For Nicolas Sarkozy, "Eric Zemmour is the symptom of the void" in our democracy

Ugo Pascolo 6:36 p.m., September 28, 2021, modified at 7:06 p.m., September 28, 2021

INTERVIEW

The wave of popularity enjoyed by Eric Zemmour in recent weeks, including 11% of voting intentions in the polls, is it the result of a political class? To this question, the former President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, would certainly answer yes, since for him the polemicist is the "symptom of the void" in our democracies. Exceptional guest of "Punchline" on Europe 1 Tuesday, he believes that "the pressure of a single thought is such, that it ended up emptying the political debate". 

And this void "allows excesses, extremes, all those whose excess serves as an argument, to take up all the space". Recalling his admiration for "people who play politics", including those who do not have his ideas, Nicolas Sarkozy delivers his solution to fill the void, and by the same token his symptom. "We must not attack the excesses and extremes, we must give content to those who are neither in the excess nor in the extremes." 

Asked then about the controversy created by Eric Zemmour after his statements on the Jewish victims of Mohammed Merah, Nicolas Sarkozy again tackled the polemicist.

"We can not touch the parents [of the victims of Merah], they are untouchable," said the former president.

Guest of Laurent Ruquier's program "On est en direct" on France 2 on September 11, Eric Zemmour had criticized the parents of Gabriel, Arié and Myriam for having buried them in Israel.

A criticism that Nicolas Sarkozy "does not accept". 

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