He wants to be the voice of the people.
This is what would guide his choice towards the Latin expression “Vox populi” - literally, the voice of the people - for his campaign slogan.
Columnist Eric Zemmour would indeed prepare a candidacy for the 2022 presidential election, according to a survey published this Thursday by Paris Match.
For now, no official date is filtering, but "some relatives suggest, boldly, November 11", indicates the weekly.
The beginnings of the campaign are discreet, but existing.
"A printer was approached three weeks ago" in the person of Gilbert Caron, boss of Roto Presse Numéris, author of campaign posters and leaflets for Nicolas Sarkozy in 2002 and 2007, Match said.
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The support of Eric Zemmour, too, is gradually coming out of the woods.
Paris Match mentions in particular the former boss of Elf and the SNCF Loïk Le Floch-Prigent, 77, who "writes notes for him and provides intensive lessons during one-to-one lunches" to fill in the gaps in the economy of the candidate not yet declared.
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Other supporters like Charles Gave, who presents himself as "an intellectual of finance, who left for London in 1981 not to live under Communist ministers", lend him a hand.
Zemmour's campaign “will not cost much,” he predicts.
"We will launch a YouTube channel from Russia and we will get rid of the leeches, the bandits, this high civil service," Gave told Paris Match.
Pre-existing political apparatuses could come to support Eric Zemmour.
This is the case in particular with the modest Christian Democratic Party of Jean-Frédéric Poisson, founded by Christine Boutin, according to Paris Match.
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On the sidelines of this preparation, more anecdotal questions of stature germinate here and there.
"He does not yet wear the heels that some recommend him", points out Paris Match, but "the man who dreams of presiding over the Republic" seems ready, and whatever the opinion of his relatives.
Isabelle Balkany, who presents herself as her "big sister", on the other hand urges her not to get started.
“He doesn't know anything about work, sludge” politician, she believes.