ZEMMOUR. Not qualified for the second round of legislative elections where he was a candidate in the 4th constituency of Var, Eric Zemmour did not hide his disappointment. The future of his party Reconquest! already asking…
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[Mis à jour le 13 juin 2022 à 09h23] Eric Zemmour faced Sunday evening in front of his militants but the shock of the defeat recorded in the first round of the legislative elections led him to cut short the evening. Planned TV duplexes were mostly hastily canceled minutes after the announcement of disappointing results for the Reconquest leader! who will not see the 2nd round in the 4th constituency of Var.
“The results are not up to our expectations but we have just put a flag in each constituency in France”, he tried to expand on the results of his party, qualified in no constituency. “I would have liked to represent the Varois, you who look so much like me. Five years of hard work await us”, concluded the polemicist, bitter towards LR and the RN. “We proposed the union to the other right-wing parties, they did not want it, the left had the free way and we can see the result this evening”, he explained as the NUPES arrived. neck and neck with LREM at the national level. “Mélenchon and Macron are only two sides of the same coin. Our political life is therefore today 50 shades of leftism”, he also judged.
What is Eric Zemmour’s result in the legislative elections?
The final results sent by the services of Place Beauvau confirm this. Eric Zemmour is placed in 3rd position there with 23.19% of the vote, behind Sereine Mauborgne, candidate of the presidential majority coalition Together (28.51%) but also Philippe Lottiaux (RN) with 24.74% of the vote. Having failed to gather 12.5% of voters, Eric Zemmour will not be in the second round of the legislative elections.
For Eric Zemmour, 2022 is therefore the year of the first attempts in politics, but also that of the first failures. To reach the second round of the legislative election, Eric Zemmour had to obtain 12.5% of the votes in relation to the number of registered voters (and not in relation to the number of votes cast). While the abstention is massive, the challenge is clearly missed. From the crested Saint-Tropez to the hinterland, the territory of the 4 district of Var was “a small summary of France” according to Eric Zemmour, parachuted on the shores of the Mediterranean, in a sector which could be favorable to him . During the ballot, Eric Zemmour faced seven candidates: Sereine Mauborgne (LREM), Sabrine Ribeiro Teixeira (Animalist Party), Sabine Cristofani-Viglione (Nupes), Marie-Christine Hamel (LR), Pascale Morel (LO), Valérie Terrazzoni (Ecologist), Chantal Sarrut (Ecologist) and Philippe Lottiaux (RN).
During the campaign for the legislative elections, Eric Zemmour once again tried to achieve “the union of the rights”, a project that is dear to him. But the National Rally and Les Républicains refused him. To the chagrin of the president of Reconquest! who has yet, once again, ensured to be “the one who can bring together all the rights and all the right-wing people”, he who advocated the gathering “of the popular classes and a patriotic bourgeoisie.” A leitmotif that would make him “the only right-wing candidate” according to him, refusing to be assimilated to the far right. A speech that does not seem to have been heard…
Eric Zemmour candidate … but not a voter in the Var
Eric Zemmour could not tip the result of the legislative elections in the 4th district of Var in his favor. If the polemicist aspires to become deputy of the territory, he is not registered on the local electoral rolls. Indeed, the sexagenarian has no place of residence in this territory and nothing obliges legislative candidates to be registered in one of the municipalities of the constituency. His name therefore remained on the list of an office in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, as for the presidential election. Eric Zemmour, however, did not go there to vote but had assured that he wanted to take part in the ballot via a power of attorney.