Gilbert Collard will join Éric Zemmour, Valérie Pécresse and Laurent Wauquiez appear together during a trip

It was on his Facebook page that MEP Gilbert Collard posted an evasive message to announce that he was leaving the RN to join Eric Zemmour’s campaign: “Tomorrow I’m going to swim at the Rubicon River”. “Information confirmed this evening by several relatives of the candidate. It must be said that in less than 24 hours the hard knocks follow one another for Marine Le Pen with the departures of Jérôme Rivière and Damien Rieu. On the eve of the meeting of Éric Zemmour, Saturday January 22 in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes), this new arrival within his Reconquest party looks like a great war prize in a campaign which shows a drop in speed between legal news, heckled displacement and decline in the polls “, reports Jean-Christophe Galeazzi.

On the side of the RN, if we prefer to minimize the rallies for the moment, it remains a blow to morale. On the right, reunion operation between Valérie Pécresse and Laurent Wauquiez to “display a cordial understanding when these two never really appreciated each other. This public outing was missing from the family album, since its designation, Valérie Pécresse had multiplied the trips to former primary candidates, willingly appearing with Éric Ciotti and Xavier Bertrand”, analyzes the journalist at France Télévisions.