Ithey dare everything! In the name of the defense of purchasing power, which has become the number one concern of the French, Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen have embarked on a race to unravel the French social model. The offensive is obviously not assumed as such. It is carried out in the name of defending the popular electorate, which makes it even more pernicious. In 2017, Marine Le Pen had achieved scores with this category of voters to make her competitors green with envy: she had obtained nearly 40% of the worker vote, and convinced a third of the employees to join her. It is this jackpot that Eric Zemmour is trying to steal from her in an attempt to dethrone her and at the same time marginalize the candidate Les Républicains, Valérie Pécresse. The match takes place under the gaze of a left that is both flabbergasted and powerless. Eric Zemmour had come to challenge her in Lille, Saturday February 5, by throwing to Martine Aubry: “ We are at home. » A handful of hours later, Marine Le Pen went one better in Reims.
Basically, the two extremists display a diametrically opposed economic logic. The first is liberal Poujade tendencies. Zemmour worries about “Magic Money” generated by the “whatever it takes” policy. He denounces “the obese State which wastes public money and lures the voter with public checks “. His definition of purchasing power goes like this: “It’s the money you have left when the state stops taking everything from you. »
The second is more expensive: Marine Le Pen wants to strengthen the army, the school, the hospital, promises to support families, single women, the disabled, caregivers and more generally this France of the forgotten that she claims to represent. . The two come together, however, in the designation of scapegoats accused of having perverted the solidarity system. They are the ones who will have to pay.
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Three enemies are in their sights: immigrants first, whom they want to kick out of France by accusing them of eating the wool off the backs of the French. “We are financing the great replacement at the cost of our great downgrading”, strangles Eric Zemmour, while Marine Le Pen reactivates the theme of “migratory subversion” by designating “overcrowded hospitals” or the lack of social housing for “nationals”.
The “recipients” are their second target, although we don’t really know who they are. “Assistance is an insult”, protests Eric Zemmour, when Marine Le Pen, on the same wavelength, promises all her support to young people who are settling into working life. Finally, there are fraudsters of all kinds, invisible and supposedly prolific masses who will have to be made to give up. The candidate evaluates the jackpot at 15 billion euros. Her rival talks about “several tens of billions of euros”, which she claims to recover by creating an ad hoc ministry if she is elected president.
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