Presidential 2022: “Éric Zemmour is there to clear the way for Valérie Pécresse”, attacks Jordan Bardella

“Éric Zemmour is there to prevent” Marine Le Pen to win. On December 16, the candidate of the Reconquête party estimated that “if the LRs do this tactical stupidity” to prohibit their elected officials from sponsoring him, thus preventing him from obtaining the 500 signatures necessary to run, “Ms. Le Pen will be at 25% and Ms. Pécresse will not be in the second round”. Since in the RN camp, there is little doubt about the little game of the former polemicist.

On January 12, Marine Le Pen thus accused him of being a “step” to favor, by his candidacy, the candidate LR. “If Éric Zemmour is there to make Valérie Pécresse win, then he must admit it”, launched the leader of the RN. “Valérie Pécresse is its majority shareholder.”

Credited with 18 to 16% of voting intentions, according to a daily Ifop-Fiducial poll for LCI, Paris Match and Sud Radio, Marine Le Pen and Valérie Pécresse are fighting for a place in the second round, behind Emmanuel Macron and ahead of Éric Zemmour. , which is stagnating around 12%. “We look at the polls from afar, but they still indicate a trend. Éric Zemmour is there to clear the way for Valérie Pécresse”, said the acting president of RN Jordan Bardella, guest of Elizabeth Martichoux on LCI, Friday January 21. “He also said it, if he doesn’t have the signatures, it will be Marine Le Pen in the second round.”

“Éric Zemmour does not pass the first round of the presidential election in any poll. He is in a testimonial candidacy. He is credited with 11 to 12% of voting intentions, almost equal with Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He is there to prevent Marine Le Pen to win the presidential election, assured the far-right MEP. “His candidacy is there to allow Valérie Pécresse to go ahead and meet up with Emmanuel Macron” in the second round. “I say to all patriots, to all those who do not want to see Emmanuel Macron re-elected or his twin who is Valérie Pécresse to vote useful and to vote massively for Marine Le Pen from the first round to give her a very broad dynamic in favor of the second round.”

For the acting president of the RN, “Marine Le Pen is the only candidate from the national camp who, first of all, can reach the second round, which is not the case for Éric Zemmour, in free fall in the polls and can above all beat Emmanuel Macron. “In all the voting intentions, in all the polls that are done, with the precaution that must obviously be taken, Marine Le Pen is given almost on a par with Emmanuel Macron. We are on 55/45, which makes , with the margins of error, that we are on very similar voting intentions”, he insisted. According to him, “Marine Le Pen can win”.

This is not the opinion of Jérôme Rivière. Wednesday, January 19, the leader of the RN MEPs defected to join the camp of Éric Zemmour, judging that “Marine Le Pen is not in a position to win the presidential election”. “You can say that when you are an opponent, but it is not true”, replied Jordan Bardella, before dwelling on the desertion of the now ex-spokesman of Marine Le Pen for the foreign press to join the former polemicist.

“The least of the corrections, the least of the respect we owe our voters, is perhaps to return the mandate entrusted to him by the voters of the RN“, he estimated. “When you leave a party, you have to have the courage and the honesty to follow through and resign from your mandate.”