Valérie Pécresse finds herself under fire from critics for having taken over during her meeting the racist and conspiracy theory of the “great replacement” brandished by Éric Zemmour. The Reconquest candidate did not ask for so much.
Éric Zemmour is smiling. Faced with around fifty activists gathered at his Parisian HQ, he hands over his party card to the 100,000th member who introduces herself – surprisingly well – as a disappointed activist from the Les Républicains party. “When Eric was talking, I said to myself : “but this man says everything I think”. And I was talking with friends who said to me : “he says what we think and that no one dares to say”. »
An opportunistic staging the day after the meeting of Valérie Pécresse which took up several expressions and theses dear to the extreme right. Éric Zemmour savors an ideological victory. ” The Republican Party is now doomed. The LRs will have to divide up and choose: some will go to Emmanuel Macron, others will come to me. It is inevitable. Political parties have a programmed lifespan. If they are no longer suited to the political situation, well then they die. »
The far-right candidate is convinced of this: voters will necessarily prefer the original to the copy. Or put another way: When you sow on the neighbor’s field, it is the neighbor’s field that harvests. Polls show that Éric Zemmour currently attracts around a quarter of the voters of the right-wing candidate in 2017, François Fillon.