His announcement was expected.
It still elicited many reactions.
This Tuesday, November 30, in a video posted on social networks, Eric Zemmour formalized his candidacy for the presidential election of 2022. "
I decided to take our destiny in hand
", launched the nationalist in a message resuming the codes of General de Gaulle during the call on June 18.
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An official entry into the campaign with great commentary from the political class. On the right, several personalities have not failed to criticize the subject as the staging. “
There are now two far-right presidential candidates, Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen. The right, even uninhibited, it will never be the extreme right. No alliance or compromise will ever be either possible or acceptable,
”for example tweeted Jean-François Cope, former president of the UMP and current LR mayor of Meaux. "
The future president must reconcile the French and not seek to fracture them,
" reacted Damien Abad, the boss of LR deputies to the National Assembly.
"
I refuse to canonize Eric Zemmour and demonize him
", for his part defended the deputy LR Julien Aubert.
For the elected representative of Vaucluse, Eric Zemmour's announcement was, however, “
considered in relation to the candidacy of the right
”.
On the eve of the start of the Congress of Republicans, where LR must nominate his candidate from among five contenders, the essayist did not fail to scratch Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse and Michel Barnier, just like the socialist Anne Hidalgo, the environmentalist Yannick Jadot and President Emmanuel Macron.
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A "
backward-looking and twilight
" statement
On the side of the National Rally, several personalities also reacted. Asked about BFMTV, Marine Le Pen, presidential candidate, judged Eric Zemmour's statement "
backward-looking and twilight
". An opinion shared by Sébastien Chenu, his spokesperson. “
It is not clear what solutions he will bring (...). It is not a candidate of hope, who will repair and straighten the country
", he reacted, judging the video of candidacy of the polemicist"
lugubrious
"and"
very nostalgic
".
For MEP Gilbert Collard, the "
call
" Eric Zemmour is a "
Gaullist appeal
."
"
By criticizing all the candidates except Marine Le Pen, he opens up to a process of reconciliation of the patriots that I have always defended,
" he wrote on Twitter.
"
De Gaulle's microphone but Pétain's speech
"
On the side of the presidential majority, the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, cracked an attack against the polemicist. Asked about Europe 1 this Tuesday morning on the candidacy of the author of
France has not said its last word
(Ed. Rubempré), Gabriel Attal judged that this one
"sold us that he was the French Trump "
Whereas he is in fact, according to him,"
a Trump ordered on Wish
(merchant site facilitating transactions between sellers, note) ".
On the left, the reactions were less numerous.
For the PS deputy and spokesperson for Anne Hidalgo in the presidential election Boris Vallaud, the nationalist candidate is "
a louse which stands on the head of a giant, mimicking the call of General de Gaulle
".
Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, for his part considered that France “does
not deserve this sinister staging
”.
“
De Gaulle's microphone but Pétain's speech.
The Pompidou library but the letters of Renaud Camus.
Beethoven's music but the false notes of a fantasized past for a caricatured present
, ”he cracked.