The question is asked by the daily The cross. ” The Republicans vote from this Wednesday, December 1 to designate their presidential candidate. Despite a mobilized electorate and promising sovereign themes for the right, they have not succeeded for the moment, notes the Catholic daily, to loosen the vice between the center and the extreme right. “
And then another question, in connection with the first: who will win?
” LR Congress : the great vagueness at the opening of the vote “, exclaim The Latest News from Alsace. “ Who among Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand, Éric Ciotti, Philippe Juvin or Valérie Pécresse will win the LR internal primary? A little less than 140 000 members vote from this Wednesday. Each candidate believes in his dynamics but nothing is certain … “
” The uncertainty is maximum », Adds Opinion. It is “ suspense until the end. “
Last night, rush The world, “ final televised tour that the candidates (for the LR nomination) had to accomplish in the disturbing shadow of the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour, who continues to covet their electorate. Because it is precisely yesterday Tuesday, relief Le Monde, which the former Figaro journalist decided to orchestrate the announcement of his candidacy, first in a video at noon on social networks then during a “20 hours” on TF1, barely a few dozen minutes before LR debate. “
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Zemmour candidate
And this declaration of candidacy of Éric Zemmour is widely commented this morning.
Stupor and trembling: this is how we could summarize the tone of the various editorials of this Wednesday. Thus, is scoffing Opinion, ” the apocalyptic video published yesterday by Éric Zemmour to launch his candidacy for the Elysée leaves speechless: everything is dark, violent, disturbing. Everything is turned towards a glorious past, necessarily glorious in comparison with a depressing present. “
In fact, complete The Telegram, “ Zemmour looks at the country with a rear-view mirror without sketching out any solution to get out of the difficulties we are going through (…). “
” France is of course often pessimistic, polls say, but at this point? », Ask themselves The echoes. ” Entered the campaign by speaking to a base of convinced, without seeking neither to expand nor to bring together, it is the brand of Zemmour now a candidate. “
Historic challenge for the republican right …
And at the center of his subject: again and again immigration and his favorite theme: the ” great replacement “.
This is hardly surprising Le Figaro : “ forty years of political life without real democratic deliberation on the question of immigration could not remain without consequences. The subject had been abandoned to a sterile party, the RN, Eric Zemmour seized it, with a mixture of daring and brutality. “
However, point Le Figaro, “ to take the head of the party of the concern, by proclaiming itself last bulwark of civilization, candidate of public safety, is not enough to make a program, to give birth to a hope. The speech is lyrical, but for what concrete perspective ? “
Then, ” for the right, the challenge is historic, continues the conservative daily: to respond with firmness, serenity, consistency, experience and courage to this existential angst. The weaknesses visible to the naked eye of the Zemmour adventure should not make Republicans forget that the meteorite could destroy them entirely. “
… and for the left
Release for its part is worried and beats the recall on the left: ” who will protect Muslims, women, Jews, government officials, intellectuals and other targets from Zemmour’s hate speech? For the moment invisible in the political debate, the left now has a historic task before which it cannot shirk. Zemmour’s first campaign meeting, Friday at the Zénith in Paris, will be an opportunity to demonstrate his determination to stop this French evil, again and again. “
At last Humanity indignant : “ the provocation and the outrageousness of the character bring back in a completely uninhibited way the old springs of the discourse of the collaborationist far-right that even Le Pen had not succeeded in rehabilitating. (…) No, Zemmour’s candidacy is not a candidacy like any other. And it is time to put a stop to this feeling of impunity which allows to incite hatred of the other in peace.. “