Victor Chabert 2:17 p.m., February 14, 2022

The Reconquest party of presidential candidate Éric Zemmour has exceeded 100,000 members.

This Monday morning he handed over their cards in person to the very latest arrivals since they are two women, former members of the Republicans.

Quite a symbol for the polemicist.

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Éric Zemmour celebrates the 100,000th member of his Reconquest party.

Or rather a member.

This Monday morning the candidate for the presidential election gave him his card in person, just like the 101,000 member since this is also a woman.

And it's all in the symbol: one of the weak points of the polemicist is precisely with the female electorate, and they are also both former adherents of the Republicans, the target of Éric Zemmour. 

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He indeed intends to siphon off the party of Valérie Pécresse, and wanted to give them their card in their own hands, insisting on the course of Corinne and Jamila.

"Tell me where you come from," questioned the Reconquest candidate.

"I joined the UMP in 2009 and then I stayed with the Republicans," explained the first.

"My name is Jamila, I am 36 years old. I started my political commitment very young and I was an activist of the UDF. Then I went to the UMP, then LR", continues the second. 

A base mainly composed of former LR ensures Zemmour

The opportunity for Éric Zemmour to insist on what he predicts as the end of the Republicans, a party which, according to him, would no longer have any reason to exist and whose electorate is now divided between En Marche and Reconquête .

This sequence also allows him to insist on the balance within his movement which wants to achieve the union of straight lines.

After the rallying of FN Senator Stéphane Ravier on Sunday and concerns even in his own camp about a possible disproportion between more defectors from the National Rally than from the Republicans, the candidate insists: his base is made up above all of former LRs.

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With 100,000 members Eric Zemmour wants to show that his party will weigh in the long term.

By way of comparison, before their congress the Republicans had 80,000 members.

They then rose to 150,000.