The Bérézina, in our imagination, resembles a rout, but many historians present it as a military victory.
Is it this ambivalence that presided over the choice of the title of Marylou Magal's essay?
Perhaps, because the journalist from
Le Figaro
considers that Éric Zemmour's electoral defeat is offset by the role of ideological "icebreaker" that the former journalist played.
“Election rout,”
says the subtitle.
In view of the dreams of victory, it is undeniable, but if we compare the performance with those who, before Zemmour, wanted to "turbulate the system" - Marie-France Garaud (1.33%), Philippe de Villiers (4.7%), Alain Madelin (3.9%), Jean-Pierre Chevènement (5.3%) - the president of Reconquête!
need not blush.
For a first candidacy, this score is not humiliating but it crystallizes a bitter failure.
This is one of the many paradoxes of a political adventure which was intended not to install a new formation but rather...
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