Paris (AFP)

Eric Zemmour does not have "applicable solutions" to "straighten France" unlike Marine Le Pen, said the spokesperson for the National Gathering Sébastien Chenu on Friday, the day after a televised debate by the polemicist with the leader of LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

"The important thing is to have the answers; today he does not have them", while Marine Le Pen has "the experience", "has a team", and "an applicable program", a- he argues on France 2.

"Eric Zemmour does his analyzes, some of them converge with ours", but "I watched the debate (...), I did not see any solutions, any applicable proposals. This is not the story first names which will be able to solve the problem of immigration in our country ", he judged about the wish of the polemicist to impose French first names.

"We are making proposals because we have tested these proposals, this is what Marine Le Pen means today in the field: it is to see if the proposals she is making for the country are in line with the expectations of the French ", explained Mr. Chenu.

The president of the RN has campaigned in recent days without press or very little, on specialized themes, while Eric Zemmour scours the TV shows.

Asked if it had not "lost in radicalism" by dint of wanting to "become president", he felt that the question is not to know where it is "on a right-left chessboard which no longer exists. "but" if what she proposes results in the recovery of the country ". And in particular with the help of "national priority", a proposition which is certainly "not new", but "the idea is not to be fashionable people", it is to be "fashionable people". serious people ".

"It's been ten times, a hundred times that the media, the political class have buried her and she goes back on horseback and performs scores much higher than those predicted to her," he also said.

The head of the RN has significantly declined since the summer in the voting intentions of the French in the first round of the presidential election, to 18-20% according to the polls, while Eric Zemmour, who no longer hides his intentions for 2022, is given at 10-11%.

For Mr. Chenu, "it is not competition" but the "division" from which the RN "may suffer".

He also called on the polemicist to say clearly if he intends to be a candidate before "seeing if we can work together".

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