The closer the presidential election approaches, the more tension grows between the two far-right candidates. Marine Le Pen accused her rival Eric Zemmour on Wednesday of serving as a “stepping stone” for the right-wing candidate Valérie Pécresse for the second round of the presidential election.
“Does (Éric Zemmour) have the ambition to be in the second round, which I do not believe, or does it actually serve as a stepping stone to allow Valérie Pécresse to be in the second?” turn instead of Marine Le Pen? “Asked the candidate of the National Rally, Sunday on BFMTV and RMC.
“If Éric Zemmour is there to help Valérie Pécresse win, then he has to admit it. Valérie Pécresse is its majority shareholder, “added Marine Le Pen, who prefers” to debate with the boss (Valérie Pécresse), rather than with the underlings “like Eric Zemmour.
Divide and rule ?
Marine Le Pen’s anger stems from his competitor’s comments regarding the 500 sponsorships required for a presidential candidacy. On December 16, Eric Zemmour estimated that “if the LRs do this tactical stupidity” to prevent their elected officials from sponsoring him, “Ms. Le Pen will be at 25% and Ms. Pécresse will not be in the second round”. Since then, Marine Le Pen has accused Valérie Pécresse of letting LR mayors sponsor Eric Zemmour to divide the far right.
Eric Zemmour answered him sharply on Wednesday evening on BFM. “Maybe Madame Le Pen is used to this kind of political trickery, me, it’s not my thing. I don’t really have any lessons to take from Madame Le Pen. It is all the same because of her and her calamitous debate that we had five years of Emmanuel Macron. It was already because of her, because she had refused to call to vote for Nicolas Sarkozy, that we had François Hollande ”, added the candidate Reconquest!
“Marine Le Pen does not interest me much, it is a routine application. She was there the last time, she was there the second to last time, she will be there next time, he continued. I have fond thoughts for the voters of the National Rally. Are they ready to lose with Marine Le Pen in 2032? It’s a bit like our Arlette Laguiller of the national right “, he launched, in a parallel with the former spokesperson for Lutte Ouvrière on the far left, six times a candidate in the 1974 presidential election. to that of 2007, a record.
On the side of Valérie Pécresse, its director of communications Geoffroy Didier said on Sunday that the LR mayors who would give their sponsorship to Eric Zemmour “would exclude themselves” from the party but that they remained “free of their choices” and that “no instructions are given” by LR.
