In Metz, Eric Zemmour tries to remobilize his troops "against all odds"

The pretender to the Elysée has not completely filled up at the Arènes, a room with more than 4,000 seats.

His camp pointed out that the time of the meeting had been brought forward for the televisions, to 5:45 p.m. rather than 6:30 p.m., and that Friday penalizes the workers.

During his speech, Eric Zemmour sent back to back Emmanuel Macron, quoted sixteen times, and Marine Le Pen, criticized nine times, hoping to avoid a new duel between his two rivals.

“Today, they are trying to steal the election from you. They want to reinstate the Le Pen-Macron match that you no longer wanted, this final without any suspense, this wrestling show where everything is rigged, between the “eternal teenager and the eternal loser”, launched the presidential candidate, who has peaked between 11 and 13% of the voting intentions and has been going through a delicate sequence since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.

"They are organizing the re-election of Macron, and it is Marine Le Pen who will give him the short ladder. She has already done it once, she knows her role by heart", hammered Eric Zemmour.

"Marine Le Pen cannot win and never will: she lost in 2012, she lost in 2017, she will lose in 2022, in 2027, in 2032. We are tired of these defeats!" -He insists.

The candidate Reconquest!

conceded having "learned" from a few "errors" in the campaign, sometimes conceding "one sentence too many" or not having "not always, I admit, managed to keep my calm in the face of the injustice of certain attacks".

"I think I can humbly say that I am a better candidate today than when I declared my candidacy," he said.

"Today, I have no doubt, I am more lucid, more solid, more true. (...). From each controversy they invented for us, we came out stronger. Once again, my dear friends , we are moving forward against all odds!” he said.

Previously, the former RN Jean Messiha had castigated "the only thing that disfigures our country, the leprosy of radical Islam. (...) For the left when you dress like an 8th century Bedouin, c is progressivism," he said.

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