Far from the major debates promised during the CVIV-19 crisis, the “small sentences”, the “clashes” and the migratory obsession punctuate the period. “Le Monde” traces this confused precamp and explores the causes.
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Among the myriad of images, what will we hold back from this beginning of the presidential campaign, of this fall where everyone is supposed to position yourself without always being declared? There is this duel of more than two hours, Thursday, September 23, between the candidate of France unsuitable (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the extreme right polemist Eric Zemmour, on BFM-TV, during which the latter assimilates the delinquency at a “jihad”. There is this “almost application” of the humorist Yassine Belattar on the plateau of “Balance your post!”, On C8, Thursday, September 30, in front of a Cyril Hanouna Hilare, as usual. There are Gilles Platret, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Republicans Party (LR), speaking, Tuesday, October 5 on CNEWS, of “ethnic purification” which would be conducted by “a Muslim block (…) in certain neighborhoods “, Before being crossed by Damien Abad, LR MPs leader.
There is also, Wednesday, October 20, this Safety and Internal Security Salon during which Mr. Zemmour will target journalists with a precision weapon – not charged – before pleading humor. Or, Monday, October 25, the same Eric Zemmour, filmed by the CNEWS cameras in Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis) and accompanied by the animator Jean-Marc Morandini, asking a Muslim woman, who came to Drancy for the Opportunity, as she herself confirmed on the plateau of “touch not to my post!” The very evening, to remove its veil. The latter obeys that it falls the tie.
In the spring, at the approach of this preamp and after a new wave of Covid-19, many electedly affirm it: the health crisis had marked the spirits and raised substantive issues. Reindustrialization, health policy, the environment … promised, the debates of the presidential election would revolve around major issues. The media acceleration of the return has swept these promises. Since the end of the summer, social and environmental issues do not emerge. On the contrary, each week drains its share of polemical phrases and brutal exchanges, which feed the information chains continuously, fed by a multitude of polls.
“Culture of the clash”
Admittedly, the preamp is confused, according to Brice Tintureier, Managing Director of Ipsos. At five months of the presidential election of 2022, Emmanuel Macron is not yet officially candidate for his re-election, the candidate of the right will not be appointed by the members the Republicans that on December 4, Eric Zemmour did not start himself yet Neither … for the sonar, the situation is no more mistaken than it was five years ago. “That there is binary confrontation, topics that come and go, and a culture of the clash, all this is not new”, is it persuaded. It is true that the “small sentences” already existed five years ago. On the image of Nicolas Sarkozy, at the time candidate for the primary of the right and the center, which offered a “double ration of fries” for Muslims refusing ham in school canteens.
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