The right candidate in the presidential election has an interest in attracting voters attempted by the far-right candidate, but it would also be delighted if it is high enough to neutralize Marine Le Pen.
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For months, he is a pebble in the party shoe the Republicans (LR). The Far Right Candidate Eric Zemmour is a political object whose LR frameworks can only do: sometimes worried by the weight he could take during this ballot, but other times as happy with his presence which could weaken in the first round the national gathering candidate (RN), Marine Le Pen.
The question of the strategy to adopt by the right candidate, Valérie Pécresse, in the face of this opponent of a new genre – former columnist, broken at the arcanes of the classical right he covered for years, and Friend of some members of the party – landed with all the more acuity following the rallying of the former number two of the LR, the member of the Loir-et-Cher Guillaume Peltier.
” Stepped “
A first weight gain at LR for Mr. Zemmour who continues to argue against his electorate and elected officials that he is the successor of the RPR. A proof also for many gateways exist as well for elected officials and for LR voters, some of which are attracted by the theses of the far-right candidate.
While continuing to fear its possible breakthrough, a portion of the right, however, considers, in private, that the maintenance of Eric Zemmour above a certain threshold could prove very useful to allow Valérie Pécresse of Skip to the second round. By nibbling the electorate of M me Le Pen, the old chronicler of Figaro could open a breach. “It is true that Eric Zemmour lowers the qualification threshold that is currently at the 2002 presidential level,” said Frederic Dabi, General Manager of the IFOP Survey Institute.
In recent days, the RN even relayed the rumor that the right could help the polemicist in his quest for sponsorships. Guest on BFM-TV-RMC against Jean-Jacques Bourdin, Wednesday, January 12, Marine Le Pen accused M me Pécresse to be “the majority shareholder” of an Eric Zemmour which would serve him “Stepped”. The entourage of the candidate LR hastened to sweep these words. “It’s a joke mounted by Zemmour. We do not do it, if we had done it, it would be seen,” says Pradié, deputy of the lot and spokesman of M me Pécresse.
lr plays the card of credibility
Beyond the question of signatures, the perspective of a wild primer capable of neutralizing one or other of the two extreme right candidates is therefore perceived with a good eye by some within LR . Especially, they think that the voters close to the right could return to the fold during a possible between-two-tours. So so it will have to convince them, insist on the regal issues until the last minute. What is already working on Valérie Pécresse, which has made security a central theme of its entry into campaign, erect, for example, expressions like the “Kärcher” used by Nicolas Sarkozy in his time. Or by proposing devices such as aggravated sentences for a crime committed in a sensitive neighborhood. In this respect, the presence of the highly right-handed member of the Alpes-Maritimes, Eric Ciotti, in the device is perceived by many as a rampart hinders the defection of voters towards the far right but attracting them too.
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