In the room, the majority of former LR voters were present. On stage, the speakers multiplied the attacks against Valérie Pécresse. Eric Zemmour is not there, but left a video message to greet his supporters. Monday evening, more than 350 people came to the Boulogne-Billancourt theater in the Hauts-de-Seine. On the bill of this meeting which had for theme “the union of the rights”, heart of the strategy of the candidate, the young Stanislas Rigault, boss of Generation Z, and Antoine Diers, spokesperson of the party “Reconquest”.
Tonight the party # Reconquest made his first big public meeting without Eric Zemmour in the Hauts-de-Seine, with Antoine Diers and Stanislas Rigault on the bill. On the program: the union of rights. @ Europe1pic.twitter.com/OtonOM3Hyc
– Victor Chabert (@ victorchabert1) January 10, 2022
Valérie Pécresse, target of Zemmour executives
On the program, interventions by national and local executives, and numerous salutes against Valérie Pécresse. Hammering the loyalty of “Reconquest” in the values of a strong right, Stanislas Rigault calls to “beware of those who betrayed”, and attacks, without naming her, Valérie Pécresse. “Those who demonstrated with the Manif pour Tous, and who then took a stand for the PMA”, or even “those who leave their party because they are too far to the right, and return at the right time, mouth to heart”.
Antoine Diers, a few interventions later, continued: “Valérie Pécresse, she is the one who, hardly appointed in this small congress, indicated that she would not take up Eric Ciotti’s ideas, because it is all the same. super on the right, “ironically that she took over” le Kärcher “from Nicolas Sarkozy a few days ago. And the spokesperson to launch into an imitation of the former President of the Republic to drive the point home: “In 15 days, she will speak like that I think!”. The room rejoices.
A room composed mainly of former LR voters
Among the 350 people present, they are a majority to be former sympathizers of the Republicans, and to feel anger towards their previous party. A former LR voter denounces “a party which betrays its voters on all values” and predicts a fate similar to the Socialist Party, “it must be shattered”. Others are more measured, and call on supporters of the right-wing party to join them. All hope that the appointment of the former number 2 of the Republicans, Guillaume Peltier, as vice-president of “Reconquest”, will make it possible to accelerate transfers and rallies.
80,000 members claimed by Reconquête
With or without Éric Zemmour, “Reconquête” intends to increase the number of meetings across France in the coming weeks. In addition to meetings and trips by the candidate himself, public meetings of his executives, activists are invited to increase the number of “apartment meetings” of ten people to talk about the candidacy and the program. The young movement now claims 80,000 paying members.