Marine Le Pen, RN candidate in the presidential election, estimated Friday in Brussels that the controversial and potential candidate Eric Zemmour had "no chance of reaching the second round" while a new poll puts them at the elbow-to -elbow.
“I am telling you this out of conviction and experience.
Because the choice he makes is the choice of provocation, the choice he makes is to put aside, even if it means despising it, a large category of French ", declared Marine Le Pen, while a new poll puts it in a pocket square with the former Figaro journalist to qualify for the second round in April 2022.
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Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour both collect around 16% of voting intentions, behind Emmanuel Macron, indicates an Ipsos poll published on Friday.
Eric Zemmour "declared that only the popular categories voted for me, a ghetto of workers and the unemployed," noted Marine Le Pen, who came to Brussels to meet, among others, the head of the Polish government, Mateusz Morawiecki, on the sidelines of 'a summit of the Twenty-Seven.
"Permanent buzz"
"You have to be the president of all French people, whatever their social categories, their origins, their religions, their political opinions", underlined the candidate, estimating that only the bourgeoisie was the "electoral target" of her rival who does not has not yet officially declared itself in the Elysee race.
Marine Le Pen recalled having been appointed at the head of her political family to put an end to "provocations" and "to" tear her away from this intoxication of groupusculization "in a cryptic reference to the National Front at the time of Jean-Marie Le Pen, his father.
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"The permanent buzz" can "arouse interest for a while but basically I think that the French are waiting for a real break".
She said she was carrying this "rupture" in the field of immigration "but not only", also in the economic, social and international relations fields.