The presidential election candidate will discuss with Bruno the Mayor, Minister of the Economy, Thursday evening on France 2. It has so far not exposed to these subjects he masters less well.
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Often, extreme right candidates prefer not to venture on the economic ground. Marine Le Pen the first. When it does, it gives its arguments a social and nationalist coloring. Like his rival, Eric Zemmour, who will discuss the Minister of the Government of Bruno the Mayor on France 2, Thursday, December 9, rechigate this field in which it is less comfortable than in the field. regalien. “Radical right-wing parties are traditionally low niche parties on the economy, decrypts Gilles Ivaldi, CNRS research officer at CEVIPOF and specialist from the radical right party. They mainly work cultural issues. This is the case of ‘Eric Zemmour, which is virtually mono-thematic with immigration. “
The latter has so far not exposed, advancing some fairly classic proposals for tax cuts for businesses, administrative simplification, and load relief to support purchasing power. “Zemmour’s ideas, it’s a classic sovereignist program, more like that the Republican Party executives (LR)”, abounds Mathieu Plane, economist at the French observatory of economic conditions, for whom ” From an economic point of view, Eric Ciotti was more radical than Zemmour “.
Enhancing the work, the industry and the national preference, however, the former polemist positions these themes as an issue of civilization. Companies, artisans, employees, engineers and workers are the “levers of French power”, the “way to safeguard our way of life and our civilization,” he detailed at a meeting in Bordeaux mid-November. In his eyes, the “economic war” is “as undeniable that the war of civilization”, because the “decline leads to our impoverishment but also our decommissioning in the concert of nations”, he summarized. To support this supposed decline, Eric Zemmour urgently brandished the same indicator, also put forward by Michel Barnier during the Congress of the Right: GDP per capita, which is progressing less quickly in France than in Germany or the United States. Proof, according to him, that collective wealth decreases and that it is threatened by too dynamic immigration.
A subject “Very clevant”
However, Eric Zemmour remained for the relatively evasive time on solutions. Exercise is far from simple for the candidate who seeks to expand his electorate, because the economy “It’s very clevy, pursues Gilles Ivaldi. If he goes too right, he loses the popular electorate He seeks to rally, if he goes too much left, he loses the support he has in the more bourgeois classes. He therefore has any interest in maintaining this form of ambiguity that allows him to continue to surf the wave. ‘He created “.
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