It drags its dark circles and its wave to the soul on all levels.
After France 2 on Saturday evening, before BFM, tomorrow Wednesday, Eric Zemmour was this Tuesday morning on RTL to first discuss the suspension of his participation in “Face à l'Info”, CNews daily evening.
The CSA estimated that this debate should be counted in the speaking time of the future presidential candidate.
A status that Zemmour cherishes, having even started the hunt for sponsorships, but that he especially does not want to start too early.
“I have always championed ideas. It's called politics. All journalists, in any case from a certain level, defend ideas and engage in politics, ”argues the polemicist, as if picked up in the red armchair of RTL. If the audiovisual policeman punishes him for this, he should look, he still attacks, on "all the shows of France Inter in the morning".
As for his withdrawal from Figaro and Figaro Magazine, he explains it, in a cryptic way, by a conversation with the editorial director of the title. “I have never withdrawn from Figaro, I spoke with Alexis Brézet who told me
the society of journalists is obsessed with you, I have them all the time on my back
… During the week, I had the program from CNews, I naively believed, I had weekends left to promote "his new book" and go see the people, the French. " "France has not said its last word" was self-published (*) after the essayist consecrated his divorce by mutual consent with Albin Michel, embarrassed to launch a book of candidate who does not say his name.
This Tuesday, Zemmour assumed to play with the ambiguity of suspense.
"I can make this last as long as it is in my best interests," he even remarked.
"I am not a professional of politics, (nor) of the presidential candidacy, I do not do that to generously support a party and its supporters, he continued.
One day I will come, I will say.
It is I who choose the moment ”.
💬 Eric Zemmour candidate?
"I can make the ambiguity last as long as it's my interest", @ZemmourEric in #RTLMatin with @VenturaAlba pic.twitter.com/qWtOui3L8o
- RTL France (@RTLFrance) September 14, 2021
Zemmour then rejoiced to have imposed his "question".
"Whoever wins the presidential election is the one who imposes his question, and who has his answer," he said.
And to quote "Chirac and the social fracture", "Sarkozy with the Ministry of National Identity and work more to earn more".
“I think the fundamental question that torments the French is immigration and Islam.
As a candidate or not, I have already succeeded: the question has already been asked, that of the change of people, ”he believes.
Marine Le Pen's reaction
And to add: "Since there is a rumor on my candidacy, everyone starts to speak like me", Valérie Pécresse, "Mr. Barnier", and "Madame Le Pen, who claimed that she was afraid of 'to be associated with me because I was too radical "and" now take my words in his last speech ".
The president of the National Rally, who stepped back from the party on Saturday to broaden her audience for the presidential election, welcomed CNews' decision a few minutes later. "You cannot at the same time be a candidate and at the same time be a columnist because that breaks a form of balance which is also a pledge of democracy", she underlined on Europe 1. "The question is not to know if Eric Zemmour has the right to speak, he speaks a lot and of course we are delighted; the question is about the candidate's status. When we print posters with President Zemmour and we are looking for sponsorship in the presidential election, we are a candidate, ”she summed up while the columnist's candidacy could take her votes.
Marine Le Pen on Eric Zemmour: "When you print and glue 'Zemmour president' posters and look for sponsorships, then you are a candidate (...) You cannot be a candidate and a columnist at the same time. "# Europe1 pic.twitter.com/BjoG3crU8T
- Europe 1 🎧🌍📻 (@ Europe1) September 14, 2021
"I would like us to talk about it less and wait to know if he is a candidate, if he wishes, and that he makes proposals to us", for his part criticized on France 2 the boss of LREM deputies Christophe Castaner.
According to him, "it is a media object which is hiding behind a media campaign for the moment".
(*)
The book will be officially released in two days at Rubempré, an “artistic” house founded by Zemmour in 2008, whose trademark was registered at the end of July. Rubempré refers to Balzac's Comédie humaine, to the character of Lucien de Rubempré, "a great provincial man temporarily lost in the press", according to the writer Jean Lacouture.
