Europe 1 with AFP 3:38 p.m., April 01, 2022, modified at 3:39 p.m., April 01, 2022

On the sidelines of a trip to the Rungis wholesale market, candidate Eric Zemmour accused the media of having shown "benevolence" and "complacency" with his rival in the presidential election, Marine Le Pen.

According to a latest poll, Marine Le Pen is credited with 21% of voting intentions while Eric Zemmour is credited with 9.5%.

The far-right candidate Eric Zemmour accused the media of having shown "benevolence" and "complacency" with his rival Marine Le Pen, on Friday on the sidelines of a trip to the Rungis wholesale market (Val-de-France). -Marl).

Concluding his visit to Rungis with a breakfast with the press, he assured that he had had "media logic" to "push Marine Le Pen", during this campaign, with "benevolence" and "complacency".

"But Macron has whistled the end of recess. He has summoned you to re-demonize Marine Le Pen", he added to journalists, as the polls narrow in the event of a second round between the RN candidate and the president. outgoing, nine days before the first round of the presidential election.

The day before, Emmanuel Macron had attacked the "extreme right tandem" Marine Le Pen-Eric Zemmour, regretting that their ideas were "trivialized".

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"Twenty years ago, the media that you were said 'it's terrible, republican front'. The republican political forces said 'never'. There is no longer that reaction," he exclaimed. .

"People (...) have looked away. They say: it's more sympathetic... so don't be surprised," added the president-candidate.

Eric Zemmour credited with 9.5% of voting intentions

"Every time I had a successful meeting, they found me shit", also protested Eric Zemmour during this breakfast, criticizing the controversy over the "Macron-Assassin" chanted by part of the crowd during of his Trocadero meeting last Sunday.

"We distort what really happened and all the fervor" that there was, lamented the Reconquest candidate!.

In a BVA poll for Orange and RTL published on Friday, Emmanuel Macron is credited with 27% of voting intentions (-1 point in one week), ahead of Marine Le Pen 21% (+2 points), then Jean-Luc Mélenchon (15 .5%, +1 point).

Valérie Pécresse and Eric Zemmour are tied at 9.5%.