.
“What is this little river called? Rubicon! »
This Friday at the end of the afternoon, the MEP RN Gilbert Collard had already slipped some clues, in a vein that resembles him, during a Facebook live. Returning to the departure of Jérôme Rivière, announced this week in Le Parisien – Today in France, he comments: “He did it, I will not condemn him. We are free to express our fight wherever we want; the proof is that we welcomed people from the Republicans into the RN. Then to wonder: “How many will go to the river to drink this water?” “I, tomorrow, I’m going to bathe in the river. There’s a pretty little river near my house (…). What is this little river called? (…) Rubicon! he brags.
This rally, when it is formalized, will therefore be the third of the week since the RN. This could begin to seriously agitate the Lepenist troops. “It is good that the breach is still opening, it shows that something is happening and that there is something rotten in the kingdom of RN! rejoices one of the architects of this rapprochement. But this departure does not come as a surprise. An extravagant personality, Gilbert Collard is a free electron within the RN which he only conceded to join in 2018 after frolicking at the Navy Blue Rally.
Last October 15, Gilbert Collard and Éric Zemmour, whose personal relations date back to 1997, had already displayed themselves side by side during a public meeting in Nîmes (Gard) as part of the politico-promotional tour of “La France has not said its last word” (Rubempré), the polemicist’s book.
“It was a meeting of friendship, of a reader”, then simpered the MEP, who was already pleading for a “rapprochement between” Marine Le Pen and the one who was not yet the Reconquest candidate. He then concluded: “All the people around her are remarkable. The proof: I’m not there! »
“What do you want us to do?” We are not going to fire all the people we suspect of wanting to leave”, reacts a close friend of Marine Le Pen who adds, gratingly: “Zemmour won two MEPs this week, we won two points in the polls! »