Sunday, September 11, the dry Verdon receives another major burn of the summer: Eric Zemmour. Two months after legislative elections having marked his electoral low water mark – that is 4.2% of the votes for the Reconquest candidates!, his party, none qualified for the second round –, the far-right polemicist will try, during his first universities summer, to give new impetus to an epic that has fallen like a soufflé.
Her back-to-school interview, Monday, September 5, on RMC and BFM-TV, portends a speech free of mea culpa and strategic reorientation, after the elections consecrated the less identity line of her rival to the far right, Marine The pen.
From 4,000 to 5,000 people are expected for its Sunday address in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. It will conclude three days of training and conferences reserved for activists, in a field that is more used to marriages.
Reconquest! went through the summer to the rhythm of divorces. Several media personalities have moved away from the party, in a choreography symmetrical to that which, in the winter of 2021, saw it garner successive rallies. Two spokespersons who beat television sets during the campaign, Jean Messiha and Antoine Diers, left after the 7.07% of the first round of the presidential election. Two figures of the “yellow vests” movement, Benjamin Cauchy and Jacline Mouraud, later distanced themselves.
In a long message on Facebook, the latter pell-mell reproaches the polemicist for his ” contempt “ for the French and their daily concerns, the supposed Parisianism of his entourage, the influence of his adviser and companion, Sarah Knafo, as well as the new organization of the party, described as “Putinian method”. The vertical organization enshrined in the movement’s new statutes also caused the withdrawal of two of the four MEPs affiliated with it, Gilbert Collard and Jérôme Rivière.
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Gone through the wringer
A framework of Reconquest! brushes aside the moods of “divas not having had the place they wanted” in the new organization, and nurturing something “sourness”. After nine months of existence, the party felt the need to upset its operation, without changing the principle: the movement remains solidly locked by Eric Zemmour. The 130,000 members could certainly elect the vice-presidents, but, with three candidates for as many places, the choice remained limited.
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