“I made my decision with great seriousness and enthusiasm”. Asked about Europe 1 this Sunday morning, the former member of the Republicans, Guillaume Peltier, announced joining the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour in his campaign for the presidential election. He will even be the spokesperson for the former polemicist during his campaign, according to BFM, information that Le Parisien is able to confirm.
“I was number two in the Republicans, spokesperson for Nicolas Sarkozy and I believe that on behalf of the 40% of LR members who voted like me for Eric Ciotti, I decided to support Éric Zemmour so that he or our next President of the Republic, ”he announces.
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“I made the decision to support the only candidate of the right, the only candidate faithful to the values of the RPR, the only candidate capable of beating Emmanuel Macron because capable of bringing together all the voters of the right”, he indicates .
“I have no guarantee of a non-rallying (of Valérie Pécresse) to Emmanuel Macron”, he criticizes, judging that “Valérie Pécresse and Emmanuel Macron, it’s the same thing”.
The call to LR voters to join Zemmour
Guillaume Peltier withdraws from LR and calls on “voters” and “LR parliamentarians” to join Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!).
At the beginning of December, Guillaume Peltier had made waves in his camp by asking himself “how to remain insensitive to the speech for France” of Eric Zemmour during his first candidate meeting. The Republicans’ strategic committee then dismissed the LR deputy from his position as vice-president of the party.
It was not the first time that Guillaume Peltier provoked the ire of LR officials. At the end of May 2021, he had assured “carry the same convictions” as the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, close to the RN. What had earned him to be dismissed from his position of number two in LR. Then, at the end of November, while he was showing his support for Eric Ciotti at the LR congress, he declared that he “no longer wishes to seal with the voters of Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen”.
“An epiphenomenon”, according to Marine Le Pen
On her way to Cerbère (Pyrénées-Orientales) on the French-Spanish border, the other far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen (RN), vilified Mr Peltier, who “checked all the boxes, did all political movements ”. That he joins Eric Zemmour “does not surprise me,” she added, referring to “an epiphenomenon.”
For his part, the spokesperson for Valérie Pécresse, Othman Nasrou considered that “Guillaume Peltier had already left in practice, nothing really new”. “He is now returning to the starting point of his political commitment to the far right,” he continued on Twitter. Also on the social network, Eric Ciotti described the defection of the LR deputy as “serious fault”.
Minister MoDem Marc Fesneau, from the same department as Mr. Peltier, also condemned on the same social network this “return to the parent company, at the end of the pretentious, the ambitious and the opportunists”.
Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!) Will present his wishes to the press on Monday from his campaign HQ in Paris, and will also unveil the first theme of his program. According to our information, Guillaume Peltier will be present and will participate in the morning in the strategic committee of the far-right candidate.