“I will lead our beautiful and big fight alongside our 550 candidates,” said the former journalist of the “Figaro” in a tweet, Thursday morning.
Le Monde
This is the end of the suspense. After several weeks of reflection, Eric Zemmour announced Thursday May 12 on Twitter that he will be a candidate in the legislative elections. The candidate for reconquest! In the presidential election presents itself in the 4
“Reconquest is back everywhere in France. I will lead our beautiful and big fight alongside our 550 candidates. I present myself in the 4
The latter will hold a meeting Thursday evening in Cogolin at 6 p.m. The Reconquest Party President! had obtained 14.7 % of the votes in the first round of the presidential election in this constituency, against 32.2 % for Marine Le Pen and 24.1 % for Emmanuel Macron.
LRM, the NUPS and the Rally national facing him
He will notably have a candidate of the National Rally (RN), Philippe Lottiaux, and the outgoing Macronist Macronist Sereine Mauborgne. The candidate of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), Sabine Cristofani-Viglione (La France Insoumise) will also try her luck. The former editorial writer of Figaro and Cnews hesitated at length before running for a ballot which promises to be difficult for his camp.
Last Saturday, he participated in the training day in the legislative elections of the 550 candidates of his political training. He had delivered a speech seeming to step over the results of the legislative elections: “During the presidential election, we laid the foundations,” he had assured. We will now lay the first stones. We will root, everywhere in our beautiful country. “He then estimated that “the time of the right-left cleavage has returned”, between “a centrist and Macronian block” and “an Islamo-leftist and melenchonist block”, in which he sees, in the long term, the main enemy, even if C ‘is “the marriage of carp and rabbit” and “swimmers in burkini and zadists in poncho”.
He also claimed to fight “not only for the next election, but especially for the next generation”, “because we are not just a political party, but also a school of thought”.
Marion Maréchal gives up on
Before the designation of the 550 candidates of his party, Mr. Zemmour had repeatedly claimed an agreement with the National Rally, in vain. If Eric Zemmour “presents himself, he goes to the card,” said the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, Wednesday May 4. Parisian, Eric Zemmour finally left his lieutenants, Sébastien Pilard (ex-Les Républicains) and Garen Shnorhokian, launching into the 14
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His leader of the Youth Movement, Stanislas Rigault, is a candidate in the neighboring Vaucluse, in the 2 e district. Pregnant, the former deputy RN Marion Maréchal, vice-president of reconquest!, Decided not to present itself. “We regret it a lot,” said Monday on France Bleu Vaucluse, Bertrand de la Chesnais, coordinator of the party of Eric Zemmour in this department.