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Presidential 2022: the right embarrassed after Ciotti's remarks on Zemmour

2021-09-06T07:09:54.376Z


The right-wing primary candidate said on Sunday that in the event of a Macron - Zemmour second round, he would vote for the latter.


Eric Zemmour is not (yet?) Among the declared candidates, but the hypothesis is already agitating the troops.

During the RTL-

Le Figaro

-LCI

Grand Jury

on Sunday, the candidate for the right-wing primary, Éric Ciotti, declared that in the event of a second round (for the time being fictional) between Emmanuel Macron and the polemicist writer, the deputy for Alpes-Maritimes would vote in the second.

Asked about this statement this morning, several figures on the right tried to brush up on the subject.

Read also Eric Ciotti announces his candidacy for the primary of the right

"

This is really not the question of the moment,

" said Christian Jacob. Invited on RTL, the party leader tried to distract attention. “

We are coming out of a great weekend with the young people. (...) A great youth movement was born yesterday,

”he assured, the day after the Young Republicans returned to the Parc Floral in Paris. Asked to express himself on the words of Eric Ciotti, the president finally felt that the latter had “

convictions

” of which he “

expressed

”. And to reiterate that “

talking about a candidate of whom we do not know if he will be a candidate, this is not the subject of the moment.

"

"

I had rather the feeling that the subjects of concern of the French were purchasing power, safety, health, and not this or that media candidate,

" he insisted.

While emphasizing that Eric Zemmour is however "

absolutely not

" infrequent.

"Who are we talking about?"

At the same time, Valérie Pécresse, in contention for the primary, delivered a laconic statement on France 2. “

Éric Zemmour is very clear: I say that to govern France, you have to think of something else than immigration,

”she lambasted.

Before bouncing back: “

I think we're going to be in the second round.

"

Read also Valérie Pécresse wants to move up a gear

"

Who are we talking about?"

“, Asked Michel Barnier again.

Also a candidate for a tie-breaker, the former Brexit negotiator spoke on France Info “

a columnist, a polemic journalist who is not even a candidate for the moment.

""

You are talking about hypotheses, theoretical questions, I am not here this morning to comment on the comments and the hypothetical candidacy of Mr. Zemmour.

It does not interest me.

We don't have the same ideas,

”he said.

Read also Michel Barnier criticizes the "vertical and arrogant" exercise of power by Emmanuel Macron

Faced with Eric Ciotti, the pretender at the Élysée Palace also stressed that they could have “

different ideas

”. “

In this political family, there have always been (...) people who are very right-wing, others who are much less so. Our political family wins and I think she will win when she looks like France,

”he said.

Finally another candidate for the primary, Philippe Juvin has "had

enough of these discussions where you are told that you have to choose between Macron and Zemmour

". "

Eric Zemmour speaks of theses that the right has developed at length, but I believe that to be elected President of the Republic, you must first have been elected

", argued the mayor of La Garenne-Colombes (Hauts-de- Seine). "

Nobody sows discord

,

"

he lost his temper

again.

We must stop saying that when we do not agree, it is discord. (...) It is rather a source of wealth.

"

Source: lefigaro

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