The support can surprise, even if it is tactical.
While the two contenders from the nationalist right have been engaged in a fierce political battle for a few months, Marine Le Pen came to support her competitor from Reconquest after the attack he was subjected to on Sunday by the ecologist Yannick Jadot.
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Guest of Radio J, the one who oscillates around 4-5% in the polls had seriously castigated a candidate
"reconciling part of France with French Algeria, with Pétain, with anti-Semitism".
The nationalist applicant "
has a difference with Jean-Marie Le Pen
", - "
a perverse difference
", according to him -, "
is that Zemmour is Jewish.
“Continuing his rhetoric to better attack the neo-candidate, Yannick Jadot had launched:”
Éric Zemmour is the Jew of service for the anti-Semites.
“And to drive the point home by explaining that he is a
” surety “
and an
” alibi “
for”
all the anti-Semites and all the racists.
»
Despite the controversy, the leader of EELV reiterated these remarks on RMC on Monday: “
There is a whole part of the population who has found in Zemmour someone very practical to assume anti-Semitism, he is the idiot useful anti-Semitism.
What to get the contender RN Marine Le Pen out of the electoral battle to defend the other leader of the “national camp”.
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“The French deserve a dignified political debate, the words of Yannick Jadot against Éric Zemmour are appalling and should be condemned by all candidates. These leftist lesson givers have abandoned the Republic in the open countryside for too long”,
wrote the former boss of the RN on Twitter.
For the moment, it must be said that Eric Zemmour has not yet officially replied to the exit of his opponent.
In the end, few reactions emerged in the political class.
"
It's shocking, it's shameful this resurgence of anti-Semitism on the far left
", notably reprimanded the LR deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes Éric Ciotti on Monday on BFMTV.
On France Info, the boss of the PS Olivier Faure does not believe “
that we must qualify people by what they are, we do not have to essentialize anyone.
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