“Mrs. Pécresse is in truth a clone of Macron”, declared Eric Zemmour, this Thursday morning on Europe 1. The president of the Reconquest party, invited to the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, spoke about the rallying, still cautious, of some LRs to his candidacy.
Valérie Pécresse, the “candidate of the center”
For him, it is first of all important to understand that if Eric Ciotti made a “good score” in the primary, it is because “he claimed” from him and his “ideas”. “His voters and his activists understood very well that the ideas he defended are mine and that Ms. Pécresse was not defending the ideas of Eric Ciotti. Ms. Précresse is the candidate of the center.”
If the rallies do not take off yet, this could therefore be explained by the attempt, as much on the left as on the right, to “set up the anti-fascist theater against him”, he said, citing an expression of Lionel Jospin. “We adapt it to the most dangerous person. But the big difference is that the voters don’t walk.” Because if the elected officials and mayors do not follow him yet, it is different for the voters, welcomes the candidate.
The supports, “they will come in time”
“Today, I see it, there are practically as many voters from the National Front as voters from LR who want to support me,” said Eric Zemmour, before adding: “What counts are the voters (…) Me, I do not ask that they rally me. I simply want that one recognizes that I am right. “
Eric Zemmour is, however, not against supporting politicians, or “serious” figures that the French want. “They will come in time.” And, for him, everything will be decided after the first round of the election which will act as “primary” for the candidate.
“The polls have not decided. From a certain moment, people choose. It’s a kind of primary the first round. We saw it on the left in 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon won everything. And Benoît Hamon ended up at six. We can very well imagine a comparable development. We will see in the coming weeks. “