Mr Zemmour’s increasingly affirmed willingness to report to the presidential election convinced the head of state to launch the counter-offensive in a more frank way.
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Their diagnosis has changed. Their degree of response also. There are still two months ago, Emmanuel Macron and his faithful were suspicious of the irruption of Eric Zemmour in the political game, without targeting the front. While the candidacy of the far-right polemist in the presidential election of 2022 seemed still uncertain, the executive and majority officials endeavored not to answer him, so as not to bring credit to his outrages. . It was then appropriate to ignore it to try to marginalize it.
But the game has changed. The increasingly affirmed willingness of Mr. Zemmour to introduce themselves to the Elysian vote and his breakthrough in the polls, to appear in certain opinion studies as a possible opponent of Mr. Macron during the second round, convinced The latter to launch the counter-offensive in a more frank way. While it was content to make alllates to the cantor of the national decline, in recent weeks, pointing to the finger the “nostalgic”, the head of state clearly refers to the author of French suicide (Albin Michel , 2014), on November 9, during his television speech, when he called the French to “resist” “obscurantism” and “return of nationalism”.
A change of tone, which illustrates a strategic shift, five months of the presidential election. After allowing him the free field, the macronists have given themselves to “disassemble” in a methodical way the speech of Mr. Zemmour. “Do not ignore it but respond to him on the merits,” have filed the lieutenants of the Head of State, after two meetings aimed at determining the attitude to follow the polemicist: the first, during From the Executive Board of the Republic (LRM), on October 25, then at a meeting on 4 November, in particular the spokesperson of the Government, Gabriel Attal, the General Delegate of LRM, Stanislas Guerini, and the Lead Lead of Mapronists, Christophe Castaner. All agreed that we had to raise the tone. “We must fight it on the merits but also on the values, summarizes the spokesperson for MPs LRM, Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade (MP e French riding of abroad). Deconstruct His affirmations, his vision of France. “By opposing, in particular, another historical reference framework.
A follower of” historical revisionism “
Eric Zemmour seeks to rehabilitate the figure of the Petain Marshal, ensuring that he would have “protected French Jews” during the occupation? “Jewish children did not ask the question of whether the Marshal reigned in Vichy on a puppet state, the orders of the occupant, was there to protect them. We know that he was their enemy and the active accomplice. of their arrest, “said the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, on November 14, during a speech before the representative Council of the Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF), calling for” never to confuse “this France” accomplice and responsible “With” that of London “.
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