Reconquest! wants to play the national, liberal and conservative card

Nicolas Bay gives a press conference in Tarascon, in the south of France, on May 20, 2022. NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP

Nicolas Bay now watches them from afar, his former frontist comrades. Yet it was with them that he initially shared the benches of the European Parliament, before join the ranks of Éric Zemmour during the presidential campaign. Today, he is one of the non-registered, and has almost no contact with them.

Even with his campaign comrades, like Jérôme Rivière, who also bet on the candidate Reconquête!, relations are broken. Like Jordan Bardella, Nicolas Bay now serves as an emissary for his party to try to forge alliances with potential European allies. Because for Reconquête!, the European elections represent the only political prospect after a year which came close to crossing the desert, for lack of elected members in the embly and of an electoral campaign. At the party, the subject has therefore occupied a large part of unofficial discussions for several months.

Ringardiser the frontist speech

With this central question: is there a space for Reconquest? The training intends to capitalize…