The elected representative of Loir-et-Cher announced his rallying to the far-right candidate. The reaction of his party was immediate.
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A choice take for Eric Zemmour’s campaign. The deputy and former vice-president of the Republicans, Guillaume Peltier, announced Sunday, January 9 on Europe 1 and CNews, that he was joining the far-right candidate for the presidential election. “I made the decision to support the only candidate of the right, the only candidate of the RPR, I join Eric Zemmour”, declared the elected representative of Loir-et-Cher.
“I made my decision with great seriousness and enthusiasm, assured Guillaume Peltier. I was number two in the Republicans, spokesperson for Nicolas Sarkozy, and on behalf of the 40% of LR members who voted like me for Eric Ciotti, I decided to support Eric Zemmour to be our next president of the Republic.”
Shortly after this announcement, Eric Zemmour’s campaign team announced that Guillaume Peltier would be named spokesperson for the far-right candidate. “By this decision, he is in fact excluded from our political family and can no longer claim it”, reacted the president of the Republican party, Christian Jacob, on Twitter.
While he no longer exercised any responsibility in the instances of LR, @G_Peltier goes back to basics by joining Éric Zemmour. By this decision, he is de facto excluded from our political family and can no longer claim it.
– Christian JACOB (@ ChJacob77) January 9, 2022
At the beginning of December, Guillaume Peltier had made waves in his camp by wondering “how to remain insensitive to speech” by Eric Zemmour after the polemicist’s first candidate meeting. He was then removed from his post as vice-president of the Republicans.