In the spotlight: the escaped Zemmour in pursuit of Macron (poll)
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Eric Zemmour.
AFP - JOEL SAGET
By: Norbert Navarro
4 min
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Unheard of in political history in France!
The still not candidate Éric Zemmour given in second position of the voting intentions for the next presidential election, while, according to Édouard Philippe, the re-election of the still not candidate Emmanuel Macron is "
not acquired
".
"
An earthquake
," launches the weekly
Challenges
, which published a Harris Interactive poll earlier this week indicating that Eric Zemmour "
doubles Marine Le Pen and qualifies virtually for the second round of the presidential election. The far-right columnist, who has still not declared his candidacy and is a novice in politics, wins four points and climbs to 17% of the voting intentions, when the patron of the National Rally, in free fall since in summer (…), falls to 15%. If the presidential election took place (today), it is he who would face Emmanuel Macron in the second round - and not the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen
”, contemplates
Challenges
.
An avalanche of comments in the press this week about this shocking poll. In
Le Parisien Dimanche
, the head of the CFDT workers union, this morning, is alarmed. "
I look at this with fear," said Laurent Berger. (If Éric Zemmour) goes, he has the courage to say it now. And we will fight model against model. Faced with the extreme right, we must not hide (…) We must not be embarrassed to say: we want a plural society, more open, more tolerant, more just. He will call us naïve. So what ? Me, he calls me "the Good Samaritan". Well, I don't care! (…) It must be said: his model is the women at home!
», Declares Laurent Berger to
Parisien Dimanche
.
It is in this political context that Édouard Philippe launched, yesterday in Le Havre, in the north-west of France, his political party called Horizons.
In
Le Journal du Dimanche
, the former Prime Minister declares that his objective "
is first of all (...) to support Emmanuel Macron to contribute to his re-election, which is not certain,
" warns Édouard Philippe in
Le JDD
!
Austria: suspected of corruption, Kurz throws in the towel
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced last night that he was stepping down. "
He left without yielding anything to his accusers,
" notes
Le Journal du Dimanche
. But the position of Sebastian Kurz, the youngest European leader, "
had become untenable,
" admits
Le JDD
. The Austrian Conservative Chancellor was accused of having favored the publication of laudatory articles and partially manipulated opinion studies which were favorable to him in exchange for the purchase of advertising space. However, completes this weekly, "
however, his resignation does not mean withdrawal from political life.
He announced to take the head of his parliamentary group.
His opponents see it as a ruse allowing him to benefit from the immunity due to a mandate
”.
Mali: Choguel Maiga, the devious
This week, several French magazines come back to the tensions between France and Mali following the statements of the Malian Prime Minister Choguel Maïga at the platform of the United Nations.
Choguel Maiga? It is “
a blaster in the Sahel
”, launches
Le Figaro Magazine
, recalling his statements on September 25, when at the United Nations platform, the Malian Prime Minister had accused France of “
abandonment in full flight
” , attracting indignation both from the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, and from the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly, and from President Macron, who had qualified these remarks as “
shameful
”, considering that the legitimacy of Choguel Maiga was "
democratically null
" and calling him "the
child of two coups d'état
".
Recalling that Choguel Maiga studied in Belarus and then in Moscow,
Le JDD
explains that the Malian Prime Minister “
knows that in Mali, power is won and is preserved in Bamako. A capital where it is good to curse France in the name of so-called neocolonialism
”.
Then ? So
Marianne
mocks Emmanuel Macron. “
From Algiers to Bamako via Canberra, Jupiter has been very angry lately
,” this magazine quipped. "
Without naming him explicitly and forgetting (...) diplomatic uses, Emmanuel Macron spent his nerves on the new Malian Prime Minister
", points
Marianne
. "
Very well, but the Elysee had not expressed such virtuous demands with Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the deposed president, nor recently in Chad during the enthronement, in defiance of all the rules, of the son Deby
", underlines this weekly. As for Choguel Maiga, this “
old politician with a winding course, (he) is far from unanimous in Mali, especially in the M5 movement, at the origin of the fall of IBK.
But, by questioning the real results of eight years of French presence, he is playing a winner.
And not only in Bamako
", remarks
Marianne
, estimating that Emmanuel Macron will have" a
lot to do to reverse the trend
".
Emmanuel Macron is struggling as best he can to counter France's loss of influence in Mali.
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