His campaign is slipping, he is still left behind by Valérie Pécresse and Marine Le Pen. Éric Zemmour tried to highlight his new supporters from the RN. Campaigning in the south-east of France, the far-right candidate went this Friday, January 21 to the border post of Menton near Nice where he declared that he wanted to restore the return of illegal migrants ” by charter “, remove the law of the ground and treated the associations of assistance to the migrants ” enemies of the Republic “.
From our special correspondent in Menton,
The ballet is now well known. At each new rally, Éric Zemmour displays them during a trip. In Menton, the candidate therefore arrived with two new catches, two former members of the National Rally. Damien Rieu was the parliamentary assistant to one of Marine Le Pen’s closest advisers. ” There is a dynamic on one side, there are rallies. There is also the desire to hold on to a discourse of truth, to speak of “Great replacement” for example “, he believes.
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Little known to the general public, Damien Rieu arrives with his networks in the identity movement and his hundred thousand subscribers on Twitter.
” A campaign is long. There are ups, there are downs. »
MEP Jérôme Rivière also made the trip to Menton. ” He is the only one today capable of bringing together populist nationals and patriotic conservatives he says.
Two beautiful fish to try to turn the page of a complicated sequence between legal troubles, controversy around the education of the disabled and polls at a standstill. Éric Zemmour kicks in touch: “ A campaign, first of all, is long. There are ups, there are downs. It’s like that. I am delighted to welcome Jérôme. We will welcome others, you will see. »
MEP from RN Gilbert Collard has, in turn, taken the plunge. This media figure will be present at Éric Zemmour’s meeting in Cannes this Saturday. But this handful of rallies remains for the moment without effect in the polls.
Zemmour facing demonstrators who call him “enemy of the Republic”