Presidential 2022: Éric Zemmour takes the candidate's clothes

He thought her behind him.For Eric Zemmour, the “crossroads” was however well this Sunday, during this first major presidential campaign raout.Five days after his official declaration of candidacy;A month after the first hiccups of the dynamics which could carry it, in October, in the polls, at the doors of the second round.

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The essayist wanted to sign a demonstration of force, unprecedented by his scale in this campaign for 2022. Fill the huge hall of the Villepinte exhibition center, near Paris, four months from the presidential election.Twelve thousand five hundred seats, seven giant screens, a scenography worthy of a superproduction, under jets of blue, white, red light ... Nothing was spared to contradict the story which, after several blunders and controversies, already depictedThe shooting star essayist.At the head of a breakthrough as flamboyant as it is ephemeral."Bet successful," said team and close to the candidate, their champion not yet on the platform.

Willingness to do battle

"We are no longer doing politics, we make history," said essayist Paul-Marie Coutaux, seeing the hangar filling a dozen thousands of people.Among which under 30 years and higher social categories were particularly represented.In the front rows, in addition to the woman and the children of the author of the French suicide, could be seen the businessman Pierre-Jean Chalençon, a jacket with the image of Napoleon Bonaparte on her back.Alongside the former macronist deputy Joachim Son-Forget."We are already at 40,000 tweets, 20,000 people are connected to Live, and it did not even start," says Samuel Lafont, digital campaign manager.Even without knowing the speech, the simple fact that there are so many people is enough to reverse the dynamics. "

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Arrived on stage under the now traditional "Zemmour President", the essayist will have attacked his speech with the desire to do battle with his contemptors: "You have braved the politically correct, threats of the far left and hatred of the media, congratulates his supporters the former journalist, thin glasses on his nose.My adversaries want my political death, journalists want my social death and the jihadists want my death at all. ”

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To better oppose the militant fervor of which he enjoys the attacks of an alleged system against him, Éric Zemmour launches to his activists: "If they hate me, it is because they hate you;If they despise me, it is because they despise you.You, this people they had underestimated, which they even thought they had got rid of. "

In his very written speaking of more than an hour and a half, the candidate ensures: "Yes, I make a distinction between who is French and who is not.No, I will not send some French!Yes, I reach out to Muslims who want to become our brothers!Many are already. "Before repeating his desire to return to the law of the soil, to harden the conditions of naturalization and to suppress social benefits to foreigners.

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Rallies

The absence, this Sunday, of the founder of Puy du Fou, Philippe de Villiers, was felt as an "important disappointment" for Eric Zemmour, according to several relatives.A defect filled as best they can by a succession of "allied" speeches.From Vijay Monany, young elected the Republicans of Seine-Saint-Denis, at the former national rally of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Agnès Marion.Without forgetting the former representative of the "yellow vests", Jacline Mouraud, the president of the conservative movement (ex-common sense) Laurence Trochu and the chief of via (ex-Christian-democratic party) Jean-Frédéric Poisson.

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All will not be surprised by their rallying to Eric Zemmour's candidacy, for having "managed to install civilization issues at the heart of the presidential campaign".All are intended to join the new party of Eric Zemmour, reconquest, whose launch was formalized this Sunday and to which the candidate called in conclusion of his meeting everyone coming from LR, RN or ranks of abstentionto join."I reach out to voters, executives, sympathizers, the Republicans, many of whom were represented by my friend Éric Ciotti," he concluded just a few hours after the disappointed finalist of the LR congress publicly demonstrated firstdifferences with Valérie Pécresse.

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