During a more gloomy meeting than usual, in the Great East, the far-right candidate called his supporters to mobilize in the last straight line.
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The stripped grapes lies on the table, in the METZ arena lodge, Friday, March 18, and recalls that Eric Zemmour has swallowed whole clusters in the fall, at the beginning of his electoral marathon. At twenty-three days of the first round, the atmosphere changed: the reconquest candidate! is depressed in a leather sofa, shortly after one of his last meetings bringing together 4,000 participants. “I’m sure I’ll be in the second round,” he says in front of the press. I believe it’s more than ever. “If the question is asked, it is that in the room next door, his Teams share small ovens as “the tone has changed” and “Everyone is tired” after seven months of the countryside.
In fact, the meeting of Metz was the reverse reflection of Villepinte – his first great meeting of December 5th. Eric Zemmour mobilized the same rhetoric complotist against a mysterious “they” embodying a hostile system. But the militant atmosphere, she seemed anesthetized: few cheers, sometimes polished applause, “ouh!” Dusk … The flags were hardly stirring, the public was not rising. “It’s ok, it’s not bad. It’s the east, not Toulon”, Positive Olivier Ubéda, Master of the Meetings of Eric Zemmour. “Is Zemmour still your candidate?”, Had he harangued a little earlier to heat an too wise room, as if the answer was not going well.
“They” oppose, in Eric Zemmour’s mouth – always very acclaimed when entering the scene – to “those who say no”. As a distant replica of Villepinte, the populist candidate has spun the theme of the “alone against all”. “We are ready to save the truth to save France, whatever our opponents say, he warned. We will never hide a truth to please journalists or surgeners. They will not do the law!” While It is given sharp decline in opinion investigations, he targeted the survey institutes who had underestimated abstention at the regional elections of 2021: “they will say that they knew it (…) they have always been deceived on everything. “In the box, he will push these polls” distorted by the media “.
Metz was the theater of a first: the old CNEWS columnist formulated a mea culpa. “The perfect candidate does not exist,” he apologized, “no more than the perfect man”. “There are mistakes that I will not do anymore,” he continued on an unusual tone, citing his remarks on the disabled and Ukrainian refugees. And, among his campaign lessons: “a sentence too much is paying expensive when we do not have time to defend it.” His conclusion nevertheless sums up to persist, and remain himself. “I learned that my sincerity could radically change the rules of the French political game, so I will continue,” he promised his followers, adding that the demonization is “the tool that the media found for guilty the French to think what they think. “
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