Here it is again.
Silent since the first round where he was sharply beaten with 7.07% of the vote, Éric Zemmour took the floor again on Sunday evening a few moments after the proclamation of the results.
While he had called to vote Marine Le Pen during his defeat speech, the boss of Reconquest indicated his
"disappointment"
and his
"sadness"
at the score of the RN finalist.
And is already planning for the future legislative elections, scheduled for June 12 and 19.
“We will therefore be at the forefront of the fight to fight against the work of deconstruction of France (…).
led step by step by Emmanuel Macron”,
announced Éric Zemmour from the start from his Parisian HQ.
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In view of the electoral battle which opens, the former nationalist candidate has therefore reiterated his strategy
of "union of all the rights"
,
without which there can
"be no electoral victory".
“Is there a fatality for the national ideas to lose all the elections?”,
pretends to wonder Éric Zemmour to better hammer it:
“There are reasons to hope”.
According to him, "
the political situation today (
him)
requires action against the blocks of Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Mélenchon
" so as not to "
give them full powers
".
“We must forget our quarrels and join forces.
It's our duty"
The rebellious leader having asked the French to
"elect Prime Minister"
and to obtain a LFI majority in the National Assembly, Éric Zemmour calls for "
national unity
".
“We must forget our quarrels and join forces.
It is our duty,”
he added.
Taking the main lines of the forum published this week by his lieutenants in
Le Figaro
for
“a grand coalition of rights and patriots”,
Éric Zemmour explains that
“it is not an option, it is a necessity”
:
“Our responsibility is immense.
(...).
Our coalition must make France.”
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Faced with the victory of Emmanuel Macron who
"was the subject of massive rejection in public opinion"
, Éric Zemmour considers that
"the lovers of France have lost".
According to him,
"the revenge announced"
between the outgoing president and Marine Le Pen
"came short".
“Alas, Alas, Alas, this is the eighth time that defeat has struck Le Pen's name.
(...).
It was not with lightheartedness that I announced
it”, finally lamented the boss of Reconquest.
Launched with drum and trumpet in the presidential campaign at the start of the 2021 school year, Éric Zemmour failed to outdo Marine Le Pen despite entering the arena having brought him closer to the second round.
Betting on a radical line to compete with an opponent RN too softened according to him, the nationalist leader
ultimately
accumulated missteps and paid hard for his leniency against the Russian regime from the start of the war in Ukraine.