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4:41 p.m. : “She is the candidate for the Manif pour tous, she is the right-wing candidate, but from a right which, I hope, will return to the republican field”
During the debates organized within the framework of the LR congress, “not a candidate, not a candidate (…) was able to say that the ideas of Zemmour on the big replacement were nonsense”, lamented the candidate EELV, on France 3.
4:38 p.m. : Eric Zemmour’s party will be called Reconquest, confirms his entourage to franceinfo. It is under the banner of this formation, which he should present during his meeting in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis) just now, that the polemicist will stand for the presidential election.
4:27 p.m. : Eric Zemmour’s meeting began with the first speeches including that of @LaurenceTrochu of the Conservative Movement, but to the right and left of the stage, the candidate does not fill up. 12,000 chairs have been installed according to #ZemmourVillepinte organizers https://t.co/SyBk6dE1u0
4:26 p.m. : Eric Zemmour’s meeting started in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), with the first speeches. While 12,000 chairs have been installed, for this meeting originally planned in the smaller room of the Zénith de La Villette, the room is not full, notes our journalist on site.
4:12 p.m. : We told you about it a few minutes ago: journalists from the “Quotidien” program must have been exfiltrated from Eric Zemmour’s meeting while the crowd was attacking them. They were then able to return to the meeting, according to several journalists.
3:59 p.m. : Here is a new point on the news:
• “No, France is not the extreme right”, said Jean-Luc Mélenchon during a speech at La Défense. Eric Zemmour will also speak during his first meeting this afternoon. Follow our live.
• Pope Francis called for an end to a “shipwreck of civilization” during a vibrant speech at the migrant camp from Mavrovouni to Lesbos, five years after his first visit to this Greek island emblematic of the migration crisis.
• The number of confirmed cases of the new Omicron variant jumped to 183 today in Denmark, health officials said, calling the development “worrying”.
3:54 p.m. : Joined by France Televisions, the entourage of Eric Ciotti indicated that the two finalists had exchanged on the phone for 45 minutes in the middle of the day. “It’s not a push, it’s a message of truth, defended the Ciotti camp. Eric, this is the anti-Zemmour weapon. If we win, it will be by blocking Zemmour, by siphoning him. (…) If Valérie had said ‘to the right all’, she would have blocked Zemmour. “
3:53 p.m. : Loyal but critical. The defeated LR Congress finalist, Eric Ciotti, put pressure on the nominee, Valérie Pécresse, reproaching him for not taking up some of his proposals. “The message that was launched yesterday by Valérie Pécresse was not a good message”, criticized the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes, after a public meeting in Nice.
3:47 p.m. : “If I am elected, there will be a social emergency law. Those who gained a lot during the crisis will have to pay a lot to repair it. The prices of basic necessities will be blocked, the minimum wage will be increased as well as the social minima . “
Jean-Luc Mélenchon lists his proposals.
3:43 p.m. : “Daily outside … daily collaborator … everyone hates Daily” chants the crowd #ZemmourVillepinte
3:43 p.m. : “Zemmour president! Macron resign!”, Chanted many participants in the first meeting of Eric Zemmour as a candidate for the presidential election. Personalities like @EricNaulleau are present. #ZemmourVillepinte
3:43 p.m. : In parallel to Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), the meeting of Eric Zemmour will start soon. The team of the show “Quotidien” was exfiltrated under the insults.
3:38 p.m. : “We know that the level of social destruction that has taken place in our country is such that everything must now be rebuilt.”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon cited “The public hospital, which 180,000 people have left so devastated, but which we have just rediscovered how essential it is” or even school “sacked”.
3:30 p.m. : “It is necessary at all costs that the tests become free again so that everyone can, in responsibility, vaccinated or not, go to the family celebration.”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon pleads for the return of free tests as the Christmas holidays approach.
3:21 p.m. : “COP26 is a disaster. Words, words and more words …”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon returned to the climate conference at the beginning of November. Without acts, “notWe will have warming which will make islands disappear. We ourselves will be overtaken by this rising water“, he underlined.
3:18 p.m. : “Monsieur Zemmour denies that there is a human race.”
After Valérie Pécresse, Jean-Luc Mélenchon cited his other opponents in this presidential election. “Macron plays the guy who is not a candidate to take advantage of the office. (…) He must accept the debate, he is not above democracy”, he added on the President of the Republic.
3:22 p.m. : “Madame Pécresse said she was a third Thatcher, two thirds Merkel. Which doesn’t leave much good. Translated into French, that gives two thirds Macron, one third Zemmour ..”
