Éric Zemmour returns to the arena.
Five weeks after his defeat in the first round of the presidential election (7.07%), the nationalist finally decided to stand as a candidate in the legislative elections in the 4th district of Var.
It is on this adopted electoral land, covering the communes of Cogolin, Saint-Tropez and Le Luc, that the leader of Reconquête!
decided this Thursday to formalize his candidacy.
A decision that was not easy.
And that took a long time to think about.
Among his lieutenants, opinions have been as diverse as they are clear-cut in recent weeks on the advisability of seeing their champion return to battle so quickly.
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After his disappointing score on the evening of April 10, many expressed their fears of another announced failure.
Of its consequences both on the image of the unsuccessful presidential candidate and on the morale of the troops.
Others were able to underline, on the contrary, the risks of a solitary victory.
Driving the leader of Reconquest!
to sit as a non-attached member at the very top right of the hemicycle.
Without speaking time or prerogative, or almost.
However, it was a completely different argument that prevailed:
“Bonaparte shows the example.
There were no other choices.
It is important for the image, especially internally.
Better is a fight lost in advance but fought all the same”,
justifies a long-time supporter of a candidacy for
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With 15% of the votes collected in the first round of the presidential election in this South-East constituency - against 32% for Marine Le Pen and 24% for Emmanuel Macron -, Éric Zemmour has a slim chance of reaching the second round.
Almost none to prevail.
He will face in particular the outgoing LREM deputy, Sereine Mauborgne and the RN Philippe Lottiaux, already a candidate in the constituency five years ago.
The Reconquest party!
should present 550 candidates and as many alternates despite zero prospects of victory.
Way to demonstrate the will of the movement to perpetuate.
And above all to obtain a maximum of public subsidies for the next five years.
Each vote collected by a candidate during the legislative elections brings a little less than one euro fifty per year to his political formation.
“We have to show that Reconquest!
it was not a small trick and then goes away.
Let the epic continue.
All the great epics began with a defeat”
, defends an adviser to Éric Zemmour.