Victor Chabert 7:54 a.m., December 05, 2021, modified at 07:55 a.m., December 05, 2021

Eric Zemmour is holding his first presidential candidate meeting on Sunday afternoon.

Initially scheduled in front of 6,000 people at the Zénith in Paris, it will finally be at the Parc des Expositions de Villepinte, which can accommodate up to 20,000 people, that he will give his speech.

A pivotal moment for the former polemicist.

Will there be people at the Villepinte exhibition center?

Certainly more than at the Zénith in Paris, the place where the first meeting of the presidential candidate, Eric Zemmour, was to be held initially.

It is now in front of nearly 20,000 people that the former polemicist will be able to give the first outlines of his program.

What to launch his presidential campaign.

One hour of speech

This is the real launch of his campaign.

Eric Zemmour must become president, show that he is now aspiring to the supreme office and no longer a polemicist.

He worked on his speech himself, a fairly long speech of about an hour.

He will also launch his party and present his supporters.

For the moment, the best known, formalized by the candidate is the president of VIA, Jean-Frédéric Poisson.

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This Eric Zemmour meeting is also strategic, because it falls the day after Valérie Pécresse's victory at the Congress of Republicans.

And the neo-candidate has decided to openly flirt with those who voted for Eric Ciotti, whom he considers close to his political line.

In a letter addressed to activists Les Républicains on Saturday and published on social networks, Eric Zemmour recalled that with the Nice deputy, he maintains a real friendship and insisted: "I am expecting you tomorrow, soon".

This large gathering will be under close surveillance.

Several demonstrations are planned in Paris, notably at the initiative of the far left and anti-fascist activists.