The candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen attacks the “crazy people” who surround Eric Zemmour. She castigates those who want to kill her for the sole purpose of preparing for the post-presidential.
Seated at the Cardinal, a brasserie at the Porte de Saint-Cloud near her Parisian HQ, Marine Le Pen displays an astonishing quiet strength. In the aftermath of Valérie Pécresse’s failed meeting, the Rassemblement candidate does not believe that the latter’s setbacks will benefit Eric Zemmour. “Nothing worries me,” she says, sucking on her inseparable electronic cigarette. Zemmour has already taken the maximum at home. The daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen is impatient for another reason. “Macron is still not in the campaign and I am alone in the ring. This creates a false flat for me in the polls, ”she persuades herself. Meaning: she doesn’t want to waste her strength “tapping” Zemmour and Pécresse. “They play placed, I play winning. I’m not campaigning to go to the second round, I’m campaigning to beat Macron, ”she says. Implied again: she has already given with the first round campaigns.
Candidate for the third time, Marine Le Pen has undoubtedly changed her approach to the presidential competition. It has obviously muted some of the traditional themes of the RN for a more social approach and focused on the question of purchasing power. In hollow, she would develop the opposite state of mind of that of her rival Eric Zemmour who pounded her morning, noon and evening. Not to mention the poaching operation of RN executives which is turning into Chinese torture. “Zemmour is in the process of reconstructing the glass ceiling of the FN of yesteryear. To hear him, he would be both “the ultra liberal right” and “very brutal on the sovereign and immigration””. On arrival, continues Le Pen, the former journalist from “Figaro” remobilizes the left against him and cannot hope to gather more than 35-38% of the votes in the second round when the strategy of demonizing the RN allows Marine Le Pen to climb to 46-47% of the vote in the second round according to the surveys.
Marion Maréchal, rallying in mid-March
Attacked from all sides, Marine Le Pen defends herself by castigating without moderation the “nuts” who surround Eric Zemmour. Rather than suffer departures, she decided to take the lead and fire the “traitors”. First “head to fall”: that of the MEP Nicolas Bay guilty of transmitting “strategic information” to the Zemmour camp. It is no longer a wild primary within the extreme right but downright the cold war where all shots are allowed! Besieged, the candidate responds. According to her, this flurry of rallies has only one goal: in private, she believes that her rival’s electorate (which overlaps with part of her own) is made up of “revengeful” who only think of venting first round of a presidential election. In short, these humiliated right-wingers – from supporters of the Manif pour tous to Fillonist voters who believe they were robbed in 2017 to identitarians who would use the Zemmour candidacy as an “exhaust”.
This war to the death between the two clans is far from over. Marine Le Pen is preparing for the formalization of the rallying of her niece Marion Maréchal to Eric Zemmour in mid-March. By then, she knows that there will be others, in particular the proponents of a more conservative line, more comfortable with the “excesses” of Eric Zemmour, in the words of Jean’s daughter. – Marie Le Pen. Incredible line quarrel.
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