Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous d’Europe 1/ CNews/ The echoes, Eric Zemmour, president of Reconquête!, returned to the surprise appointment of Rachida Dati to the Ministry of Culture this Thursday. By joining the government of Gabriel Attal, this major political figure of the right was excluded from the Les Républicains party. Criticizing the fact that many LR personalities have joined Emmanuel Macron’s party in recent years, Eric Zemmour called on right-wing voters to join Reconquest!. “You have been betrayed, you have been ridiculed, you have been abandoned. Your home today is Reconquest!”, he declared during the Grand Rendezvous.
According to him, Rachida Dati “embodies a certain state of mind of most of the leaders of the Republicans. I would say, as they say themselves, that the right is the right and the center and especially the center. They have betrayed the right for 40 years and all that remains, for the most part, are centrists,” says Eric Zemmour. “Madame Dati is the perfect incarnation of what I have just said: she was still the most popular with LR supporters after Nicolas Sarkozy. But obviously, Madame Dati is making fun of LR supporters, because she went to Macron She herself said that making an agreement with Macron was the kiss of death for the Republicans.”
“Today, voting and supporting LR means voting and supporting a future minister of Macron”
For Eric Zemmour, the new Minister of Culture is not the only one to have “betrayed” the Republicans. “Renaud Muselier has a very funny remark. He says ‘soon, there will be more LR executives in the government than at LR’. I think he is right. I think that today an LR leader who is not not a minister, he’s someone who hasn’t been asked to be a minister. That’s what’s serious. I consider, to paraphrase Renaud Muselier, that there will soon be more LR voters at Reconquête! than at LR […]. Today, voting and supporting LR means voting and supporting a future Macron minister,” insists the president of Reconquête!.
But according to Eric Zemmour, some LR would be “much closer to Reconquête! than to Emmanuel Macron. During the electoral campaign, Guillaume Peltier, who was the party’s number two, joined me.” He also cites “François-Xavier Bellamy, Nadine Morano, Bruno Retailleau, even Eric Ciotti or Olivier Marleix… Now, it’s up to them to choose too. It’s up to them to know what they should do and where they must go. The path is marked out.”
Will he extend his hand to them? “Absolutely”, he concludes at the microphone of the Grand Rendez-vous.