His passage will ultimately have been short-lived. Jean Messiha, former RN who became spokesperson for Eric Zemmour’s campaign, announced on Thursday on CNews that he was leaving the Reconquest party.
“I am more useful for the ideas of the national camp elsewhere,” he said on the set of Jean-Marc Morandini. “With the campaign over, I am resuming my previous activities,” he added. “Eric Zemmour kindled hope, it was a great adventure” but “I want to resume my media, intellectual activity” in his Apollon think tank, he added.
“Everyone has their reasons” for leaving
Before him Antoine Diers, former spokesperson for “Reconquest! and Deputy Director of Strategy, left the party shortly after the first round where Éric Zemmour won 7.07% of the vote. “People leave, each for their own reasons”, commented Jean Messiha, assuring that Éric Zemmour “will remain a friend”.
Jean Messiha, 51, former delegate for RN Studies, left this party in November 2020 accusing him of refusing any “current” within it. This regular on CNews sets had joined Éric Zemmour at the end of 2021. He is not the only one to have made such a transfer: Marion Maréchal, the niece of Marine Le Pen, announced, in March, her official support for the polemicist for the presidential. Last week, she announced that she was becoming executive vice-president of the Reconquest movement.