At 68, Robert Ménard refuses to be a “old jerk”. He likes to be surprised and, even more, to confuse. This evening of May 10, it is Marine Le Pen who is perplexed. “Robert, are you in favor of an alliance with Macron? », writes to him, by text message, the representative of the National Rally (RN). The mayor of Béziers (Hérault) is annoyed. “People think you’re made from one piece,” he will blow later, at the end of May, in a Parisian brasserie near the National Assembly.
The only important elected official not affiliated with the RN to have called to vote for the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the first round has caused trouble by signing a platform in Le Figaroentitled “A majority for Macron, a lesser evil against Mélenchon”. “Let’s support the Head of State when he takes courageous decisions, let’s criticize him when he takes harmful ones. It is in the interest of our nation.” he writes, to counter the New Popular Ecologist and Social Union led by the leader of the radical left. Is. But the nationalist camp chokes to read: “We also don’t want a country run by these cheap patriots who fantasize about Putin or Pétain. Because this candied right of nostalgia is a foil that has no chance of winning a majority of votes one day. An ideological impasse. A political disaster. » A direct charge against Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour.
This May 10, here it is, therefore, which rounds off the angles. HAS « Marine », he replies that he called to vote for her despite their disagreements: “But I do not confuse Mélenchon and Macron. I imagine you don’t either. » Marine Le Pen takes note of a « O.-K. » lapidary. She will not call him again, but the mayor has appeased his ally’s suppressed anger in extremis. In the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, the RN does not present a candidate against Emmanuelle Ménard, his wife, whom he loves “madly”. The member of the 6e constituency of Hérault, elected in 2017, will face a Renaissance candidate (ex-La République en Marche), invested on May 7.
“The Mask Falls”
What does Robert Ménard play? The sexagenarian, native of Oran, son of an OAS militant, flirts with power. Too much, we believe in Béziers, where we mock the elected official who, like others, fell under the spell of Emmanuel Macron. At the town hall, his majority is in turmoil. Four advisers have slammed the door since the beginning of the year, including one, Victor Alzingre, the day after this platform experienced as infamy. “Robert Ménard calls for joining all those who, for forty-five or fifty years, have been destroying France, those against whom he said he opposed until 2020-2021. There, the mask falls! »is offended, in free lunch, the young municipal elected official, by describing the Ménard couple as “a deception”.
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