The extreme right candidate obtained 7% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election of Sunday 10 April. It ends in fourth position, far behind the head trio.
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Eric Zemmour obtained 7% of the vote expressed in the first round of the presidential election of April 10, according to the first Estimates Ipsos-Sopra Steria. This defeat is undoubtedly explained by a combination of factors, that the far-right candidate has also seen up in recent weeks, multiplying calls for mobilization, in all layers of the electorate.
Eric Zemmour did not seem successful to bring together “the patriotic bourgeoisie”, apart from a portion of Fillieres of 2017 and Catholics of the Manif for All, and “the popular classes”, who have been essentially loyal to Marine Le Pen, which exceeds 23%. His party reconquest! Already showed this weakness: Eric Zemmour has actually built a new national gathering on the right of the RN, but where the party rallies the Republicans are rare: an obscure senator, sebastien, a former unknown deputy, Nicolas Dhuicq, and especially Guillaume Peltier, the former number two of LR, who is him a successive rallied – former National Front, the National Republican Movement (MNR) of Bruno Mégret, the Movement for France (MPF) of Philippe de Villiers, then from the ‘Ump.
Circle of courtiers
Eric Zemmour could believe in the victory: credited with just 7% of the votes in September 2021, he joined 17% or 18% of the voting intentions in mid-October, before descending inexorably. It has, obviously, succeeded in imposing its campaign themes, including the classical right, builds a device that claims more than 100,000 members, imposed an almost absolute domination on social networks and filled with meetings. as none of the other candidates.
But the fervor he generates at his supporters did not translate into the ballot boxes. “I believe that the dynamics is on my side, he again declared on April 6th on France Inter. All objective elements, full rooms, fervor, television hearings, the number of members, all that, It’s me. “The circle of courtiers who surrounds him has powerfully exacerbated the Hubris of a man who did not miss it, and who did not worry about having become a kind of guru whose only one presence electrified the crowds.
Finally, it is necessary to count with the outrages of the candidate, who marked the presidential campaign: the “humorous trait” which brought him journalists with a rifle at the Milipol show (October 20, 2021), the press conference On the very scene of the Bataclan as to the responsibility of François Hollande (November 12, 2021), the very little presidential finger of a militant in Marseille (November 27, 2021), his remarks on the disabled and “the obsession of their Inclusion at school “, which made jump (January 14) …. Not to mention the Misogyny assumed from his past of the polemicist, that he tried to forget but which is worth a severe deficit in the female electorate.
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