In the first part of his speech, Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke at length about the candidate nominated yesterday by Les Républicains. “I propose the debate to him, because the debate is the oxygen of democracy”, did he declare.
3:03 p.m. : “While the country is plunged into the darkness of absurd debates, we come to say and proclaim once again: no, France is not the extreme right. France is social security, public health, emancipation, school, research, sharing. “
Jean-Luc Mélenchon has just started his speech to the defense. Insubordinate France announced, just before its speech, “more than 5,000” people present at the meeting.
2:39 p.m. : Jean-Luc Mélenchon organizes his first meeting to launch a “People’s Union Parliament”. “We are campaigning: currently it is less the union which makes the force, than the force which will make the union”, commented from franceinfo the deputy La France insoumise de Seine-Saint-Denis Alexis Corbière.
2:33 p.m. : Jacline Mouraud, former figure of “yellow vests” who announced his presidential candidacy, joins Eric Zemmour, she announced in a press release. She will participate in the latter’s first campaign meeting in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis).
2:00 p.m. : “I support her, but I hear my ideas being represented forcefully.” After the union displayed yesterday during the results of the Republicans primary, Eric Ciotti, losing to Valérie Pécresse, wants to win in the campaign. “She will not be able to win the election if she does not have a strong right. I intend to take my place in this campaign”, he told BFMTV.
13:42 : Demonstration against the candidacy of Zemmour and Marine le Pen from Barbès, popular district of Paris
13:41 : #Antifas try to enter the #villepinte exhibition center / where #Zemmour is organizing its first meeting this am / before being intercepted by the gendarmes @franceinfo
13:41 : While Eric Zemmour’s first campaign meeting is due to start in the early afternoon in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), opponents are trying to enter, reports a journalist on the spot. In Paris, a few kilometers away, demonstrators also gathered at the call of some fifty trade unions, parties and associations to “to hush up” Eric Zemmour.
12h59 : What content should not be missed on our site today?
• This report which tells one night in the pediatric emergencies of the Necker hospital, where teens with psychiatric disorders flock.
• “She worked to bring people together, it’s beautiful” : thousands of visitors pay homage to Joséphine Baker at the Pantheon.
• Eric Zemmour’s first meeting promises to be tense, here’s why.
12:25 : Valérie Pécresse, Les Républicains candidate for the presidential election, is “embarrassing for Emmanuel Macron”, according to political scientist Pascal Perrineau. “It’s difficult for the candidate Macron, who plays a lot on the theme of the first in the class (…). He has to do with someone who has graduated from the same schools as him, who is at the head of ‘one of the largest regions in Europe demographically “, does he analyze for franceinfo.
12h00 : It is noon, here is a new point on the news:
• First life-size test for Eric Zemmour, who is holding his first meeting this afternoon in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis) behind his slogan “Impossible is not French”. A little earlier, Jean-Luc Mélenchon defended his program, L’Avenir en commun, at La Défense (Hauts-de-Seine). Follow our live.
• Pope Francis called for an end to a “shipwreck of civilization” during a vibrant speech at the Mavrovouni migrant camp in Lesbos, five years after his first visit to this Greek island, emblematic of the migration crisis.
• The final counter of pledges showed 73,622,019 euros. “A magnificent telethon that erases the disappointments of 2020”, reacted the director of the French Association against myopathies, Christian Cottet.
12:04 : “I have a lot of criticism to make him, but it must be done in debates in which citizens wonder who is wrong and who is right.”
Before his meeting in La Défense (Hauts-de-Seine), Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke on BFMTV. He spoke of his opponent Eric Zemmour and his supporters. “I am regularly threatened with death in their videos”, he lamented.
11:37 : Five days after his official entry into the presidential race, Eric Zemmour wants to make his first meeting, in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis) at 2:30 p.m., a show of force. But the event promises to be tense, while several mobilizations are expected nearby. We explain why.
09:57 : Here is a quick update on the news:
• After his criticized candidacy announcement, Eric Zemmour holds its first campaign meeting in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis). A day “at risk” according to the police, with anti-Zemmour mobilized.
• In Paris, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is also mobilizing his activists against the right and the extreme right, and wants to show that he can “to unite from the base”, failing to do it with the other left contenders at the Elysee Palace.
• Thirteen civilians were killed in Indian state of Nagaland (northeast) by the security forces. They opened fire on a truck and then on a group of people protesting the incident, police said.
• The final counter of pledges posted 73,622,019 euros. A marked increase compared to the total of 58.3 million euros raised during the duration of the Telethon in 2020.