Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Clément Perruche 12:44 p.m., September 23, 2021, modified at 1:03 p.m., September 23, 2021

What if Eric Zemmour invited himself to the Republicans primary?

"Le Figaro" revealed this Thursday morning that the team of the putative presidential candidate is working behind the scenes to try to register the columnist in the possible primary of the right organized by The Republicans.

While the Republicans must stop, this weekend, the process of selecting their candidate for the presidential election of 2022, "Le Figaro" revealed that Eric Zemmour's team was working behind the scenes to try to register the columnist on the possible primary organized by the party. 

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Themes dear to the LR electorate

Eric Zemmour, who multiplies the media events, shares certain subjects with the right wing training. And on paper, a priori, few things prevent Eric Zemmour from running for the primary on the right. The editorialist swears by General De Gaulle, a major figure in the political imagination of LR, and claims to find himself in the program of the RPR of the 90s, which then held a harsh discourse on immigration. A theme still very popular in the electorate of the Republicans.

In fact, things seem a bit more complicated.

Gérard Larcher and Christian Jacob, two tenors of the party, marked their opposition to such an approach, highlighting the differences in values ​​between Eric Zemmour and the Republicans.

"There are values ​​that we do not share. We cannot bring everything down to a single subject: the great replacement. Other subjects arise in terms of health, food, purchasing power," explained Christian Jacob at the microphone of France Inter Wednesday morning.

A surprise to come?

However, the essayist seduces right-wing voters.

He certainly does not have his party card, but neither does Xavier Bertrand and Valérie Pécresse, both candidates for the presidential election.

Gathering the 250 sponsorships of elected officials needed to run should not be insurmountable for the former CNews columnist.

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The participation of Eric Zemmour in the primary would be a surprise for many people, because the polemicist has always praised the tradition of the Fifth Republic and the meeting between a man and the people.

But the columnist has become accustomed to playing the spoilsport and the absence of a true leader on the right could favor his approach.

The troublemaker Zemmour will never have lived up to his name so well.