One more step towards breaking up but still no big leap. In Marseille, Thursday, February 10, at his office free of any logo of the National Rally (RN), Stéphane Ravier announced that he would withdraw from the party’s national office and launch his own movement “Marseille first!” “. Then he shook hands with his supporters, grabbed a slice of pizza and turned on his heels without responding to the press. The RN senator from Bouches-du-Rhône, who has been increasing the pressure for two weeks, had made an appointment with his activists to denounce, once more, a “stab in the back planted from Paris”.
Among the hundred participants, many have already crossed the line towards Eric Zemmour’s training, Reconquest!, like the mayor of Cogolin (Var), Marc-Etienne Lansade, and dream that the elected Marseilles follow in their footsteps. “In my opinion, Stéphane will not stay. What still holds him back is thirty years of loyalty,” slips Frank Castejon, former RN manager in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, now with Mr. Zemmour. In the small crowd, legitimists are not welcome. The departmental head of “Youth with Marine” received a whim. With a bloody nose, he accuses the parliamentary attaché and right arm of Stéphane Ravier, Antoine Baudino, of having attacked him. Contacted, the latter did not react.
The elected Marseilles of the RN, them, are absent, including the niece of the senator, Sandrine D’Angio, ex-mayor of the sector. At the same time, a meeting was held at the Bouches-du-Rhône federation, on the other side of the city, chaired by Franck Allisio, close to Marine Le Pen, whose scalp Stéphane Ravier had been asking for since he left. withdrawn from the RN municipal group with three other elected officials. “The only question today is who Marine Le Pen chooses between Mr. Allisio and me”he yells in front of his supporters, fueling the escalation triggered, on January 31, by the choice of Sophie Grech, elected regional and municipal RN, to sponsor Eric Zemmour. “A Perjury”reacted Marine Le Pen, announcing his exclusion.
On Thursday, Jordan Bardella explained in an email to activists that he wanted Stéphane Ravier to stay at the RN, but that he supported Franck Allisio. “The choice has been madetranslates the senator. That of the Parisian bureaucrat. It is the choice of Marine Le Pen. So, I will draw conclusions soon. » In Paris, the management of the RN fears the loss of this sole senator of the party, which would mark a blow for the candidate. His entourage seeks to avoid exclusion, while banging his fist to dissuade further leaks.
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