• Marine Le Pen held her presidential convention this Saturday in Reims, intended to officially launch her presidential campaign.

  • But this large gathering was polluted by Eric Zemmour, who was giving a speech in Lille at the same time.

  • The RN candidate pretended to minimize the candidacy of her rival, preferring to reserve her blows for the head of state.

From our special correspondent in Reims,

In the main hall of the Parc des Expositions, Marine Le Pen struggles to make her way through the crowd.

The atmosphere is friendly, activists chant his name, everyone wants their selfie.

The candidate of the National Rally spends long minutes at the regional stands to exchange with her supporters.

Three thousand people, coming from the four corners of the territory, are announced here in Reims.

But this presidential convention, which aims to symbolically launch his campaign from "the city of coronations", is partly wasted.

Because two heads are currently vying for the crown of the “national camp”.

In a corner of the hangar precisely, a group of militants discusses.

At the heart of their discussions: Eric Zemmour.

The Reconquest candidate, who multiplies the war prizes within the National Rally, is at the same time holding a large meeting in Lille.

“Eric Zemmour has the will to parasitize our campaign”

After throwing a few slaps in the press, Marine Le Pen refuses this Saturday to directly discuss the fight with her rival.

“I do not fit into this duel, in this game.

I am running a serious campaign, I will continue to talk about the substance, ”she summarizes in the morning, a little annoyed, in front of the journalists.

But she recognizes that the presence of Eric Zemmour weakens her candidacy and prevents her from fully establishing the match with the outgoing president.

So, to better marginalize the identity candidate, the MP for Pas-de-Calais mischievously advises him "to clean up" in his movement, after having pointed the finger in

Le Figaro

the day before the "traditionalist Catholics", the "pagans and some Nazis.

In the process, Jordan Bardella, the president of the National Rally, lets go of his blows with less modesty.

“Eric Zemmour has the will to parasitize our campaign.

His obsession is to prevent Marine Le Pen from reaching the second round.

He wants this match, because he is in a testimonial process, but it is not our wish.

We are not going to get into a small final with Eric Zemmour, who is now fighting for fourth place with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Our only adversary is Emmanuel Macron”.

“Emmanuel Macron is not only contemptuous, he is depressing”

After the speeches of several party officials, Marine Le Pen goes on stage around 7 p.m. Faithful to the strategy of the day, she has only one target in mind: the head of state. The candidate curbs "orange-macronic France" in a long and very heavy charge against the President of the Republic. “This so-called Mozart of finance who only managed to compose a dramatic symphony, leaving a debt increased by 600 billion euros. We were promised a crash, but the only crash we had was financial,” she says to cheers.

“Everything seems to lead him to a methodical looting of what makes France.

This five-year term is immense chaos”, which leaves a “poly-traumatized France”, she continues.

“Macronism is the terrible synthesis of cynicism and injustice.

It is a machine for crushing hopes under the guise of progressivism.

Emmanuel Macron is not only contemptuous, he is depressing”.

At no time does the candidate quote Eric Zemmour.

The priority is elsewhere: to crush the president and put forward his proposals to replace him next April.

The candidate knows that the victory will go through a strong participation of her electorate.

A little earlier, Marine Le Pen inaugurated a dozen buses bearing her image.

They will be launched in the coming days on the roads of France to mobilize the troops.

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  • Reims

  • Presidential election 2022

  • Eric Zemmour

  • Marine Le Pen

  • National Rally (RN)

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