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6:24 p.m., March 04, 2022
During his first Agricultural Show in the costume of a presidential candidate, Eric Zemmour returned to the Ukrainian situation. For the ex-journalist, “geostrategically, we are sucked towards the East by this war while our problems are in the South”.
“The war” in Ukraine “diverts attention from major issues for France in the next five years,” said candidate Éric Zemmour on Friday during his visit to the Paris Agricultural Show. “Geostrategically, we are sucked towards the East by this war while our problems are in the South”, he added, wanting to speak of immigration and “clash of civilizations”. The candidate Reconquest! in the presidential election wanted to make a correction after having indicated at first, in the spans of the living room, that the conflict in Ukraine “distracts from the real clash of civilizations. Our fundamental problems are in the South, not in the East , it is immigration, terrorism, jihadism”, “civilizational problems”, he had said.
The candidate is counting on his next meeting
He spoke again about an hour later to remove the word “distracted” to avoid any misunderstanding in the midst of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and to prefer the expression “diverts attention”.
Down in the polls and criticized by his opponents for remarks deemed pro-Russian, Éric Zemmour wandered for a long time with his supporters at the Agricultural Show. The entourage of the candidate Reconquest! also relies heavily on Sunday’s meeting in Toulon, and the announced presence of Marion Maréchal, the niece of her rival RN Marine Le Pen, to relaunch.