The far-right candidate was traveling to Eure-et-Loire on Friday to try to get promises of signatures.
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The team of Eric Zemmour rubbed his hands in advance – the mayor of Bonneval, barely 5,000 inhabitants in the heart of the Eure-et-Loir, went on Friday, January 7, and in front of the TVs, give His sponsorship to their candidate and show the example. We had seen things in great: the former journalist of Figaro granted an apartness to this influential mayor, president of the community of communes, departmental advisor, and even former senator; Tracking a press conference, a little tour in the village and a meal with elected officials. With an Eric Zemmour who did not favor her praises on “the Venice of Beauce” and the charms of rurality.
The Mayor Joël Billard quickly shifted the enthusiasms by ensuring that he had “in principle to welcome all the candidates who wished it”, but that he had made the decision to sponsor anyone “. Good. Eric Zemmour has spun in the tiny town of Villampuy (300 inhabitants), in the best known land: his mayor, Vincent Lhopiteau, had come to himself propose his signature even before Zemmour is a candidate. In 2017, he gave his sponsorship to Philippe Poutou (new anticapitalist party), “in the name of democracy”. Today he chose Zemmour. “And why not? Replied the mayor. His convictions are mine.”
The sponsorship hunting has become a major concern for the far-right candidate, but the record of his tour in the Châteaudun area is slim. “Some promises” dropped during the meal, “Let’s say between 2 and 5”, Suitable Antoine Diers, the Deputy Director of the Strategy. Eric Zemmour assures having got 300 promises, he needs the double, to be sure to have at least 500 in March.
“We can not consider that we do not have them, but it’s disturbing, recognizes Sarah Knafo, the director of the campaign strategy and companion of Eric Zemmour. At first, the mayors came from them -Mims to propose their sponsorships. Now, the elected officials say they are afraid that a grant is removed, to have trouble with the region. And it is dragging, say, since mid-December. “”
“We do not ask LR to help us”
Eric Zemmour displays a confidence and unalterable good humor. Moreover, in a galette of kings planned for 40 people, it is he who lucky has had the bean. However, he had the watch launched on Europe 1 to David Lisnard, Mayor The Republicans (RSA) of Cannes and President of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), “a remarkable and democratic person”, had indicated the polemicist. “I propose to ask the mayors to make a pool of signatures and give the signatures to all the candidates who are at a minimum, I do not know, at 5 or 8% in the polls, it is he who will decide, had said the candidate. I think it would be a democratic measure and I’m not just talking for me. “
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