“There will be others, it will be the National Gathering nest of spies!”said Gilbert Collard, honorary president and spokesperson for Reconquête!, the party of Éric Zemmour, since his departure from the National Rally, in the program “Les informed” on franceinfo, Tuesday, February 15.
Nicolas Bay, spokesperson for Marine Le Pen’s campaign, has been suspended from his role in the National Rally for “sabotage” because he is accused of having provided information to Eric Zemmour’s party on the campaign of Marine The pen. “We no longer have James Bond, we now have James Bayquips Gilbert Collard. This is the latest discovery of the National Rally: I hope they will not sink into the Havana syndrome which makes the noise of crickets or super-powerful ultrasounds heard. For the honorary president of Reconquête!, this accusation “takes on hallucinating proportions” in view of the long political career of Nicolas Bay at the National Rally for 30 years.
“To accuse her of being the Matahari of the National Rally is to overstate the point a bit.”
Gilbert Collard, honorary president and spokesperson for Reconquête!at franceinfo
Although Gilbert Collard does not deny that there were contacts between Nicolas Bay and Reconquête, he affirms that he “there was no information” because “there is nothing strategic to transmit to the National Rally because there is no strategy […] When you leave a meeting of the National Rally, what is said inside is known outside in the minute. So for Gilbert Collard, accusing Nicolas Bay of being a spy, “It’s very mean, it’s a serious accusation.” The rallying of Nicolas Bay towards Zemmour seems inevitable: “It is quite obvious that the National Rally is pretending to chase away someone who has left, to save honor”accuses Gilbert Collard. “It’s a bit of Labiche: I don’t want to be cuckolded so I leave my wife.” And according to him, this departure from the RN to Reconquest will not be the only one: “There will be others, it will be the National Gathering nest of spies!”
For him, the executives of the National Rally must ask themselves questions: “Why do people who have devoted themselves leave with a bad heart? I do not want to put anyone on trial, but Nicolas Bay has 30 years of dedication to his credit. If he leaves, it is because there are many substantive reasons.” And reasons, Gilbert Collard sees several, in particular related to the president of the National Rally Marine Le Pen: “It’s an atmosphere, it’s a climate, it’s an atmosphere, it’s rivalries, it’s malice, it’s ideological crises that aren’t settled, it’s a demand for Marine’s admiration. in conditions that are not acceptable to people like me or Nicolas, we weren’t trained for that.”
The arrival of Eric Zemmour in the political landscape would have “renewed the desire to do politics.” Gilbert Collard nevertheless offers advice to Marine Le Pen: “I would tell her not to trample on those who allowed her to be at the small level where she is, because Nicolas Bay was one of those who helped her a lot, who worked a lot for her, so you have to have a certain greatness all the same.”