Zemmour in the legislative elections, absence of an alliance with the RN and score in the presidential election … Nicolas Bay’s “8:30 franceinfo”

Legislative: Zemmour “on the front line, ahead of the 550 Reconquest candidates”

After some hesitation, Eric Zemmour will finally be a candidate for the legislative elections, in the Var, in the district of Saint-Tropez. A logical choice for the vice-president of Reconquest! Nicolas Bay, guest of 8:30 franceinfo this Friday, May 13 “It’s a place he knows well, where voters trusted him in the first round of the presidential election.” According to him, it is important “Let him be on the front line, in front of the 550 Reconquest candidates!”

“The only new force that has emerged in this election is Eric Zemmour.”

Nicholas Bay

at franceinfo

While the presidential election saw Eric Zemmour collect 7% of the votes in the first round, the strategy was the right one according to Nicolas Bay, the Reconquest candidate! was a victim of circumstances: “He first imposed a certain number of themes in the campaign. The only new force that emerged in this election was Eric Zemmour. He posed the debate on the preservation of our identity. Emmanuel Macron took advantage of the war in Ukraine to avoid debate. It has benefited the most established political labels. It’s a vote of habit, of inertia.”

No union of rights: “Shop accounts outweigh the interest of our country”

Faced with the union of left-wing parties, the parties on the other side of the political spectrum will not form an alliance since Marine Le Pen refused the hand extended by Eric Zemmour for an alliance in the legislative elections. A choice that Nicolas Bay, former member of the National Rally, deplores: “I regret it because there is the idea that we prefer to have seven or eight deputies alone than fifty with others. Shop accounts outweigh the interest of our country.”

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