“It is still under discussion,” says a relative of the candidate of the National Rally. No initiative has yet been accepted on the side of the far-right candidate.
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Marine Le Pen has accepted the principle of a debate with Eric Zemmour, Franceinfo has learned from corroborating sources. The date has not yet been set, but at the beginning of February is one of the options considered, the same source specifies. The name of the organizer, who made his proposal “the last days”, remains unknown for the time being.
“It is still under discussion, but we do not want it to be on a television channel, rather on a stage, as during the debate between Éric Zemmour and Michel Onfray” last October 4 explains a relative of the candidate. “If they think she is going to slip away, they are wrong”, adds a member of his campaign team. No initiative has yet been accepted, for their part, assure several members of Eric Zemmour’s entourage, but the candidate “never refused to argue with anyone”, explains one of his relatives.
By accepting the principle of a debate, Marine Le Pen changes lines. In recent weeks, the candidate claimed to wait until Eric Zemmour is really a candidate, in other words that he has his 500 signatures of elected officials to consider a debate with him. The validation of the candidatures will take place on March 5, a little over a month before the first round of the presidential election.