The far-right candidate held a meeting in the North, where he explained how he had to restore purchasing power to the French, while scratching Martine Aubry, the Mayor of Lille, who came to manifest against his coming.
Le Monde with AFP
A few hours before Eric Zemmour’s second largest political appointment, at the Zenith of Lille, about 300 people had answered the call to demonstrate Mayor PS Martine Aubry and SOS-Racism, call supported by twenty parties, unions and associations. This hostile hosting committee did not prevent the extreme right candidate from speaking on Saturday, February 5, in front of more than 6,000 people who came to hear his proposals for the purchasing power of the French.
“She dared to say that Eric Zemmour was not welcome in Lille, but she gets on who?”, wrestled Gilbert Collard, the transfuge of the national rally, on the platform, before the Eric Zemmour arrival in front of the thousands of activists who have conspired the socialist mayor. “It’s she who is no longer welcome to Lille for a long time! According to her, we represent racism and extreme right. There are here neither racist nor people of extreme right but French who Love France, Martine! “
A pique at the old Minister of Employment and the solidarity of Lionel Jospin, resumed by Eric Zemmour upon his arrival on the platform around 4:30 pm “By coming as many, know that you have annoying someone important here. By being 8,000 in Lille, you hurt Martine Aubry, that’s not what you do, “he joined before declining his proposals to” increase Purchasing power “.
Prime” zero load “and cutting aid to foreigners
“We will stop wasting public money, we will stop financing our own replacement, as it is also funded by your money, hammered the former CNEWS columnist with reference to the racist theory of the great replacement. And finally, we will reward work and merit. “
In addition to the removal of the royalty for the public audiovisual financing of 138 euros per year, Eric Zemmour has proposed “to stop financing immigration so that the social model becomes truly French”. To do this, it promises to “put an end to the requests of asils” in France and to “cut social aid to extra-European foreigners” by reserving access to social housing only to the French.
Former Figaro journalist has also promised a new measure to businesses. “I propose the zero bonus load to increase income. It is a premium that can go up to three months of net salary. A 13 e , a 14 e EVEN MONTH SUPPLY FOR THE EMPLOYER OR FOR THE EMPLOYER, which will reward merit. “Objective claimed: put” end to the wage scandal too low, “he advanced, without encrypting the cost of these measurements.
The device reminds the exceptional purchasing power bonus (PEPA), called “Prime Macron”, a measure created in 2019 and has since returned. Nearly 4 million employees touched this premium in 2021, with an average payment of 506 euros. “If the macron premium without charge or taxes, voted during the COVID was a good thing, so why limit it to this point? Why limit this premium to [a ceiling of] 1,000 euros for most companies?”, S is interviewed Eric Zemmour.
He also promised to return to the “tax exemption of overtime”, a “excellent idea” of Nicolas Sarkozy, deleted under the chairmanship of François Hollande.