This Sunday, March 10, it was the turn of Reconquête, Éric Zemmour’s party, to launch its campaign for Europeans under the Dome in Paris, in front of around 5,000 people. A meeting which sets the tone for this campaign on the far right of the political spectrum, with one key word: civilization.
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“ Do you want an Islamized Europe or a Europe that is still European? » Marion Maréchalhead of the Reconquest list, set out on Sunday to dramatize the issue of the June 9 election, in an effort to remobilize the electorate of Éric Zemmour from the presidential election two years ago.
During a first major campaign meeting, at the Dôme de Paris, it was a matter of disproving worrying polls: an Elabe study published on Saturday relegated the Maréchal list to 4.5% of voting intentions, below the threshold which allows elected representatives to be sent to the European Parliament.
In the role of room attendant, there is a defector from the Les Républicains party. Guillaume Pelletier. Now vice-president of Reconquest, he immediately fell into Islamophobia. “ On June 9, there is only one issue, there is only one question. Do you want Europe to become Muslim or to remain European? »
A cloud of blue-white-red flags floats in the room when Éric Zemmour takes the stage, reports Pierrick Bonno, from the RFI political service. The party boss begins a course on the history of Europe. And name his opponent. “ The European Union has betrayed its mission, it no longer defends us, quite the contrary. It has become a gaping continent-border. It is on European soil that the child of Stalin and Mohammed rises today: Islamo-leftism », he says, from the podium.
War of Civilizations
After the broadcast of a clip which notably showed Muslims praying – a scene copiously hissed by some 5,000 sympathizers of the far-right party – Marion Maréchal launched into a three-quarter-hour speech around of ” Proud France » and the denunciation of “ the dazzling progress and consequences of Islamization “.
For the former MP (2012-2017) from Vaucluse, then part of her aunt Marine Le Pen’s National Front, this campaign is that of her own political survival, even that of the Zemmourist movement. “ Twelve years ago, I signed up and became the youngest member of parliament in the nation. At the time, I did it out of duty. Today, I also do it out of love, out of love for my daughters, Olympe and Clotilde », Launched the head of the list.
She concluded the meeting by bringing out the concept of the war of civilizations. “ There are now two peoples on our land, two Frances face to face, two Frances that face each other, two Frances that no longer laugh at the same joys. We are here to carry the voice of the Resistance and the Reconquest in France and Europe “, she says.
Sharia law, Ramadan, forced marriages, but also “ drag queen readings to our little ones in our libraries »: the candidate relied on Zemmourist fundamentals to relaunch a struggling campaign.
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