In a long investigation published in "Paris Match", the journalist Emilie Lanez tells how Eric Zemmour is preparing to be a candidate for the presidential election of 2022. The polemicist would have already formed a team and made contact to print posters and leaflets , she assures on Europe 1. 

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If he remains evasive as to his ambitions, the hypothesis of a candidacy of Eric Zemmour in the presidential election of 2022 is reinforced a little more every day.

In a long investigation, the magazine

Paris Match

ensures that it "takes the plunge" and "refines its battle plan for the Elysee".

Invited Thursday from Europe 1, the journalist Emilie Lanez, author of the article, tells the behind the scenes of the preparation of the far-right polemicist. 

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For her, things are clear: "Those around him tell me that yes, he is a candidate."

Eric Zemmour, she says, "made his decision last winter, put together a team, met a printer to print posters and leaflets."

At the same time, "he attaches the services and promises of people capable of financing a future campaign", and has also already found a name for his future party: "Vox populi". 

Surrounded by relatives of Marion Maréchal

It remains to be seen when he would announce this candidacy. "There are a lot of hesitations," says Emilie Lanez, because Eric Zemmour "would like to be a journalist as long as possible". "It is true that it is comfortable, hours of air where he can distill his program [on CNews], benefit from 900,000 listeners who cost nothing without being counted by the CSA," she points out. No date has therefore yet been decided, but "some of his relatives told me that he was thinking about announcing it on November 11," said the journalist from

Paris Match

, qualifying this choice as "far-fetched" . 

"Comforted" by the poor scores of the RN in the regional elections, Eric Zemmour, sentenced in the fall to a fine of 10,000 euros for insult and incitement to hatred, is now seeking to surround himself.

And he can count for this on relatives of Marion Maréchal, officially withdrawn from political life.

The niece of Marine Le Pen "has placed many of his activists around him, and many of his advisers have joined him. She places around him people capable of helping him," says Emilie Lanez. 

Accelerated economics courses

"Convinced of being legitimate", Eric Zemmour would however be aware of one of his weaknesses before launching himself: the economy. The polemicist is therefore currently taking "intensive courses" with the former CEO of Elf, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent, who "gives him cards and crash courses on what he thinks good, him, to redress the economic fabric of France ", tells the guest from Europe 1, seeing" a teacher-student relationship that leaves you thoughtful ".