The answer was not long in coming.
A few hours after Marine Le Pen at Jean-Jacques Bourdin, the Reconquest candidate was the guest of the show
Face à BFM.
The opportunity to respond to the accusation of the nationalist contender who had stipulated on the same channel, Wednesday morning, that Eric Zemmour served
"as a stepping stone to allow Valérie Pécresse to be in the second round"
against the President of the Republic .
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The candidate who does not want "
to get into political schemes
" indicates that "
we always lend to others our own turpitudes
".
In other words, Marine Le Pen would be accustomed to the fact.
In a political and poll duel with the RN candidate since September, Eric Zemmour considers “
having no lessons to receive
”.
"
It's still because of her and her calamitous debate that we had five years of Emmanuel Macron, it was also because of her - because she had refused to call to vote for Nicolas Sarkozy - that we had François Hollande
”, he shouts.
The "Arlette Laguiller of the national right"
Pretending to wonder, the former polemicist ironically wonders "
why she does not want to debate with
(him)?" Before explaining that Marine Le Pen's candidacy is "
a routine candidacy
": "
She was there the last time, she was there the penultimate time, she will be there next time ... I have a touched thought for the voters of the National Rally.
"The nationalist contender finally delivers the most brutal blow in the form of a question:"
Are they
(the RN voters, Editor's note)
ready to lose with Marine Le Pen in 2032?
"According to him, the deputy of Pas-de-Calais is"
a little bit our Arlette Laguiller of the national right.
"
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Éric Zemmour then developed the tactical reasons that prompted him to come forward.
“
I am committed to doing what neither Valérie Pécresse nor Marine Le Pen can do, that is to say, the union of the rights.
Marine Le Pen cannot do it because no LR voter is ready to vote for her and Valérie Pécresse does not want to do it because she is trapped by the old moons of the sanitary cordon invented by François Mitterrand there is thirty-five years old
, ”analyzes the candidate overtaken by the former political analyst.
While Marine Le Pen keeps repeating that the candidacy of Eric Zemmour fractures the national camp and scatter his votes, the neo-candidate, he welcomes the abundance of suitors, which "
widens the spectrum
". All this, taking the example of the Chirac-Balladur clash in 1995 - and the election of Jacques Chirac that followed - and of the configuration of 1981 where five left-wing candidates were present - which did not prevent François Mitterrand to access the Élysée.
In the latest Ifop-Fiducial poll for
Paris Match, LCI
and
Sud Radio,
published Wednesday, Éric Zemmour climbs to 13.5% of voice intentions when Marine Le Pen stabilizes at 16.5%, tied with Valérie Pécresse.
While the President of the Republic remains well ahead, with 27%, the match of the right to reach the second round has indeed started.
