He came to revitalize his troops.
Before plunging back into the uproar of the start of the school year.
In a modern gallery in the Marais, in the heart of Paris, Éric Zemmour made an appointment, this Tuesday evening, to his first quarter of faithful.
The opportunity to reserve the first of his wishes for them.
And thank them for the road already traveled.
A full campaign team, the most involved volunteers and activists, in all some 600 people with varying masks, fill the large, two-story loft-like space.
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Leaning against the walls lit with blue white red spotlights, thirty-something in suits and more relaxed fifties are discussing the polls, the balance of power and Covid at the same time. The ally, head of Via (ex PCD), Jean-Frédéric Poisson is there. General Bertrand de la Chesnais, bombed campaign director in December, too. While businessman Pierre-Jean Chalençon is working together to secure a place at the forefront.
"We can clearly see that a kind of square head has formed in the voting intentions, the difference between them is not considerable and the campaign begins now, in January",
convinced himself Jean-Paul Bolufer, the leader. office of the candidate
.
Before everyone is surprised by the unusual punctuality of their champion.
"I hope you were able to take advantage of these family meals to slip a few words on our commitment, between foie gras and dessert"
, attack on the tone of the joke from the platform Éric Zemmour. Before ironing about her tanned complexion: “
You can tell from my face, I took a few days of vacation myself. It was, you know, my last vacation. For five years we will convince and then save France. ”
Three months before the supreme election, the nationalist candidate knows he is at a particular time. The breath that carried him after the summer has fallen. If his progress is blunted, the candidate does not record a marked decline.
"It will be difficult and demanding, but victory is within reach",
he thunders.
"What a road traveled"
To regain momentum, Éric Zemmour invites his troops to look at the past year:
“What a path we have traveled for a year.
Entering the Élysée was then for me, I admit, a somewhat crazy project, a little distant […] In June, all those who have been in politics for 1000 years dissuaded me from going there.
All these great professionals believed that we would never exceed 3% in the polls.
However, since September, it is we who have written the history of this election.
It is we who have imposed our themes and who have often been copied. ”
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A satisfecit especially intended, this Tuesday evening, to its activists and volunteers.
"Soon we'll be joined by others, but I'll never forget you were the first,"
coaxes the candidate while greeting his young 'Generation Z' supporters.
For your numbers, for your work, for your enthusiasm, for your ardor in convincing each of our compatriots. I want to say thank you! ”
Not a word about the coronavirus is said. If not to accuse Emmanuel Macron of instrumentalizing in order to
"steal the election".
Knowing that nothing better than pointing an opponent mobilizes, the former journalist chose as a conclusion his target: the press.
“Our success drives them crazy.
They are going to come after me and they are going to come after you too.
They will never attack your ideas, they know the French share them.
They will try to smear your people.
I know something about it, that's what I've been going through for 20 years, ”he
blurted out before being answered
“ Not even scared ”
by a woman in the room
.
