Cannes: Eric Zemmour draws on sources of lepenism

The extreme right candidate in the presidential election has called for a long time to the Union between the voters of Republicans and the national rally, in the Alpes-Maritimes, while multiplying the references to the national front era Jean-Marie le Pen.

by

of the cauldron of 4,300 supporters at the Palais des Victories of Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes), Saturday, January 22, the lepenist slogan “We are at home”, little by little vanishing of the meetings of the national rally (Rn), is mounted More once to Eric Zemmour. As always the two fists lifted, the extreme right candidate has surveyed the scene with its fresh rallied: Gilbert Collard, Europuté RN propelled honorary honorary replay! ; Jérôme River, former leader of the RN delegation to the European Parliament become Vice President of the Party; Guillaume Peltier, former number two of LR, same title. A casting intended to illustrate his key message in the Alpes-Maritimes: the call to this “union of the rights” he has been professing for decades – voters of the RN and those of the Republicans, not to mention the abstentists – all those, said -il, who “believed in Le Pen, Pasqua, Villiers or Sarkozy”.

from left to right: Philippe de Villiers, Eric Zemmour, Gilbert Collard and Guillaume Peltier, Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes), January 22, 2022.

In a mirror game, Eric Zemmour has applauded the voters of the “National Front”, “Brothers”, then those of Republicans, “taken hostage by centrist politicians”. He criticized the distinction between “Right Republican” and “a right too extremist”, which his partisans know like the “trap of François Mitterrand”, before exhorting to “abolish the sanitary cord”. This rhetoric is not without reminding that of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who did not cease in his time to urge the “unity of nationals, right forces”, to overcome Jacques Chirac’s cord policy. On a wink, Zemmour praised his support Jacques Peyrat, the former mayor of Nice, who had stored in his pocket the National Front label in 1994 to conquer the town hall: “You already embodied this union of the right that I Door today, “said the candidate for the address of the friend and companion of Indochina de Le Pen: expected in the VIP square, Jacques Peyrat was finally absent, but the campaign team of Eric Zemmour did not notice that afterwards.

Raise the 1980s’ frontal program

Carried by two hours of walking to the Provencal Forville market, the same morning, first successful campaign visit in contact with the population reached by a glass of rosé wine from the field “The Sources of the Navy”, Eric Zemmour has rented The “so-called Mediterranean heat” of his audience, before pretending to give a voice to “Silent France” which “never spea” but who knows how to say “not to ideology, lies, to the system”. An antisystem speech that he is always friared. But then, he seemed to raise the border program from the 1980s more than his nationalist refrain from a “big replacement”.

You have 55.91% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.

/Media reports.