In a field with Mont Saint-Michel in the background, far-right candidate Eric Zemmour extolled France’s “power” and Christian values on Saturday following presenting his new recruit from the RN, Nicolas Bay.
In front of a thousand supporters waving tricolor flags with their feet in the mud, the candidate of the Reconquête! did not make a new announcement but insisted on the image of “the most famous rock in France”, “this castle of fairies, planted in the sea”, “high place of our national memory”.
Recalling that “the first Christians settled there fifteen centuries ago”, Eric Zemmour made a long digression on Saint-Michel, “superior angel and military angel”, to say that the nations “also had a spiritual fight to carry out” to defend their “soul”, their “identity” and their “independence”.
“All my life, I will fight this vision of a vassal France, of a valet France, of a puppet France”, he underlined, considering that “the power of France” was in danger, in particular because of Emmanuel Macron, the only political rival he cited on Saturday, 50 days before the first round of the presidential election.
“Macron wants to be intimate with the greats of this world, without ever confronting them when they step on us, to the point of making France seem tiny (…) In 2017, France elected nothingness and it fell inside”, he launched under the clamor of his public shouting “Zemmour president”
Recalling that he planned to increase the Defense budget by nearly 30 billion euros by 2030, he also insisted on the savings to be made by stopping distributing “gift certificates for the development of 140 million euros to China”.
“We don’t want any more assistance at home than global assistance! France is not an NGO,” he said.
For Eric Zemmour, this Normandy meeting was also an opportunity to present his latest recruit from the National Rally, MEP Nicolas Bay, who was immediately bombarded as vice-president of Reconquête!.
At the podium, Mr. Bay, regional councilor in Normandy, also saw in Mont Saint-Michel the “symbol of eternal France which does not want to die”, while it is “threatened by mass immigration , political Islam”, but also “the sprawling, bureaucratic and plundering State”.
Admitting his “emotion” on this “first day of a new political life”, he assured, on the edge of the D275 in front of a biscuit factory: “We do not replace the French” because “the” French are irreplaceable “
