Just over two weeks before the first round of the presidential election, the meetings of the presidential candidates never cease to enliven the weekends. Last Sunday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had planned, for his activists, a short stroll between the two great Parisian symbols of the left: the Place de la Bastille and the Place de la République. Before shouting on the platform and announcing forcefully: “Take power! Vote! “. Anne Hidalgo, despite her 2 to 3% voting intentions, was able to count on strong support during her meeting in Limoges: François Hollande. This weekend, it’s the turn of Yannick Jadot at the Zénith, at La Villette, and Eric Zemmour, at the Trocadéro, to give voice.
Eric Zemmour who is showing a small form this week. After his conviction, last March, for “copyright infringement”, then, previously, in January, for “incitement to hatred”, here is the candidate of “Reconquête! “must suffer a new setback. This time, six anti-homophobia associations have stepped up. They accuse the polemicist of having denied the deportation of homosexuals during the Second World War, and have thus decided to file a complaint for “disputing a crime against humanity”.
Finally, despite invitations to TV sets which are becoming rare, the “little candidates” are still and always there! Jean Lassalle, gave a meeting on Tuesday in Famars, in the North. Last week, the candidate of “Resist! “, in the grip of doubts, had however declared: “I do not know if I will still be a candidate this evening. The Lutte Ouvrière candidate, Nathalie Arthaud, was in Bordeaux last Friday, in front of 300 activists who came to support her “anti-capitalist and revolutionary” project. Finally on the side of the NPA, Philippe Poutou continues his tour of France.