It was a milestone that was expected.
It has just been crossed.
Launched during the big meeting in Villepinte at the beginning of December, the Reconquête party - which serves as an electoral war machine for Éric Zemmour for the presidential campaign but also for the legislative elections next June - has just crossed the bar of 100,000 militants.
"
I will welcome him tomorrow, he is a person who comes from LR and I will give him his hundred thousandth member card
," said the nationalist suitor on Sunday evening on TF1.
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For several weeks, the candidate for the queen election has multiplied the calls of the foot both to sympathizers of the RN and those of LR.
And this, to build his union of the rights of which he would be the unifier: to bet on the disenchantment of the voters of these partisan structures and on the weakening of the leaders of these political families.
To further break these political shops, Éric Zemmour has been implementing a strategy for almost a month.
Bring to him the headliners of these two banks of the right.
This was the case of Guillaume Peltier, former number two of LR, Jérôme Rivière, former boss of RN deputies in the European Parliament, Gilbert Collard, also from the ranks of the flame party, and finally Senator Stéphane Ravier since Sunday morning .
“
I embarked on this battle to save France from Islamization and the great replacement of France,
analyzes the leader of Reconquest.
I'm tired of these cities surrounded by halal shops, halal butchers, Kebabs.
I've had enough of this constant insecurity.
According to him, the right-wing French join him "
because they want to participate in this fight against the great replacement and they think that I am the only one
" to
"defend"
the country.
If he admits that LR defectors "
are less known
" - "
less prominent
" - the nationalist boasts of those who "
join him the most
", according to him:
"The French".
During his first big rally in Villepinte, Éric Zemmour appealed to voters who might be tempted to join him.
“We have to come together, we have to come together, we have to unify.
I want to return the right to vote to the voters of the National Front, and I want to return the right to the voters of LR”
, he had proposed.