For his political comeback, Eric Zemmour warns against “great indoctrination”

Five months after his failure in the presidential elections, Eric Zemmour rallied his troops on Sunday in Provence, without any real mea culpa about his campaign but still criticizing the “great replacement”, the “great demotion” and now the “great indoctrination”. “.

In a field in Gréoux-les-Bains, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, the former polemicist counted “7,000 people, twice as many as expected,” who came to attend a political comeback speech, in sometimes stunned fervor. due to the heat Le candidat malheureux a eu beau jurer n’être “pas là pour parler de la campagne passée”, c’est malgré tout à un exercice de bilan et perspectives auquel il s’est livré, certain d’avoir “eu raison face à l ‘History’.

Without self-criticism but recalling the glorious hours of his massive meetings or his televised debates, the head of the Reconquest recognized a “restoring and saving summer” after his double defeat in the presidential and legislative elections. Faced with the reservations of those who reproached him for his obsession with identity issues, the former journalist tried to occupy the ecological terrain by declining a pro-nuclear argument, or to talk about the economy by advocating a less redistributive State.

“Francocide”

But it is on its foundations that the fourth man in the presidential election has especially insisted, adding to the theories of the “great replacement” and the “great degradation” that of the “great indoctrination.” Considering that “the school (in) is in the center”, he points to “ideologies” in general and to the EELV deputy Sandrine Rousseau or to the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye in particular. Boos fed in the bays.

On the theme “Protect our children”, Eric Zemmour made a long development about the school, asking his troops to “let nothing go”, “speak out”, “protest”, through a “national network of vigilant parents “. present” in each establishment.

“I want all parents to be able to point out to us the aberrations of which their children are victims at school”, he developed, lashing out “the teachers (who teach) their children that France is guilty of crimes against ‘humanity’ or ‘outsiders. (teaching) your six-year-old daughter that if she wants, she can become a boy.’

And, by analogy with the term “femicide” that appeared in the public debate, he proposes calling “francocide” the “beating, rape, murder of a Frenchman by an immigrant.”

The example of Giorgia Meloni in Italy

If the public is enthusiastic and Eric Zemmour boasts of “making the most important political comeback in the country”, the far-right movement continues to be gripped by questions. “I am not losing sight of the next deadlines,” explained the former presidential candidate, while, in the alleys of the Provençal hubbub, many activists are already advocating that Marion Maréchal take the lead on the list of Europeans in the elections. 2024.

It is also the way that ¡Reconquista! should take, as well as its relations with other right-wing and far-right parties that are debated among its members, while Marine Le Pen, crowned with a historical marker in the second round of the presidential election and the election of 89 deputies, celebrated the same time a meeting in his land of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais).

“Eric Zemmour’s bet was to find a political space that would stand out on the issue of identity and in a more liberal aspect. However, a large part of the popular electorate is, on the contrary, quite attached to social protection in the face of the crisis,” political scientist Benjamin Morel pointed out on FranceInfo on Sunday, noting an “extremely complicated context” for the former polemicist.

Among his troops, we want to reassure ourselves by looking in particular at Italy, where the post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) party is the favorite for the legislative elections and whose head, Giorgia Meloni, is emerging as the leader of the government “He had started on 3 % a few years ago”, recalls the vice president of Reconquista! Nicholas Bahia. However, according to him, “it is much closer to Zemmour’s line than to Le Pen’s”.