It was a face-to-face meeting as much as expected and unexpected.
Guest of Cyril Hanouna on C8 for his new show,
Face à Baba
, Éric Zemmour was in front of the presenter and several guests such as the journalist and anti-species activist Aymeric Caron or the Minister Delegate in charge of equality between Women and Men Elisabeth Moreno .
For two hours, the candidate had to respond more to his old statements than to detail point by point his presidential project.
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Composing a government is easy"
Faced with questions from the presenter, Eric Zemmour once again played his part, quickly advocating a policy of assimilation.
If he specified that he had "
nothing against Muslims
", he explained that he had people of this religion in his campaign team.
For him precisely,
"composing a government is easy".
S open
criticized for his lack of heavyweights and structured teams, Eric Zemmour says: once elected,
"there is enough to form several governments"
in the political trend in which he finds himself: Gaullo-Bonapartist.
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Asked by Mathieu Kassovitz in video on their common Jewish origins and on the promotion of the diversity of the actor, Eric Zemmour defended
“our ancestors the Gauls”
.
"For France to remain France, all the waves of immigration must permeate this French culture steeped in Christianity and Greco-Roman culture
", pointed out the former essayist who returned to his childhood in France in the 1960s to justify its assimilationist policy.
Faced with Aymeric Caron, Eric Zemmour had to defend himself against accusations of racism launched by the columnist. In a heated debate, the discussion quickly turned into a dialogue of the deaf. Resuming his comparison between Islam and Communism, the candidate reiterated his desire to "
defend his culture
" without believing that it is above others. On the subject of immigration and unaccompanied minors, the game started in an obscure and muddled battle of numbers. "
Immigration has been bad luck for France for years
", even launched the polemicist who ends on a last spike against the veganism of the columnist: "
Mr. Caron has tenderness for mosquitoes, I have tenderness for the French people.
"
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The former polemicist was also confronted with his friend chronicler Éric Naulleau, positioned on the left on the political spectrum and who has suffered a wave of criticism since he went to his meeting in Villepinte without political support.
The two men reciprocally paid tribute to their mutual friendship which began in the 2000s when they were columnists at Laurent Ruquier.
"If Mr. Macron is re-elected, there will be surrogacy", says Zemmour
After having confronted Bruno Le Maire last week, Éric Zemmour opposed a new member of the government: Elisabeth Moreno. On the issue of women's rights, the former polemicist defended himself against criticism of his misogyny and his opposition to parity. According to him, women
“can take all roles, all functions, all trades (...) they
have an intelligence quite equal to that of men and therefore can take the same trades as men.
"Attacked on his ideology and his writings on these questions, Éric Zemmour decided:
" If feminism is equality between men and women, I am a feminist, if feminism is indifferentiation, so I'm not a feminist. ”
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The two personalities finally clashed on the issues of transgender people and assisted reproduction for all.
"
If Mr. Macron is re-elected, there will be surrogacy,
" pretended to predict Eric Zemmour.
The two personalities then crossed swords on the MeToo movement.
If Éric Zemmour wanted to divert the debate towards the Islamization of society and its consequences on women, the minister referred to the murders of women in rural areas.
With his campaign launch at the end of November, his great show of force in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis) on December 5 and his strong media presence for a few days, Éric Zemmour tried to regain control of a month of November marked by several controversies, a complicated trip to Marseille and a halt in its dynamics in the polls.
In the latest Harris Interactive survey for Challenges, the Reconquest candidate reached 15% of vote intentions, just behind Marine Le Pen (16%).
