ZEMMOUR. Eric Zemmour’s campaign has been in a slump for several weeks. The presidential candidate is struggling in the polls and is trying to give new impetus to his project.
The essential
- Eric Zemmour is looking for a second wind. Dismissed from the match for the second round according to the latest polls, the presidential candidate multiplied media interventions and tackled his opponents, before returning to the road for his campaign.
- Friday January 14, 2022, the founder of Reconquest is in the north of France, in the small village of Honnecourt-sur-Escaut (North), but also in Saint-Quentin (Aisne). On Saturday, he will go to Villers-Cotterêts then to Château-Thierry.
- During his visit to BFM on Wednesday January 13, Eric Zemmour formalized his relationship with Sarah Knafo. “She is my collaborator and my companion,” he announced.
- In the polls, the contender for the Elysee is given between 12 and 13% depending on the institutes, which would place him unable to climb to the second round.
The live campaign
15:03 – Eric Zemmour in the north of France
After the media tour, the campaign tour. Eric Zemmour is traveling in the north of France this Friday 14 and this Saturday 15 January 2022. The far-right candidate went to the small village of Honnecourt-sur-Escaut (North), where he exchanged with the municipal council but also teachers. He must, at the end of the afternoon, hold a public meeting in Saint-Quentin (Aisne), at 6.30 p.m.
The polemicist will travel to Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne) on Saturday morning, where he will visit the construction site of the local castle, before heading to Château-Thierry (Aisne) for a visit to the city during the afternoon.
01/13/22 – 3:22 p.m. – Ministry of Instruction and end of the single college to “return to the source of the republican school”
The day after his interview on BFM-TV, Eric Zemmour was the guest of France 2, in the program “The Four Truths”. The far-right candidate notably defended his vision of the school with, as a priority, ending education to promote instruction. “I think the term has importance. The school, the state, is not intended to take care of the education of the children. It is the parents who educate the children. The school must educate . We forgot that we had to educate, that is to say first of all to transmit knowledge “. Thus, the founder of Reconquête wants to replace the Ministry of National Education with a Ministry of National Instruction.
“These questions of education have been diverted into what I call propaganda in the name of the values of the republics which is only a screen for propaganda in favor of LGBT, feminist, anti-racist lobbies etc… I want to return to the source of the republican school which is knowledge, merit and excellence”. To implement his proposals, Eric Zemmour would refuse that the activist Assa Traoré or organizations such as SOS Racisme go to schools and wants to “force publishers to follow the programs. And if publishers, in the name of their freedom editorial, still want to continue in their ideology, we no longer buy their book”.
Wanting to promote apprenticeship, Eric Zemmour wants to do away with the single college and “restore level classes”. Objective, to be able “from the 4th, to develop the orientations so that the children who are gifted for certain trades can do so with fulfillment”.
01/13/22 – 11:08 – Zemmour wants to “unite the rights”
During his interview in “Face à BFM” on Wednesday evening, Eric Zemmour reiterated the meaning and objective of his candidacy, convinced that he could be the link between the traditional right and the nationalist right. “I am committed neither Marine Le Pen, nor Valérie Pécresse can not make, that is to say the union of the rights. Marine Le Pen cannot do it because no LR voter is ready to vote for her. Valérie Pécresse does not want to do it because she is a prisoner of the old moons of the sanitary cordon invented by François Mitterrand “, he developed, before hammering:” I am the only one able to do it “.
01/13/22 – 10:57 – Eric Zemmour is ironic about Marine Le Pen, “Arlette Laguiller of the national right”
The weather is not really looking good between Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen. While the latter questioned Wednesday morning about the “sincerity” of the candidacy of the polemicist, believing that “Valérie Pécresse is [son] majority shareholder”, the polemicist answered him indirectly, Wednesday evening, in the program “Face à BFM”. The far-right candidate has “not really a lesson to receive from Ms. Le Pen. It is still because of her and her calamitous debate that we had five years of Emmanuel Macron. It was already because of her, because she had refused to call Nicolas Sarkozy to vote, that we had François Hollande (she had said to vote white, editor’s note)”.
