His "reconquest" suffered a second setback.
Candidate in the 4th constituency of Var - where he had won 15% of the presidential vote - for the legislative elections of 2022, Éric Zemmour did not manage to reach the second round this Sunday, June 12.
With 23.5% of the vote according to the partial results of the Ministry of the Interior, the nationalist does not meet 12.5% of those registered on her name, the minimum threshold to be able to qualify.
He therefore finds himself outdistanced by the macronist Sereine Mauborgne, in first position, (28.6%), and the RN Philippe Lottiaux, second, who collects 24.8% of the votes.
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Zemmour weakened in the battle of the nationalist right
“
The results did not meet our expectations.
But we have just put a flag in each constituency in France
”, relativized Éric Zemmour Sunday evening in a first speech from the Var.
Probably the only one, given that he would have, according to several news channels, canceled all his television appearances scheduled for the evening.
A few weeks after having collected only 7.07% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election, Éric Zemmour finds himself once again left behind by the RN.
By winning 23.15% of the vote on April 10, Marine Le Pen had already won a first internal battle on the nationalist right.
The new defeat of the boss of the Reconquest!
at the end of the first round of the legislative comes a little more to strengthen the RN on the political niche that he hoped to dispute with him.
“
We had proposed the union to the other right-wing parties, they did not want it.
The left had the free way.
And we see the results tonight,
he regretted.
Voters on the right will remember this for a long time.
Éric Zemmour had indeed proposed a
“national union”
to all components of the right a few minutes after Emmanuel Macron's victory on April 24.
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Beyond the objective of electing deputies, the election was above all an opportunity for the new movement to obtain public subsidies.
The financing of political parties is calculated according to the number of votes and elected members in the legislative elections.
Each vote for a candidate on the national territory provides about 1.40 euros for his training each year for five years.
Reconquest!
hopes in this way to secure a financial windfall of at least one million euros to survive and develop over the next two years without electoral deadlines, before the European elections of 2024.