” Air pocket “, ” bad pass “ and even ” nightmare “ : the war in Ukraine worries Eric Zemmour’s campaign team. The nationalist candidate fell several points in the surveys to land at 13% of voting intentions, in the sixth wave of the Ipsos-Sopra Steria study for The world, behind Marine Le Pen (14.5%) and Emmanuel Macron (30.5%). His entourage is now divided between the “political” circle, gripped by doubt, and the pro-Kremlin “geopoliticians”.
All his supporters agree that the exit was hazardous. “Russia, I bet, will not invade Ukraine”, he assured in December 2021. ” Lostloose Jean-Marie Le Pen at the mansion of Montretout. He made an edge fault. It is the mark of a dubious judgment which should not favor him. » If he had supported Mr. Zemmour on “the obsession with inclusion” of the disabled, who had telephoned him to thank him, the founder of the National Front (FN) is careful this time to help him.
His friends urged Eric Zemmour to make himself small. ” Shut your mouth, asked Paul-Marie Couteaux, Thursday, February 24. Don’t fall into the trap of saying what’s on your mind. » Zemmour ” sentenced “ Russian aggression from the outset, but persists in holding NATO for ” responsible “. Eager to ” give something ” to Vladimir Putin, in his words, he opposes sanctions and the supply of weapons to the Ukrainians, offers to leave the NATO integrated command and sign a treaty excluding any entry of Ukraine into the Alliance .
Meeting with a close friend of Putin
The only one to say that he is against the reception of Ukrainian refugees, he persists, despite the favorable opinion and the commitments of France in terms of asylum. “Ukrainians don’t want to come, they want to stay close to their people”, he maintains, Wednesday, March 2, on CNews… contrary to the opinion of his campaign team and even of his identity fringe, militant for Christian Europe and distraught by the Chechens of Ramzan Kadyrov.
These hesitations are linked to his geopolitical vision turned towards “the ally” Russian, but also result from an obsessive campaign strategy: denouncing a “great replacement” and celebrating traditionalist values. How to erase in one day a line patiently built over the years? His French suicide (Albin Michel, 2014) sat on the bedside table of the former Russian ambassador to France, Alexandre Orlov, who detected “the truth of France today”, recounts Nicolas Hénin in Russian France. Putin network survey (Fayard, 2016).
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