Paris (AFP)
The far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour, who continues to maintain the vagueness of a presidential candidacy, attacked the Republicans (LR) on Sunday, "a party of centrist notables" which he accuses of having " betrayed the "Gaullist right" which he claims to be.
"They have a technical competence that I do not have, elected officials, mayors, presidents of regional councils ... but what use is the competence if it is combined with impotence?", He said interviewed in the program Le Grand Rendez-Vous Europe 1 / CNEWS / Les Echos.
"This is their real problem," he said.
"An impotence at the same time organized, which they accepted - the judges, the Commission of Brussels -, and an impotence born from their incapacity to make the correct historical diagnosis", he estimated.
As for the RN candidate Marine Le Pen, according to Eric Zemmour, she has "the reflexes of a leftist woman", but "is not [her] obsession".
"I come from a political family which was called the RPR when I was young, and I think that if the National Front or the National Rally has progressed so much, it is precisely because the RPR has been denied, betrayed" , he continued, saying that he demonstrated in his books "how Chiraquism had betrayed Gaullism, had betrayed the right".
For Eric Zemmour, LR, who is due to nominate his candidate on December 4, is "a party of notable centrists, who afterwards claim that I do not share their values. But themselves, how do they share the values of the RPR and of the front right? They themselves betrayed General de Gaulle and even Georges Pompidou ".
In an interview almost entirely devoted to his conception of Islam, foreigners in France and his vision of the history of France, the columnist also reiterated his opposition to "memorial laws", as well as to the law. Pleven of 1972 repressing racist insults and incitement to racial hatred, which he deemed "liberticidal".
Asked about a possible announcement of candidacy - and while the latest polls give him some 10% of voting intentions - he repeated that he wanted to "choose his moment".
"If I didn't go, I would disappoint a lot of people," he said.
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