Marine Le Pen: “in mirror image, Éric Zemmour is helping us”
The president of the National Rally Marine Le Pen estimated that if he were a presidential candidate, Eric Zemmour would be “a competitor”. “You have to look at things as they are,” she told reporters on Saturday, before throwing: “may the best win!”
But “as a mirror, it does us a service”, she relativized during a trip to Plan-de-Cuques (Bouches-du-Rhône). “The brutality that emanates from Éric Zemmour’s proposals and its monothematic, mirrored side show that we have a very complete, very detailed, very precise and immediately applicable project as far as we are concerned.”
“Everyone else is running after our calendar”, laughs Christian Jacob
“We will debate in a spirit of listening and respect,” promised party chairman Christian Jacob in his introductory speech on Saturday morning.
Ten days before the first round of the congress scheduled for December 1 to 4, he mocked: “Today, it’s all the others who run after our calendar”, in allusion to the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour who must hold a meeting at the Zénith in Paris on December 5, and to outgoing President Emmanuel Macron “who is making announcements in early December”.
ÉLYSÉEMÈTRE – Polls for the 2022 presidential election
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LR investiture: the 5 candidates will indulge in a big oral in front of the party executives
Countdown started at Les Républicains before the inaugural Congress on December 4. This Saturday, the 5 candidates for the LR primary are preparing to pass a “great oral” in front of the local party executives in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine).
Thus, Michel Barnier, Valérie Pécresse, Xavier Bertrand, Eric Ciotti and Philippe Juvin will all have one hour to speak before the party authorities: 10 minutes of free speech then 50 minutes of discussions, questions and answers with the activists present.
Gender-based and sexual violence: Hidalgo, Jadot and Mélenchon expected at the Paris demonstration this Saturday
Presidential candidates Anne Hidalgo and Yannick Jadot are expected at the Paris demonstration against sexual and gender-based violence this Saturday afternoon.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Philippe Poutou or Alice Coffin, Danièle Obono and Clémentine Autain should also be present, as well as the actresses Sandrine Bonnaire, Muriel Robin or Adèle Haenel.
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Éric Zemmour meeting scheduled at the Zénith in Paris on December 5
Eric Zemmour had announced, on Twitter this Friday, a meeting at the Zenith in Paris, while the announcement of his candidacy for the presidential election is expected soon.
Le Pen judged “lamentable” by Zemmour during the last televised debates
In this interview with the British newspaper, Eric Zemmour ensures that if he was a candidate for the next presidential election, he will undeniably do better than Marine Le Pen, whom he considers to have been “lamentable” during the last televised debates, in particular in 2017 against Emmanuel Macron.
“She humiliated us all,” he says. “And this time to vote Le Pen is to vote Macron”.
“It’s my turn”: Eric Zemmour gives an interview to the British press
Eric Zemmour, undeclared candidate who confirmed on Friday that he would hold a meeting at the Zénith in Paris on December 5, granted interviews to the British press, and in particular to the daily The Daily Telegraph.
“It’s my turn,” he told the newspaper. And to add: “no one in history has done what I have done in recent months”.