"You are the most unloved men and women in France. Who doesn't love you? The people, my good friends. The people have memory, judgment and lucidity," said the former polemicist of CNews and Le Figaro, in front of a few dozen journalists gathered in his Parisian HQ.

While underlining his "passion" for his "old profession", the presidential candidate (Reconquest!) Lambasted the "pressure exerted on you, since the school of journalism, with an ideology ready to do anything to impose its dogmas" , as well as a "sheep tendency to copy oneself".

"With + Lost Illusions +, Balzac wrote the most acerbic criticism of your profession, it has not aged a bit. In Balzac's time, we were liberal, patriotic, socialist. Today we are anti-racist, feminist, environmentalist , culture + woke + has taken the place of Marxism which had taken the place of the socialist which had taken the place of liberalism ", affirmed Mr. Zemmour.

The "woke" indicates the awareness of injustices, in particular related to the color of skin or to the gender.

"You deserve better than this intellectual slavery (...) Elected president I will free you, you will discover the joy of no longer submitting yourself. The public service will no longer spit on the taxpayer every day for breakfast," he said. he continued.

"2022 will be the year of the rebirth of French journalism, the real one, the big one, the one who died suffocated under the leaden cover of the politically correct", again launched Eric Zemmour, surrounded by Philippe de Villiers and the rallied and former number 2 of LR Guillaume Peltier.

The far-right candidate had already booed the media Liberation and Mediapart a week ago when he greeted his activists, accusing the "left-wing newspapers" of "hunting" against him.

He also whistled the media on December 5 during his meeting in Villepinte, marked by incidents with a brief sheltering of a team of Daily (TMC / TF1), booed by supporters of the candidate and journalists of Mediapart reporting having been beaten.

The presidential candidate Eric Zemmour during his greetings to the press, surrounded by Guillaume Peltier (l), Laurence Trochu (2nd d) and Philippe de Villiers (d), January 10, 2022 in Paris Bertrand GUAY AFP

Eric Zemmour also unveiled Monday his program on the school that he considers in a state of "collapse".

He again pleaded for the return of the "blouse" to primary school, as well as the "certificate of studies", the "end of the single colleague" or the abolition of the higher national institutes of teaching and education. (ex IUFM, to train teachers) in order to replace them with "regional normal schools".

Eric Zemmour criticized "pedagogists for indoctrinating our children with a feminist, anti-racist and decolonial ideology".

A trip to the school is planned at the end of the week, a priori in Saint-Quentin (Aisne).

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