Having struggled in voting intentions since the start of the war in Ukraine, due to a long-claimed admiration for Vladimir Putin, Eric Zemmour is strengthening his fundamentals in an attempt to relaunch his campaign. Guest of the M6 channel on Monday March 21, the far-right candidate declared that he wanted to create a ministry for “remigration”. This xenophobic concept coming from identity thinking consists of wishing to organize the forced displacement of part of the population.
Eric Zemmour’s objective would be to expel the “strangers we no longer want”. “I expel delinquents, criminals, I expel S files”serenaded the candidate who intends to restore “the clandestines”the “offence of clandestinity which no longer exists since 2012”. “The ministry will have the means, it will have charters, we will make collective flights”insisted Eric Zemmour, specifying that he wanted to surrender, in the event of an election, “in the Maghreb to see with the leaders of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia how we can organize this”.
The concept of “remigration”, that is to say the forced displacement of populations considered as foreigners towards their supposed “country of origin”, is in particular carried by the far-right writer Renaud Camus, promoter of the notion racist and conspiratorial of the “great replacement” taken over by Eric Zemmour.
Behind purchasing power, the health system and the environment in the ranking of French concerns for this presidential election, according to a recent Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll for France Inter, immigration is the alpha and the omega of Eric Zemmour’s program.
Placed in third position in the voting intentions in the first round a few weeks ago, Eric Zemmour has seen his score in the polls dull since the start of the war in Ukraine. According to the Ipsos-Sopra Steria daily barometer for franceinfo and Le Parisien-Today in France, published on Monday, he is neck and neck with Valérie Pécresse around 10% of the voting intentions. Credited with 13% of the vote, Jean-Luc Mélenchon now occupies third place, behind Marine Le Pen (17%) and Emmanuel Macron (30.5%).