Zemmour, aka Voldemort
In the blue sky of the Champagne capital, everywhere the threatening shadow of Éric Zemmour, alias Voldemort, the one whose name was never to be pronounced. Difficult for all that to forget when, 200 km further north, this brother who had become an enemy was at the same time slapping in lands traditionally promised to the National Rally. “His only goal is to sabotage my campaign,” fumed Marine Le Pen before going up to the podium. Where she does not say a word, however, unleashing her poisoned arrows for an hour on the only “contemptuous and depressing president of an Orange-macronic France”. Back to nationalist fundamentals – immigration and security – mornings of a good dose of social proposals. “Macron is my opponent, Zemmour is only a competitor,” she warned.
“At home we argue to find out if Zemmour is not better than her”
In this finally full room, the candidate nevertheless will not have preached only to the convinced. “We come to see if she still has the niaque before giving her one last chance”, warned Jocelyne, historical activist and despite everything a bit disillusioned. “Because it’s not just the mess in the party, at home too we argue to know if Zemmour is not better than her. “And her husband to add:” I think he’s an upstart, he rings false. We have the same ideas, but he will be unable to put them into practice. Afterwards, it’s true that Marine becomes too nice. »
“Let him do the housework”
A sign of these changing times, once so quick to disrupt the movements of Marine Le Pen, her opponents were only a silent handful yesterday in Reims. Tired of “sound and fury”, would Marine Le Pen have been heard beyond her expectations? “We finally understand that I do not look like the caricature that has been made of me”, and this now begins the constitution of a republican front in the second round”, wants, on the contrary, to believe the one who remains convinced of having more more votes to win on the side of Pécresse than Zemmour.
Coming from Lot-et-Garonne, Romain and Yoan say they are reassured by the “wiser” positioning of their candidate.
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While Marie-Caroline – the eldest sister – herself placed the grognards of the party in the front rows, the youngest then continued discreetly behind the scenes her chore of dirty laundry with the family. That of a Le Pen clan standing together again after having made political mourning for a niece of whom they have “no news”. And the candidate, in front of a few journalists, to again charge this Zemmour camp, which she believes has become a refuge for religious fundamentalists and other Nazillons. “Characters that I fired without weakness, sometimes opposing leaders of my own party. I advise Zemmour to clean up, otherwise his voters will have unpleasant surprises. »
Something to reassure Romain and Yoan, young thirty-somethings from Lot-et-Garonne. “That she calmed down her speech convinced me to take part in a meeting for the first time. Acknowledging having been seduced by Éric Zemmour for a time, this air conditioning technician says he was quickly disillusioned from the inside. “I went to meetings, and I found myself surrounded by young people all nostalgic for a Jean-Marie Le Pen whom they see reincarnated. Extremists whose only goal is to bring down Marine. But the reconstruction of the right, we don’t care. Yoan, an ambulance driver in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, also admits his relief. “We can see that it is going better and better in the eyes of the French. The proof, in eleven hours on board a bus flocked to his effigy, we did not even get pissed off once. Now, it should follow in the polls. »