The extreme right candidate always ensures, despite the polls, that he will be present in the second round of the presidential election, but prepares the next ballot.
Eric Zemmour has undertaken to gently prepare his troops at a likely defeat in the presidential election, he is now seen in possible “Leader of the Opposition”, while striving to argue that he will be present. Second round. Perilous exercise: It is always difficult when we wanted to “spill the table”, to satisfy a stool. The return on earth may be complicated, and the preparation of the legislative laws could turn on the puzzle.
“I will be in the second round, tweeted the former journalist, Tuesday, April 5th. Then I will be president of the Republic, leader of the opposition.” More probably simple candidate for legislative. The word escaped him, on Tuesday, during the show “Elysee 2022”, on France 2, when the journalist Léa Salamé asked him if he would be a candidate for the legislative elections. “I will be a candidate,” said Eric Zemmour, who quickly took up. But I’ll be in the second round and I will be elected, I will not abandon the people who trusted me. “
He pushed the nail Wednesday morning on France Inter, assured that he did not believe in the surveys “who were still mistaken since 1995” – the thesis of the “hidden vote” has long allowed to reassure activists. “I believe that the political dynamics is on my side, has reassured the candidate of the extreme right. All the objective elements, the full rooms, the fervor, the television hearings, the number of members, all that, c ‘ is me. “
Still that the method cummed at its limits, and the campaign team understood that the adventure was risking running short. The ninth wave of the Ipsos-Sopra Steria survey for Le Monde, published on Wednesday, the credits of barely 10% of the voting intentions, certainly before Valérie Pécresse, but very far behind Marine Le Pen (21.5%) . A great political advice must be held on Friday afternoon at the Reconquest Headquarters! To reflect on the different options in the evening of the first round.
“Reconciliation of the lines”
Should we call to vote for Marine Le Pen, in the hypothesis where she would qualify against Emmanuel Macron? Attempt to negotiate an electoral alliance for legislative election? “The goal is that Emmanuel Macron does not become president,” says Jean-Frédéric Fish, the President of the Personnel (VIA), one of the components of the Zemmour Nebula. It is not possible to stay neutral, it’s my position. You have to call to vote against Macron, not call to vote Le Pen – there is a distinguo. “In 2017, he was one of the rare on the right to refuse to choose, “But we have seen well since what macron”.
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