French Presidential: Valérie Pécresse copies Éric Zemmour, who savors
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Presidential candidate Éric Zemmour poses with Corinne Marchand (L) and Jamila Allaoui, the party's 100,000th and 100,001st members, after receiving their membership cards at his campaign headquarters in Paris, February 14, 2022. AFP - BERTRAND GUAY
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Valérie Pécresse finds herself under fire from critics for having taken over during her meeting the racist and conspiracy theory of the "great replacement" brandished by Éric Zemmour.
The Reconquest candidate did not ask for so much.
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Éric Zemmour is smiling.
Faced with around fifty activists gathered at his Parisian HQ, he hands over his party card to the 100,000th member who introduces herself – surprisingly well – as a disappointed activist from the Les Républicains party.
“When Eric
spoke, I said to myself
:
“but this man says everything I think”.
And I spoke with friends who said to me
:
"he says what we think and that nobody dares to say".
»
An opportunist staging the day after the
meeting of Valérie Pécresse
who took up several expressions and theses dear to the far right.
Éric Zemmour savors an ideological victory.
“
The Republican Party is doomed now.
The LRs will have to divide up and choose: some will go to Emmanuel Macron, others will come to me.
It is inevitable.
Political parties have a programmed lifespan.
If they are no longer suited to the political situation, well then they die.
»
The far-right candidate is convinced of this: voters will necessarily prefer the original to the copy.
Or put it another way: “
When you sow on the neighbor's field, it's the neighbor's field that harvests.
Polls show that Éric Zemmour currently attracts around a quarter of the voters of the right-wing candidate in 2017, François Fillon.
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To read also: The only RN senator announces his rallying to Éric Zemmour
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Presidential France 2022
Valerie Pécresse
Eric Zemmour