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This is called the walkabout test. Any candidate, whoever he is, must one day or another comply with this eloquent revealer of personality. Since entering the campaign, Éric Zemmour had curiously neglected the exercise, however traditional, of strolling through a market. It was finally between the covered stalls of Cannes that the essayist resolved to dive into it on Saturday. Escorted by two of his fresh war catches: ex RN Jérôme Rivière and ex LR Guillaume Peltier. “
I haven't seen that since Sarko
,” slips the latter, faced with the enthusiasm of the crowd.
At the rate of three steps per minute, the candidate gives in, all smiles, to the requests for selfies that reckless onlookers offer him after crossing the pack of fifty journalists.
"
Thank you Mr. Zemmour, don't give up!
“, encourages a man in his sixties.
“
Save us
”, outbids, moved, a woman in a wheelchair.
Appointment is…
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