Under a big blue sky, a black cloud of cameras, microphones and onlookers... Right in the middle, Éric Zemmour, can barely guess the ocher colors of the covered market in Cannes this Saturday.
At the rate of a few steps per minute, the candidate gives in, all smiles, to the requests for selfies that reckless onlookers offer him after having crossed the pack of fifty journalists.
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"Thank you Mr. Zemmour, don't give up! “,
encourages a man in his sixties to the essayist surrounded by his two fresh recruits: the ex LR Guillaume Peltier, and the ex RN, Jérôme Rivière. Two incarnations of the message that the nationalist candidate precisely came to carry this weekend in the Alpes-Maritimes: the union of the rights. Not quite insignificant in this region delighted with the left in 1986, by the UDF Jean-Claude Gaudin with the voices of the National Front...
“Pécresse with Zemmour!
says laughing, hands in megaphone, a merchant at the foot of his shop
.
Faced with the enthusiasm, the now vice-president of
Reconquest!
, Guillaume Peltier, slips:
“I haven’t seen that since Sarko in 2012…”
The crowd bath test
At the fish stalls, the candidate makes a date to go sea urchin fishing, swimming, at 5 o'clock in the morning.
Faced with a child somewhat panicked by the crush, the essayist consoles: “
You are right there is too much noise.
They are mean
”, he says pointing at the journalists before slipping them
“Well, you don't have the coast”
.
The
“Zemmour President”
chanted by the people of Cannes covers his steps, while three octogenarians discuss marital status and physical attractiveness as he passes.
“Bof.
No matter how small you say he is, given what he has in his head, that makes up for it”
, intimate one to the other two.
This is called the walkabout test.
Since his entry into the pre-campaign, Eric Zemmour had never yielded to the exercise, however traditional, of wandering in a market.
To the point of feeding criticism from his opponents as a
“candidate distant from people”
,
“loving France but not the French.
So
many trials that will be less easy to hold from now on.
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On the terrace of a bistro, Éric Zemmour was finally arrested by a municipal councilor from the opposition Rassemblement national du Cannet, Éric Ravasco.
The two men will end up toasting to “
the Union of patriots.
With a rosé from a famous Gard estate: Les sources de Marine.
Like a nod from the candidate to his rival.
Before formalizing a third war prize from his camp, the lawyer Gilbert Collard, during a public meeting held the same evening in Cannes.
