Strategy of humanization while the polls unscrew for the Reconquest candidate? Absolutely not, according to Eric Zemmour. Who has always made it a point of honor not to publicize his private life. But the approach would come from his own son: Thibaut Zemmour, in his twenties, who appeared publicly for the first time yesterday alongside his father, presidential candidate for 2022.
It was within the framework of the digital program on YouTube, QG, converted for the occasion into “campaign headquarters”, that the son of Eric Zemmour accepted for the first time to testify alongside his father. All under the leadership of videographer Guillaume Pley, who notably worked for NRJ or Fun Radio Belgique. A one-hour format, with a more relaxed and “benevolent” tone than the belligerent debates which see the candidates scatter on traditional television channels.
Thibaut Zemmour is one of three children Eric Zemmour had with his ex-wife Mylne Chichportich. Eric Zemmour’s companion is, as a reminder, Sarah Knafo, who is also the architect of the campaign led by the nationalist candidate.
Born in 1998, Thibaut is Hugo’s little brother, one year his senior, and Clarisse’s big brother, 18 years old. At 24, this law student, at the end of his studies, and who shares an undeniable physical resemblance with his father, explained his approach to Guillaume Pley: “It’s the first time I’ve decided to show myself, only because it’s a less conventional show than what you can see on traditional television. I think it will be the one and only. I’m not too interested in showing myself, in revealing my life. I know how it works, I saw it with my father”, said Thibaut Zemmour in particular; who was eight years old when his father started as a polemicist at Ruquier, on ONPC. The young man, if he is not necessarily in line with all the ideas brought by his father, said he was “proud of him” and that he would have felt “guilty” not to having publicly shown his support for his ambition.
17 days before the first round of the presidential election, the dynamics of the autumn Zemmour have largely stalled: he is currently very far ahead of Marine Le Pen (20% of voting intentions, behind Emmanuel Macron at nearly 30%), credited according to the polls from 9.5% to at most 12%. He scraps with Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Valérie Pécresse for third place in the current polls, the three candidates being relatively close on the strict polling plan. His latest announcement, regarding the creation of a ministry of “remigration”a particularly disputed term, has not finished making ink flow…
The first round of the presidential election, where 12 candidates will compete at the polls, takes place as a reminder on Sunday April 10. The second round, at the end of which we know the name of the person who will be invested for the quinquennium 2022-2027, will take place on Sunday April 24.
