The far-right candidate has suffered a clear erosion in polls. Toothed between a line close to the Kremlin and a political entourage that begins to worry, he looks for the parade.
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“Air hole”, “bad pass” and even “nightmare”: the war in Ukraine worries within the Eric Zemmour campaign team. The nationalist candidate declined several points in the surveys to land at 13% of voting intentions, in the sixth wave of the Ipsos-Sopra Steria study for Le Monde, behind Marine Le Pen (14.5%) and Emmanuel Macron (30.5%). His entourage is now divided between the “political” circle, seized by the doubt, and the “geopoliticals” pro-Kremlin.
All his supporters agree that the exit was hazardous. “Russia, I take the bet, will not invade Ukraine,” he said in December 2021. “Lost, cowardly Jean-Marie Le Pen at the Mobile manor of Watchout. He made a carre fault. is the mark of a dubious judgment that should not promote it. “If he had supported Mr. Zemmour on” the obsession with the inclusion “of the disabled, who had telephoned him to thank him, the founder of the front. National (FN) keeps this time from helping him.
His friends squeezed Eric Zemmour to get small. “Shut up, prayed Paul-Marie Costeux, Thursday, February 24th. Do not fall into the trap that is to say what’s in your head.” Zemmour “condemns” Russian aggression ” but persists to hold NATO for “responsible”. Eager to “give something” to Vladimir Putin, according to his words, he opposes the sanctions and delivery of arms to the Ukrainians, proposes to leave the integrated command of NATO and to sign a treaty excluding any entry of Ukraine in the alliance.
Meeting with a close to Putin
Only to say against the reception of Ukrainian refugees, he persists, despite the favorable opinion and the commitments of France in terms of asylum. “The Ukrainians do not want to come, they want to stay near theirs”, he maintains, Wednesday, March 2, on CNews … Opinion of his campaign team and even his Identity, activist for Christian Europe and crafted by the Chechens of Ramzan Kadyrov.
These floraments are linked to his geopolitical vision turned to “the ally” Russian, but also result from an obsessive campaign strategy: denouncing a “big replacement” and celebrate traditionalisal values. How to erase one day a patiently built line over the years? His French suicide (Albin Michel, 2014) stood on the bedside table of the former Russian ambassador in France, Alexandre Orlov, who detected “the truth of today’s France”, relates Nicolas Hénin in Russian France . Investigation of Putin networks (FAYARD, 2016).
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