Presidential Election 2022: backstage of Florian Philippot support in Nicolas Dupont-aignan

The former Marine Le Pen arm rallies the sovereignist candidate, hoping to elect deputies and acquire financial autonomy.

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Nicolas Dupont-Aignan grabbed his pen, Monday, March 14, at the headquarters of his party, and signs the agreement in front of the cameras, came to attend the support of Florian Philippot. “It’s me who make commitments,” he says to his new acolyte. Mine are lasting, the people are for six weeks. “Philippot corrects it:” Six weeks … more the legislative! “. The leader of the patriots, who gave up the presidential election after having harvested only one and only sponsorship, recalled five times, at this common press conference, which he supports the head of standing France To “continue the legislative”.

It had to bring this “deal” to bring together the two sovereignists as at the time of the between 2017, that one and the other prefer to forget. Florian Philippot, at the time arms right of Marine Le Pen, had negotiated the ephemeral alliance with Dupont-Aignan who weighed 4.70% of the vote, nearly 2 million voices. Both subscribe today to the “financial attachment of candidates for their respective parties”, which figure black on white in their contract, even if Dupont-aignan prefers to say that he “believes in destiny” to talk about their reunion.

The head of the patriots had asked as a condition of “political and financial independence” allowing him to receive public subsidies without depending on the principal party – since his candidates for the legislative will have obtained at least 1% of the votes cast in at least 1% 50 constituencies. The two acolytes will share the 577 candidatures for “moist-moist”, promises Dupont-aignan. The autonomous perception of public aid then opens the way to future elected representatives, each member or senator “reporting” € 37,000 per year. A manna to which Philippot, devoid of public funding today, held to take flight.

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Former number two of the National Front had not first hidden his desire to support Eric Zemmour. During an internal consultation, 13,000 of its members voted for the reconquest candidate! at 40%, then Dupont-aignan at 28%. “It was before the war in Ukraine,” said Philippot, who, however, formulated his requests during an appointment, early March, at the home of Eric Zemmour and his companion and strategic director, Sarah Knafo. The far-right candidate did not follow “None” of them. “With NES [Nicolas Dupont-aignan], it’s easier,” says Philippot.

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