In difficulty in polls, the reconquest candidate! Gather, Sunday, March 27, tens of thousands of people on the famous place located in the capital, two weeks from the first round of the presidential election.
Le Monde with AFP
The place is a new wink to the right. After Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012 and François Fillon in 2017, Eric Zemmour gathers his supports on the Trocadero Square, Sunday, March 27, for his last major country meeting with two weeks of the first round of the presidential election.
In difficulty for several weeks, especially since the invasion of Russia in Ukraine who recalled his positions on Vladimir Putin, the reconquest candidate! Get together dozens of thousands of people for one last start. “It will be the campaign event, the biggest gathering,” he hoped on Friday on South Radio.
m. Zemmour gave an appointment to his activists around 2 pm, before a speech at 4 pm. “All France is invited, except the extreme right provocators, extreme left and extreme stupidity. In advance, thank you to them to go elsewhere,” he launched on Twitter Thursday night. For his spokesman, Stanislas Rigault, “It is hoped that it will be a great political moment. It remains fifteen days, everything is going, in reality, to play in a pocket handkerchief, and the driving demonstration of the Trocadero can help us Make the difference at the end. “
Reinforced Security
While these large troCadero rails had not allowed Nicolas Sarkozy and François Fillon to win a few weeks later, Mr. Rigault sees “rather their meetings like bursts. Sarkozy would not have reached 48% [In the second round, in 2012] without this and Fillon would not have been a few hundred thousands of votes to qualify “for the second round in 2017,” he replies.
So far, the biggest meeting of Eric Zemmour was held on December 5 in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), with more than 10,000 people and many incidents. Security will therefore be observed by Sunday. “Several hundred people” – private security and volunteers – have been mobilized, assured a member of the campaign at the France-Presse agency, in addition to the forces of the order deployed.
Place du Trocadero, the Theater of Chaillot, the Museum of Man and the City of Architecture will be closed because of the meeting. The CGT-show federation is called “dismayed” that this gathering is authorized “at the expense of the security and activity of the employees, and the reception of the public”.
Hectic tour in the North -Est of Paris
For Eric Zemmour, this meeting seems the last chance to convince the undecided and get closer to a second round qualification. At the beginning of the week, at a public meeting in Metz, the reconquest candidate! Repeated the theme of the “alone against all”. “We are ready to save the truth to save France, whatever our opponents say, has he warned. We will never hide a truth to please journalists or the surveyors. They will not do the law!”
While falling sharply in opinion surveys, he targeted the survey institutes who had underestimated the regional election of 2021: “they will say they knew it, ( …) They have always been mistaken on everything. “During this meeting in Metz, he had also crossed a step further in radicals by promising a Ministry of” Remigration “, terminology from identity media, in order to expel One million foreigners in five years: clandestine, offenders, criminals and “stuck s”.
This desire to cleave and chain the shock formulas could ultimately produce the expected effect and enjoy its competitor of the extreme right Marine Le Pen. It is, in any case, what the candidate seems to believe in the national rally, who answered to readers of the Parisian , in an interview broadcast on Friday night. For M me Le Pen, the “emergence” of the old CNEWS columnist “and some retrograde aspects of his proposals have allowed people to realize that [the national gathering was] not] This caricature. “” So yes, Eric Zemmour has allowed a new quality of listening on what we are proposing, “she welcomed.