Full and unrequited support.
One month before the first round of the presidential election, Senator Les Républicains du Val-d'Oise, Sébastien Meurant, made his choice:
"I have decided to support Éric Zemmour and I call on LR activists and elected officials to the same”
, he announces to
Figaro
.
The chosen one of fifty years does not hide for several years his proximity to the views of the essayist.
“I was present when Laurent Wauquiez welcomed Eric Zemmour to party headquarters.
He was really at home then.
Many activists continue to think that he is the one who best embodies Gaullist ideas and who is able to bring together all the right "
, assumes the parliamentarian.
In September, this support of Éric Ciotti during the race for the nomination Les Républicains for the presidential election had campaigned for the participation of the author of
French Suicide
in the mechanism for selecting the candidate of the right.
In vain.
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The decision, however
, “was not easy to make”
testifies this member of the LR investiture committee and president of the federation of the movement in Val-d’Oise.
“Supporting the candidacy of Valérie Pécresse, despite my reservations about her Macron-compatible character, only made sense if she could win.
However
, all observers give it largely beaten
and many of the great elected LRs have dropped it to join Emmanuel Macron.
Under these conditions, why not campaign on our ideas?”,
pretends to question the parliamentarian.
He says he is attached to the RPR-UDF line of 1990. A program of
"Frank break with socialism unfortunately abandoned by our leaders each time we have been in power,"
he tackles.
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Faced with Emmanuel Macron, whom he accuses of being at the origin of a
"perversion of democracy"
, of a lowering of public speech as of being the champion
of "a post-national society"
,
Sébastien Meurant does not sees that Éric Zemmour is likely to
"rebuild the Nation, the State and France"
.
“He is someone who is head on his shoulders, who is full of common sense and who does not change according to the climate or his interlocutors”
, praises the defector.
If he remains individual, this rallying from the Les Républicains party is timely for the
Reconquest! candidate.
Since the arrival of the deputy of Loir-et-Cher Guillaume Peltier at his side in January, the essayist had recorded mostly support from the National Rally such as the MEP Nicolas Bay, the senator Stéphane Ravier or Marion Maréchal.
The candidate has recorded a loss of momentum since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine and remains behind in most polls behind Marine Le Pen with a view to a second round against Emmanuel Macron.
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