Exclusive: Right-Wing Alliance Gives the French an Opposition to Macron They Deserve, Says MEP

Member of the European Parliament Nicolas Bay, a vice president of Eric Zemmour’s 

party Reconquest, has called a right-wing party alliance essential going into the 

French parliamentary elections in order to have a real opposition to President 

Emmanuel Macron.

Mr Bay is among the three vice presidents of Reconquest who have pushed for a 

united right-wing alliance ahead of June’s French legislative elections, along with 

Marine Le Pen’s niece Marion Marechal.

Speaking to Breitbart London, Bay explained the proposal to unite the right, saying, 

“A coalition of the patriotic right is essential if we want to give the French people

 the representation they deserve and especially a real opposition to 

Emmanuel Macron. This does not mean that we have to merge into a single party: 

we will each keep our specificities.”

Bay stated that an alliance could form with Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, members 

of Gaullist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan’s movement as well as members so the centre-right 

Les Republicains who did not want to become partners of President Macron.

“According to a recent poll, 74% of RN voters and 94% of Reconquête voters want 

such an agreement. The national bloc represents 12.5 million votes, far ahead of the 

8.1 million obtained by the RN alone,” Bay said, citing figures put forward earlier 

this week by Eric Zemmour.

“If we add up our results from the first round, the patriotic right came out on top in 

246 constituencies. The RN alone came out on top in only 100 constituencies. Together, 

we could have 145 MPs. But if we are divided, there will only be a handful of MPs 

elected to the National Assembly. The left-wing parties and the Macronist centre 

manage to unite: why not us?” he said.

Until February of this year, Bay was a vice president of Marine Le Pen’s National 

Rally (RN) but defected to Zemmour’s Reconquest after allegations had been made 

that Bay had passed on information to the Zenmour campaign. Bay denied the 

accusations, calling them “grotesque and crude.”

It is unclear how many seats Reconquest would win without an alliance, but this week 

Le Pen’s National Rally stated it would not run candidates in four seats being contested 

by Reoncquest candidates, including that of Reconquest vice president Guillaume 

Peltier, a former high-ranking member of Les Republicains.

Bay told Breitbart he was confident his party would gain seats in the French parliament, 

saying: “We have well-known personalities, favourable constituencies, activist teams 

that are both numerous and motivated, a programme that has been able to seduce a 

diverse electorate, from the RN as well as LR, and that includes both well-off and 

working-class categories of French people… Yes, we can get a lot of MPs elected, 

but only if we build a coalition as our opponents know how to do.”

So far, members so the National Rally have rejected the idea of a formal alliance of 

conservative and populist parties, with Louis Aliot, RN mayor of Perpignan, stating 

that Zemmour should be “more humble” after winning seven per cent of the vote in 

the first round of the presidential elections.

MEP: Right-Wing Bloc Gives French Opposition to Macron They Deserve (breitbart.com)