ZEMMOUR. While he is still struggling with Marine Le Pen and Valérie Pécresse in the latest poll, Eric Zemmour has been described as a “service Jew” by Yannick Jadot.
The essential
- Candidate for the first time in the presidential election, Eric Zemmour faces a thorny campaign to conquer the Elysée. He managed to shake up the certainties of the national ballot by causing some uproar among Les Républicains and the National Rally.
- If his eruption in the Elysian race has sometimes propelled him to the second round, the polls have also given him far from the match for the second round. But two months from the first round, Eric Zemmour seems to be back in the game according to the results of the latest polls, which give him on the heels of Marine Le Pen and Valérie Pécresse, around 14%.
- Despite high voting intentions, Eric Zemmour is not certain of being able to stand in the presidential election. Indeed, the polemicist skates in his quest for the 500 sponsorships of elected officials, necessary to formalize his candidacy.
- Its program, radical on immigration, Islam or even the national priority, is decried, but certain measures receive majority approval (lower contributions for low wages, ban on the veil). On the other hand, his wishes to push back the retirement age or even to abolish the PMA for single women or couples of women are mostly rejected.
- However, his speech on the “great replacement” is not unique to him. If Marine Le Pen also makes similar comments, Valérie Pécresse displayed herself on the same line as the polemicist and also mentioned this theory, during her meeting on Sunday February 13, 2022.
- In addition, Yannick Jadot referred to Eric Zemmour as “the Jew on duty”, during an interview. Remarks criticized by the political class, on the right as on the left.
- Find all the information on Eric Zemmour’s presidential campaign in this article.
The live campaign
4:54 p.m. – Eric Zemmour described as a “service Jew” by Yannick Jadot
“Zemmour has a difference with Le Pen senior, the most perverse difference. It is that Zemmour is Jewish, he acts as a service Jew for the anti-Semites. (…) He inoculates the poison of division”. These remarks were made by Yannick Jadot on Radio J, Sunday February 13, 2022. For the EELV candidate for the presidential election, “Zemmour carries anti-Semitism, he condemns Dreyfus and rehabilitates Pétain”, he abounded on RMC , Monday, February 14. And to abound: “there is a whole part of the population who has found in Zemmour someone very practical to assume anti-Semitism, he is the useful idiot of anti-Semitism”. Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS, “do not believe[t] not that you have to qualify people by what they are, you don’t have to essentialize anyone. […] Eric Zemmour, today, is the one who rehabilitates the thought of Vichy, [qu’]he is the one who dared to say that Marshal Pétain had saved the French Jews by handing over the foreign Jews. That alone should make us jump”, he judged Monday morning on Franceinfo. For his part, Eric Ciotti spoke of a “shocking” remark. It’s shameful this resurgence of far-left anti-Semitism.” Eric Zemmour did not comment.
4:44 p.m. – Latest poll: 14.5% and a fourth place for Eric Zemmour
A new poll on the 2022 presidential election was published on Monday February 14, 2022. Conducted by Ifop, the latter credits Eric Zemmour with 14.5% of the votes in the first round of the ballot. He would be in fourth position behind Marine Le Pen and Valérie Pécresse.
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?
16:07 – Eric Zemmour rallied to “participate in this fight against the great replacement”
Believing that he was not “a traditional politician”, Eric Zemmour repeated to the 8 p.m. news from TF1, Sunday February 13, 2022, wanting to “save [la France] of the great replacement”. Facing Anne-Claire Coudray, the Reconquest candidate once again explained that he had “enough of these cities surrounded by hallal butchers, hallal shops, kebas, etc. I’ve had enough of this constant insecurity, of these old ladies who have their necklaces ripped off, of these young women who no longer know how to dress because they are afraid of being attacked”. , according to him, that he has recorded several political rallies, the latest of which, on Sunday, with Stéphane Ravier, the only RN senator. “They want to participate in this fight against the great replacement and they think that I am the only one who can defend this France which wants to remain France”, explained the polemicist, specifying to be reinforced by “effectively, people of the RN. In my team, there are also a lot of people who come from LR. I grant you that they are less known, there are less of them foreground (Jean-Frédéric Poisson, Laurence Trochu, Sébastien Pilard)”.
12:23 – 100,000 members for Eric Zemmour’s party
Launched two months ago, the Reconquête party of Eric Zemmour recorded its 100,000th and 100,001st memberships, as announced by the management of the political formation, this Monday, February 14, 2022. “The teams did not expect to so many members in such a short time,” the party tweeted. By way of comparison, the Republicans have at least 148,862 members (figures communicated before the primary), the PS at least 22,150 (number of voters in the primary). EELV had 10,240 in August 2020 and LREM 20,000 at the same time according to The chained Duck.
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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.
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 was sometimes given ahead of Marine Le Pen in the fall (18%). But he has experienced a slowdown in the polls since December and is given between 11 and 14%. 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. The main axes of the presidential project of the polemicist are exposed on the candidate’s campaign website.
- In the field of‘immigration that he constantly evokes, the polemicist says he wants to put an end to the jus soli and stop or limit all the flows whether they are justified by family reunification or the right of asylum. A major point of its policy is the “return of undesirable foreigners”, either illegal immigrants and delinquents or criminals.
- Mocked for his weaknesses ineconomythe former journalist says he is in favor of the retirement at age 64, the introduction of 39 hours in the public service or 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 issue of wages, Eric Zemmour proposes a reduction of the CSG from 9% to 2.5% for wages between the minimum wage and 2000 euros net and says he is against a return of the ISF. For the purchasing powerthe candidate wants to return to “the universality of family allowances” and “exempt overtime from taxes and social charges”.
- For’environment and energy transition, Eric Zemmour wants to ban new wind projects and freeze existing ones, then redirect efforts and public support towards thermal renewable energies. To limit the artificialization and pollution of the soil, he plans to “prohibit the construction of new large surfaces and commercial areas”.
- Among the other proposals hammered home by the candidate are the return to 90km/h and the wearing of school uniforms. On the Covid, he says he is opposed to the vaccination pass which he wishes to repeal. The nationalist candidate spoke briefly about European politics and argues for national sovereignty over European law.
Eric Zemmour is a journalist, polemicist, columnist and writer, presidential candidate for 2022. He was born into a Jewish family that fled Algeria during the war of independence and settled in the suburbs of Paris. His origins are modest: his father is an ambulance driver and his mother is a housewife. Eric Zemmour emphasizes that he owes his sense of values to his family. After graduating from the IEP in Paris at the age of 21 and attempting the ENA competition twice, without success, he then embarked on a career as a journalist for the written press and collaborated with many newspapers and magazines. : Le Quotidien de Paris, Le Figaro, Current Values, etc.
Eric Zemmour also takes advantage of his profile as a polemicist to break into television and radio, first on RTL. But it was in 2006, with the talk show “We are not lying”, hosted by Laurent Ruquier and broadcast by France 2 at the end of the evening on Saturdays, that the journalist found notoriety with the general public with iconoclastic positions. and ultra-conservative. Thanked by the channel in 2011, he continued his columns in various media (RTL, Paris Première…) and arrived on the CNews channel in 2019 for a column in the program “Face à l’info”. He develops his anti-immigrant, anti-feminist ideas there and relays the theories of the “great replacement” and the decline of France.
Eric Zemmour is also the author of a dozen political books including “The First Sex” (Denoël, 2009) and “The French Suicide” (Albin Michel, 2014). His latest book, “France did not say its last word”, was self-published in 2021 through its SARL, Rupembré editions. It develops and further declines the political ambition of Eric Zemmour and allows him to begin a tour of France even before his declaration of candidacy.