It is a tight organizational chart which was made public on Saturday April 30. Thirteen names appear there, much less than that revealed on April 19. In eleven days apart, some obvious differences, some major absentees.
Former Minister Philippe de Villiers, founder of the Movement for France, was still part of the authorities on April 19. It no longer appears in the latest version of the organization chart. A relative of Reconquête confirms that he has “taken from the field”as spokesperson Jean Messiha, “whose post actually ended with the presidential election”, justifies a party executive. Except that departures, there were others.
A certain number of men and women in the shadows, not necessarily among the most well-known figures of the general public, who occupied strategic positions in the communication, structuring or territorial network of Reconquête, have decided in recent days to turn the page Éric Zemmour.
According to the relatives of the former polemicist, everything was planned. The party cannot be organized in the same way as the campaign team, and the organization chart, the same people tell us, is still subject to change after the legislative elections. “It’s like in businessjustifies an elected official. You try something. If it doesn’t work, you readjust.” This is the official version. The unofficial version is that there is disappointment. “Where is the introspection, the results of the presidential election? asks one of those who followed the Zemmour adventure in its beginnings. There is a sectarian side to Reconquest”judges the same.
Another explanation is put forward for this wave of departure: the takeover by political professionals. “The regulars of partisan and scheming politics”, squeals a disappointed, evoking the Guillaume Peltier and other defectors from the National Rally. The consequence is the gradual sidelining of the band of young people who had spontaneously formed around Éric Zemmour. “To do politics, you have to be patientanswers a zemmourist. Maybe these people weren’t cut out for politics.”slice the same.