Track the inconsistencies of the different candidates.
This is the objective of La République en Marche which, according to RTL and France Inter, has created a response unit to verify the statements of each potential opponent of Emmanuel Macron in view of the presidential election of 2022. The majority would make files on each of the contenders for the Élysée, from Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Éric Zemmour, with what each one declares today, but also, what he declared yesterday.
To discover
Presidential 2022: where are the candidates in the polls?
The goal, as an LREM executive confirmed in
Le Figaro
, would be to provide arguments for the Walkers to be right on target when they attack the opposition in the media.
The candidates will not all be housed in the same boat: Anne Hidalgo should for example be relatively spared, unlike Eric Zemmour, who will be more targeted.
The archive closet would also already be running at full speed for the essayist: the Macronists would dissect his passages in the show "We are not lying", in which he was a columnist between 2006 and 2011. "
All his past statements here or there are peeled
”, specifies RTL.
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Nicolas Sarkozy had also set up this type of cell
This type of cell, aimed at responding to attacks from adversaries, was designed and inaugurated ten years ago.
In 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy had already tried it: at the time, the outgoing president wanted to "
hit back
" to his main opponent for the presidential election, the socialist candidate François Hollande.
Headed by Brice Hortefeux, this cell of about twenty people was intended to "
dismantle
" the initiatives, declarations and attacks of the tenors of the PS.
"
We do three things: we examine the expectations of the French, we explain the policy of the President of the Republic, and thirdly, we put the magnifying glass on the truth of the socialist candidate
", then explained Brice Hortefeux on Europe 1.