With distinct lines and styles, the two far-right rivals focused on the grounds of purchasing power and the defense of “popular classes”.
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Two populist meetings, the same battle for middle and popular classes. Saturday, February 5, the two far-right champions played different partitions, despite the “we are here” and the identical flags.
A Reims (Marne), the exhibition center, where Marine Le Pen was holding his presidential convention, some 4,000 people had flocked from the four corners of France. The atmosphere was that of the frontal kermasses, tricolor balloons, rock band and regional stands held by local officials National Rally (RN). The activists broke the crust in tables, delighted to meet for this first campaign meeting. “It’s family, appreciates an elected RN of the Pas-de-Calais. Marine, there is that she talks to people from home, to the people.”
Galvanized by his activists who shigned “Marine!”, the candidate led them on the car park, where was stationed a dozen flocked buses to his effigy, to symbolically launch his operation “5,000 markets”. At the rhythm of a visit a week, it will continue its local campaign these nineteen days.
At the same time, the Grand Palace of Lille filled with more than 6,000 people to offer Eric Zemmour a new demonstration of strength in sounds and lights. Here, the public was younger, more masculine, easier and inclined to claim right. The animation was less traditional than in the RN, with a quiz with humorous pretensions centered on the candidate – his favorite drink “the leftist tears” or “the red wine”?
Fracture line
Between Lille and Reims, the two audiences contrasted. “Eric Zemmour has a sociology composed of cadets of good radicalized family; Marine Le Pen, employees and unemployed”, depicts the sonar of Jerome Sainte-Marie by voluntarily forcing the line. “Zemmour is the candidate for purchasing power, those who have money, and think that the popular categories can be purchased by the values. Marine Le Pen meets the advocacy function of these popular categories, who will go to her like fish in a nasse. “From a formula, the author of popular block (deer, 2021) illustrates the distinction between these two electorates who lean to the extreme right:” The Zemmourist is in the hall, The pepinist in cooking. “
Saturday, both candidates gave body to this divide line. Eric Zemmour flattered the “heirs of workers who did not spare their efforts,” the “immigrants” of Europe who adopted “without recyprigning the language of the French”. His way of celebrating effort and work. “Here again more than elsewhere, Assistantship is an insult,” he said, denouncing “the socialist vision of poverty”. “According to them, if we are poor, then necessarily we would like to fly, loot, destroy and why not kill?, Has he fled. It’s an insult to all these modest people who have always been a duty to stay honest. “
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