In the spotlight: Zemmour the alchemist
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Polemicist Eric Zemmour.
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By: Norbert Navarro
10 mins
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Still not a declared candidate for next year's presidential election in France, the polemicist this week first caused a sensation in the polls. Starting with the one published by the weekly
Challenge
. Harris Interactive
poll
according to which, "
without having yet declared his candidacy, the polemicist already shows 11% of the voting intentions (...) an increase of 6 points since the beginning of July
", reports this magazine. As Challenge still points out, “
no less than 18% of voters who voted for Marine Le Pen declare that they intend to cast their votes on Zemmour. The latter also takes to the classic right, with 22% of Fillon voters in 2017 who will support him
", notes Challenge, stressing that Eric Zemmour"
is now on an equal footing with Jean-Luc Mélenchon and is getting closer to the candidates of the classical right
”!
Like the alchemist who turned lead into gold, how far will Zemmour go?
According to an Odoxa poll for the weekly
L'Obs
, no change in sight.
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen would still come first in the first round of the presidential election, the outgoing president being credited with 25% to 26% of the voting intentions, against about 21% to the president of the RN, Eric Zemmour pointing to 10 % about.
In the second round, the outgoing president would win, as in 2017, against Marine Le Pen, by 58% of the votes against 42%, reports
L'Obs
.
On the right, Xavier Bertrand would collect between 14% and 15% of the voting intentions, and Valérie Pécresse between 12.5% and 13%.
On the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is credited with 7.5 to 8% of voting intentions.
As for the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, with 4%, she "
collapses
", completes
L'Obs
.
Xavier Bertrand escapes
Another survey, the one which makes Xavier Bertrand the candidate best placed to win his camp.
And by far.
Ifop poll for
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
And its result is "
without appeal
", considers
Le JDD
.
After the expected choice of a large majority of activists of the right-wing LR party, yesterday, Saturday, September 25, to nominate their presidential candidate, not via a primary election, as in 2017, but via a congress, Xavier Bertrand is perceived by 28% of the French as the best placed within his camp to beat Emmanuel Macron at the polls (the other right-wing contenders, such as Valérie Pécresse or Michel Barnier for example, being thus left behind by Xavier Bertrand).
Which is also perceived by 33% of respondents to beat Marine Le Pen or Eric Zemmour.
Zemmour at the beach
Eric Zemmour, again him. It is also on the front page in a completely different register this week, that of private life. It's the front page that caused the most stir this week. That of
Paris Match
, via a telephoto photo taken eight days ago, and on which Eric Zemmour, during a sea bath in La Seyne-sur-Mer, appears in the water, tenderly holding a woman in his arm.
On the inside pages,
Paris Match
publishes other photos taken on the same beach in this town in the south-east of France, and paints the portrait of the bather, who is none other than his "
advisor
", a young enarque "
who runs his campaign
”, states in a
Paris Match
, magazine not to be confused with
Here, Closer
or other headlines of the celebrity press ...
Real or false "
paparazzade
"?
In other words, stolen photos or staging?
Still, Eric Zemmour has filed a complaint against Paris Match for invasion of privacy.
Revenge of the feathered serpent
Double anniversary under the beautiful sky of Mexico. This year, Mexico is celebrating both the 500th anniversary of the conquest of Hernan Cortes and the bicentenary of its independence. A double celebration in the controversy. Not without reason, since with only five hundred men Cortes succeeded in nothing less than destroying the Aztec Empire. More specifically, “
this year, Mexico commemorates both the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire that preceded Mexico City, and the bicentenary of its independence,”
recalls
L'Express
.
A controversial double anniversary, because the president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as "Amlo", calls on Spain and the Pope to apologize for the "atrocities"
of colonization ”.
Close to the President of the Republic, the mayor of Mexico “
announced that the statue of Christopher Columbus, which had been enthroned since 1877 in the center of the capital, will be moved further west
, reports
L'Express
.
The sculpture of an indigenous woman will replace the most vandalized monument in the megalopolis
”.
This magazine reports the results of a poll by the Spanish daily
El Pais
, according to which "
only 51% of Mexicans positively judge the contribution of the Conquest
".
Five centuries after the fall of Cuauhtémoc and Moctezuma, it is not known whether Mexicans have forgiven or not.
But what is certain is that they have not forgotten ...
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