French presidential election: Zemmour in competition with the rights in Hauts-de-France

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Public meeting of Éric Zemmour in Saint-Quentin, in the north of France, on January 14, 2022. AFP - BERTRAND GUAY

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Éric Zemmour is campaigning in Hauts-de-France.

The far-right candidate, ranked fourth in the polls, is trying to catch up on Valérie Pécresse and Marine Le Pen.

This Friday, January 14, he went to flirt with voters on the lands of the National Rally and the Republicans.

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With our special correspondent in Saint-Quentin,

Julien Chavanne

Marine Le Pen achieved one of her finest scores there.

The small village of Honnecourt-sur-Escaut gave him a 20-point lead ahead of Emmanuel Macron in 2017.

Well, this is where Éric Zemmour came to plant his flag.

 I would like to thank the Mayor for welcoming us so warmly here

 ,” he said.

The mayor didn't just roll out the red carpet for the candidate.

Jean-Pierre Golebiewski has chosen to grant his precious sponsorship to Éric Zemmour.

You know, Marine Le Pen, she can tell me what she's doing... Mélenchon... I don't care!

The only one who answered me present, who wants to help me, is him.

What do you want me to tell you?

Saving the villages, this is the rural program of the Reconquest candidate: "

 France is first and foremost a rural country, and now we must revitalize the rural areas that have been suffocated by the rural exodus and by metropolisation

 " , he said.

A blow on the ground of the RN, another towards LR.

Éric Zemmour ends the day in Saint-Quentin, the stronghold of Xavier Bertrand.

A clear and assumed strategy.

“ 

I am the only one,

he assures us,

who brings together all these rights, who unites the rights and who puts it into practice today.

 »

The union of the rights remains for the moment denied by the polls.

Valérie Pécresse and Marine Le Pen keep the advantage, each in its camp.

Éric Zemmour is counting on future rallies to prove the opposite.

My friends, our teams have been preparing our project for school for months, and I want to salute them for the colossal work that has been done.#SaintQuentin pic.twitter.com/sXIwMCZESs

— Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) January 14, 2022

Return of the blouse and end of English lessons in primary school;

prohibit teaching against discrimination;

abolish social allowances for parents of late children...

Mr. Zemmour presented his program for the school at a meeting in Saint-Quentin.

For the Reconquest candidate, French education is threatened by a " 

left ideology

 " coming in particular from associations helping migrants.

Sorry, but it's not the school to serve as propaganda for the accomplices of smugglers, mafias and the immigrationist left

Éric Zemmour in Saint-Quentin, January 14, 2022

Julien Chavanne

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