Éric Zemmour’s campaign is struggling at the moment, with a loss of momentum in the polls. Activists and sympathizers are torn between denial and concern. Marion Maréchal, who held her first meeting for Reconquête! near Orleans, could remobilize them.
© Provided by franceinfo
No chair is empty in this room in Saint-Jean-le-Blanc, near Orléans. A certain fervor is felt this evening of March 16. Éric Zemmour’s supporters, who came to the meeting, do not seem worried by the polls at half mast. “The polls, we know how it goes“, accuses this activist, who speaks of”rigged surveys” . Viviane says on his side what “most people hide and don’t say they’re going to vote for Éric Zemmour“. Antoine affirms it: “Me, you would ask me who I vote for, I would not tell you that I vote for the person I come to see.“
Few people in the public concede it: yes, the campaign has been skating in particular for a week, after the debate against the Republican candidate. “He may not have been aggressive enough towards Madame Pécresse“, says an activist. Michel thinks the opposite: “He should have risen higher. He had a bit of a polemical behavior in this campaign.“
“Marion Maréchal has ideas that are more to the right than Zemmour, but she has a face that passes very well.”
A Reconquest activist!at franceinfo
To relaunch the campaign, the solution may have been at the podium, in the person of Marion Marshal. The former RN deputy was the star of this meeting. “Here, so close to Orléans, you have no right to give in to discouragement. Never when you have on your soil this example so magnificent as that of Joan of Arc“, she launched to the public. “She has ideas that are more to the right than those of Zemmour. But she has the face that passes very well. She can help him“, judges another activist.
No effect so far in the polls. Marion Maréchal also recognizes this: you should not expect miracles. No one has the ability to swing an election.