There are the very direct attacks. And there are the more implicit messages. In his declaration of candidacy for the presidential election, published this Tuesday on social networks, Eric Zemmour scratches all his future opponents of 2022, whether they are declared or not. “
I understood that no politician would have the courage to save the country from the tragic fate that awaited him. I understood that all these supposedly competent were above all powerless,
”asserts the nationalist, while images of Xavier Bertrand (LR), Valérie Pécresse (LR), Michel Barnier (LR), Anne Hidalgo ( PS), and Yannick Jadot (EELV). Emmanuel Macron, "
who presented himself as a new man
" in 2017, is also directly targeted, accused ofto be "
in truth the synthesis of his two predecessors
(François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, editor's note)
and worse
”.
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So much for those who are blacklisted. But this succession of faces and names makes it possible to better bring out those who do not appear there - probably on purpose -, and who are three in number: Éric Ciotti (LR), Marine Le Pen (RN), and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI). The first, who seeks the investiture of the right within the framework of the Congress, is one of the few within his political family to spare the polemicist, even to claim certain convergences of view with him. The second, finalist from five years ago, remains today the main competitor of the essayist: both in the polls, where she resists better than expected and still appears capable of qualifying for the second round; but also on the electoral level, where she disputes the vote of the popular classes ...Just like the Insubordinate, moreover, whose social program and Euroscepticism regularly place him at the center of the attention of the nationalist camp, even of a part of the extreme right.
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These signals, which Eric Zemmour sends indirectly to these various candidates, aim to enable him to prepare the ground for possible bridges - and hypothetical alliances - that he could be led to build in the future. Supported by a solid base of activists and sympathizers, which has created the momentum he has known since the start of the school year, the candidate has suffered to date from not having recorded the slightest rallying of any political heavyweight. A time seduced, the former sovereignist minister Philippe de Villiers has indeed announced that he would ultimately not participate in the big meeting scheduled for this Sunday at the Zénith in Paris. As for Jean-Frédéric Poisson (“VIA”; ex-Christian Democratic Party), who said he was “
ready to erase
»His candidacy, he has taken a slight distance in recent days.
Finally, the mayor of Béziers (Hérault), Robert Ménard, has recently worked with Marine Le Pen, whom he considers to be "
the best placed
" for 2022.