Above all, Eric Zemmour mentioned a “routine candidacy” from the RN candidate, before continuing, ironically: “she was there the last time, the penultimate time, she will be there the next time I have a moved thought for the voters of the RN: are they ready to lose with Marine Le Pen in 2032? It’s a bit like our Arlette Laguiller of the national right Marine Le Pen “.
01/13/22 – 10:36 – Eric Zemmour formalizes his relationship with Sarah Knafo
It was, it seems, an open secret, the subject of many rumors for months and various front pages of people magazines. Wednesday January 13, 2022, Eric Zemmour put an end to all speculation around his private life, formalizing his relationship with Sarah Knafo, during his visit to BFM-TV : “she is my collaborator, my companion”. “There would have been no campaign without Sarah Knafo”, he added, denouncing however “a permanent harassment of the people press”.
01/12/22 – 10:59 – 12.5 or 13% and a third place for Zemmour according to the latest poll
A new poll on the 2022 presidential election was published on Wednesday January 12, 2022. Produced by Elabe, the latter credits Eric Zemmour with 12.5 or 13% of the votes in the first round of the ballot. He would be preceded by Valérie Pécresse and Marine Le Pen and would be far from reaching the second round.
Now officially a candidate, the polemicist appears to be losing momentum and no longer comes to shake up the candidacies of the Republicans and the National Rally, although the former journalist would manage to capture part of the electorate traditionally voting for the right and the far-right. right, despite everything weakening the scores of its two rivals. But faced with various controversies, the pretender to the Elysée is skating, even if his campaign team continues to form around, in particular, two prefects. From there to completely shake up a campaign that seemed to have been written for months?
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Eric Zemmour formalized his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, in a video posted on the Internet and relayed in the media. The ex-journalist had made no secret of it in recent months, he intended to play a role in this presidential campaign. On August 28, he said without flinching that he “wanted” to unite the rights. After having gone to “meeting the French” as an essayist to promote his book, after having multiplied the signing sessions and even public meetings, after having put his collaboration with Le Figaro on hold in early September, he declared himself candidate in a 10-minute video where we could observe him sitting at a desk, in a slightly outdated library setting, reading his text in front of a microphone. A posture that some will have compared to that of General de Gaulle during the appeal of June 18. Above all, Eric Zemmour’s candidacy video was interspersed with dozens of images and video extracts, aimed at illustrating the decline of France or, conversely, the lost greatness of the country. Many excerpts used without the consent of the authors and which provoked numerous protests and threats of complaint from the rights holders.
Will Eric Zemmour come and blow up the presidential campaign and reshuffle all the cards? If he waited several months before officially declaring himself a candidate for the ballot, the polemicist had been identified as an actor in political life in September because of his speeches and multiple trips. Thus, from the month of September, it was integrated into the opinion surveys carried out by the polls. And his presence immediately aroused a real attraction for some of the voters. The ideas of the former journalist seem to infuse public opinion. To the point that, just credited with 5.5% of the vote on June 9 (Ifop poll), Eric Zemmour is now given around 15% in the voting intentions. It was sometimes even given in front of Marine Le Pen in the fall, but has experienced a slowdown in the polls since mid-November. Discover the compilation of the polls carried out by the Context newspaper below.
Eric Zemmour has already distilled part of his program for the presidential election. In the field of immigration, which he constantly evokes, the polemicist says he wants to put an end to ius soli and establish national preference for allowances, but also to abolish State medical aid. Mocked for his weaknesses in terms of the economy, the former journalist says he is in favor of retirement at 64, the introduction of 39 hours in the public service or even the massive reduction in production taxes. He also advocates the creation of a large Ministry of Industry to direct public orders towards French companies and makes the reindustrialization of the country a priority. On the question of wages, Eric Zemmour proposes a reduction in the CSG from 9% to 2.5% for wages between the Smic and 2000 euros net and says he is against a return of the ISF. Advocating administrative simplification via the creation of a High Commission responsible for implementing it, the candidate wants a return to 90km/h and the wearing of school uniform.