Éric Zemmour crushed his presidential rival Valérie Pécresse this Saturday, assuring on the eve of the first major campaign meeting of the candidate LR that her "center right will not be better than the center left of Emmanuel Macron".
In a speech delivered in the afternoon in front of more than 3,000 people gathered in the small town of Saulieu (Côte-d'Or), the far-right candidate urged voters to make the right choice in the first round "between save the LRs or save the nation”.
According to the polls, the candidate Les Républicains, that of the National Rally Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour are in a pocket handkerchief for accession to the second round against outgoing President Emmanuel Macron, the latter being largely at the head of voting intentions.
The challenge of the first round for Éric Zemmour is therefore first of all to divert as many voters as possible from his two rivals.
In the immediate future, it is also a question of weakening Valérie Pécresse, while she is holding her first big meeting on Sunday in Paris, with the aim of revitalizing a campaign which has been skating for a few weeks.
“No, Valérie Pécresse is not on the right”
In Burgundy, in front of a conquered audience and singing “We are at home”, Éric Zemmour methodically attacked the economic and social program of candidate LR, portrayed as a centrist and spendthrift technocrat.
Increasing low wages by 10%, as proposed by candidate LR, would be, according to him, “the left-wing measure par excellence!
And what are the consequences?
A drop in hiring, therefore an increase in unemployment, therefore an increase in taxes, therefore a drop in purchasing power.
It is the quadruple penalty!
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Valérie Pécresse's objective of building 500,000 housing units per year, wanted by the candidate to promote home ownership, would, on the contrary, according to Éric Zemmour, lead to "covering the country with social housing", and to making "each village a '9-3′ miniature”, pejorative allusion to the department of Seine-Saint-Denis.
“No, Valérie Pécresse is not on the right”, hammered Éric Zemmour, again denouncing the immigration policy of the candidate who was booed copiously by the public at the meeting.
And to strike: “With Valérie Pécresse, you will not have Zemmour.
You won't even get half a Zemmour.
You will have a mask plastered over the face of technocracy.
“And” the center right of Valérie Pécresse will not be better than the center left of Emmanuel Macron.
It will be the same cowardice, the same zigzags, the same hypocrisy, the same abandonment of all principles”.
