Presidential: is Eric Zemmour's candidacy video a success?

Julien Holtzer 9:52 p.m., November 30, 2021, modified at 9:55 p.m., November 30, 2021

Eric Zemmour has finally put an end to the suspense.

On his YouTube channel, the now ex-polemicist officially announced his candidacy for the next presidential election.

During ten minutes, he tackles many subjects on "France which one finds in films and in books" and a good number of personalities who made history, like Joan of Arc, Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte or even General de Gaulle. 

Eric Zemmour "breaks the codes of political language"

A speech at the antipodes of what his predecessors could have done, which allows him to return to the presidential chessboard after a trip to Marseille marked by the controversy of a middle finger.

"He was tossed about by events. And there, he puts his theme, his history, his story, his vision of France back into the political debate," summarizes Guillaume Tabard, political columnist at

, at the microphone of Laurence Ferrari.

"The tone is very declaimed, and it is not usual. It also breaks the codes of a political language perhaps a little too agreed and that attracts the attention". An application considered successful therefore, on the form, but that should be improved on the substance observes for his part Olivier Beaumont, journalist at Le

. "I'm qualified because it's still a declaration of candidacy. There, he addresses his base, his potential electoral heart. And I, I still expected him to send some signals of 'enlargement anyway, since it is a declaration. This is perhaps what it should correct in its strategy. " 

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"A fairly risky strategy"

But for Guillaume Tabard on the contrary, it is a well-established tactic on the part of Eric Zemmour.

"Staying constant, not deviating from the line, not making concessions is part of his strategy. This is what he often criticizes politicians for, for 'talking rough' roughly, when it comes down to it. 'It is about seducing activists and changing the discourse to broaden their electorate. But the bet is risky. "

Is this video going to launch it definitively?

Not totally, according to Nathalie Schuck, journalist at

also invited on the set of Punchline, for whom the obstacles are still numerous.

"He must succeed in his great Zenith meeting and have 500 signatures because for the moment, he has had a few losses online."

The 500 signatures, the

condition 

for him to run for the 2022 presidential election.