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Presidential 2022: in Lille, Éric Zemmour dreams of being “president of class reconciliation” and targets popular categories

2/5/2022, 7:55:56 PM


By focusing his speech on purchasing power and work, the Reconquest candidate wanted to address primarily an electorate for which Marine Le Pen still has the upper hand in the polls.

The costume has changed, but not his message.

The last time he came to Lille (Nord) on October 2, 2021, Éric Zemmour had not yet put on his clothes as a pretender to the Élysée.

Not explicitly anyway.

At the time, the former polemicist was officially on a literary tour.

Unofficially in pre-campaign.

Four months later, it is clear that the attentive and quiet audience has turned into militant troops, ardently beating the countryside.

That the timorous question-and-answer sessions at a conference on the economy have turned into great electoral masses.

And that his previous

"crossroads" -

name of his warm-up lap this fall - has turned into "

Reconquest

".

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