“It’s a soap opera, I’m not a fan of reality TV”said Laurent Jacobelli, spokesperson for the National Rally (RN) and its candidate for the Élysée, Marine Le Pen, this Sunday on franceinfo, about the rallying of RN executives to his rival, Éric Zemmour. “‘Plus belle la vie’ applied to politics, honestly, I’m not interested”he snapped.
“These people are anticipating, preparing for the death of the National Rally” in the event that Marine Le Pen would suffer another defeat in the presidential election, he argued. But at the National Rally, “we want to save the life of France, it’s a nobler ambition, a presidential ambitionhe added. So, their electoral tampering, their party tampering, we leave them”, targeting in particular Nicolas Bay, who defected on Wednesday February 16 to join the camp of the Reconquest candidate! (far right).
Which line for Marine Le Pen? ➡️ “Éric Zemmour is here to shout, make the buzz, express a radicalism. It may satisfy some but it’s 10 to 15%. Marine Le Pen wants to be President of the French Republic” declares Laurent Jacobelli. pic.twitter.com/X7q9JMhYq7
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Laurent Jacobelli also returned to the difficulties of Marine Le Pen to garner the 500 sponsorships of elected officials essential to be a presidential candidate. “We don’t know if we will have them” by the March 4 deadline, he said. For him, “today the system is completely locked, mayors are sometimes under the influence of local barons who ask them not to sponsor certain candidates or to sponsor certain others”.
Sponsorships and F. Bayrou’s idea of a “sponsorship bank” ➡️ “We are not used to being saved by others. We accept all sponsorships. This is not support, it is a moment of selection”, is “saying Marine Le Pen is legitimate to be a candidate.” pic.twitter.com/MpAjxNjDNY
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So he throws “a call to the mayors”. “Nothing will happen to you if you sponsor Marine Le Pen, no threat to subsidies, it’s completely illegal”, he assured. According to him, these elected “must now play the game of democracy” and “Allow the first candidate who opposes Emmanuel Macron to be a candidate, because otherwise our country will be in permanent democratic danger”.