Zemmour in the French Beauce to conquer the rural vote

(Châteaudun) The far-right candidate Éric Zemmour chained the winks supported to the rural “peripheral France” of the “forgotten”, dear to his rival Marine Le Pen, Friday during a trip to Beauce concluded by an electoral assembly in Châteaudun.

“Our political elites have neglected these territories. You weren’t as trendy, as sympathetic as the inhabitants of the suburbs, ”quipped Mr. Zemmour, from the Reconquest party !, during this public meeting, organized in the early evening in the sub-prefecture of 13,000 inhabitants.

According to his entourage, 1,500 people gathered for this assembly at the “Crystal”, a private party hall and former Monsieur Meuble store, in the middle of the commercial area, wedged between the detention center, the police and the fire station.

In the midst of “President Zemmour” and French flags, the far-right candidate praised the “productive and creative potential” of the French campaign “in the face of Parisian elites who do not understand you”.

No more wind turbines

Following the example of Marine Le Pen, of the National Rally, or elected representatives of the right, he criticized in passing “the wind turbines so ugly, so noisy, in addition so inefficient” and promised to “put an end” to their establishment by France.

Short circuits in canteens, food sovereignty, “patriscore” on the traceability of products, urgent hiring of 1000 doctors employed by the State to fight against medical deserts … Eric Zemmour unrolled his proposals for “rurality”, leaving for for a time the fight against immigration, his favorite theme.

In the audience, Vincent, a young notary from Janville-en-Beauce is delighted that we are talking about rurality when “everyone wants to please the voters of the cities”.

Coming from Tours, Claudie judges that “if Macron returns, France is dead. We can no longer bear that the scum in France has all the rights ”.

In Châteaudun, Emmanuel Macron (23.6%) and Marine Le Pen (23.2%) tied the game in the first round in 2017, followed by Francois Fillon (21.7%). The first had largely won in the second round with 65% of the votes in the town.

During the day, Eric Zemmour crisscrossed the Beauceron cereal plain, with, among other objectives, that of collecting sponsorships from elected officials, while he regularly repeats his difficulties in collecting the 500 necessary signatures.

In Bonneval, in the “little Venice of Beauce”, he had lunch with around forty elected after a meeting at the town hall.

There he pleaded to restore power to the mayors by reinstating the plurality of mandates, in order to “put an end to the deputies above ground”. And defended at will the “France of the forgotten”, an expression often repeated by Marine Le Pen.

His close advisor Sarah Knafo brushes aside any mimicry. “It’s an expression that a lot of people use. We are addressing rural France, not the electorate of Marine Le Pen ”.

In the village of Villampuy, 300 inhabitants, the mayor Vincent Lhopiteau, shows his support for Éric Zemmour whom he sponsors. A case of “convictions” for the city councilor, who was in the past legislative candidate for the former party of Philippe de Villiers.

“The uninhibited right”

“It’s the uninhibited right, not like Valérie Pécresse,” said Mr. Lhopiteau, referring to the candidate for the Les Républicains party.

During a meeting and galette des rois with farmers, several criticize France for “assistantship” and tell of their difficulties in recruiting for “jobs where you have to get up early”. “Suddenly we have Poles, Eritreans, refugees, and the problem is that they do not speak the language,” said Nicolas, who works in agricultural equipment.

At a seed producer, Eric Zemmour also scratches “the ecological dictatorship” and the “over-transposition of the Brussels directives”.

Before discussing with an employee, who voted “Marine to act as a barrier” to Emmanuel Macron in 2017. For 2022, he hesitates, but he is still “fed up” with “the increase in fuels and all that. that we are caught in the teeth ”.