Éric Zemmour’s voters still believe in him, provided “he gets out of his favorite themes”

Three months after the defeat ofEric Zemmour in the legislative elections in the Var, his Reconquête party holds its summer school in the north of the department, in Vinon-sur-Verdon. The Varois find the ex-candidate of the extreme right, from Thursday, September 8, when they had almost forgotten him. On the Sainte-Maxime market, it still smells good in summer, far from political considerations. “We did not see him again”, “Personally, I don’t hear about it at all”commented locals in the market. “In any case, he was not elected, but even those who are elected we do not see them again.” What does not bother other onlookers: “I’m glad we don’t hear about it anymore”, “I don’t like the character at all”.

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Éric Zemmour stood in the legislative elections in June in the fourth constituency of the Var, without being elected. He only won 23% of the vote in the first round. Hard to believe that nearly a quarter of Sainte-Maxime voters chose Zemmour in the legislative elections.

We continue the road to Saint-Tropez, where the candidate gathered more than a third of the votes in June. It is on the petanque ground that we find the real Tropéziens, who assume their vote and their disappointment with the results. “Disappointment of course, but for a first attempt, I think it’s still quite exceptional”, believes Rene. For him, Zemmour has a political future: “It takes tenacity, but this will do it.”

“His proposals are very fair, I think it needs to mature.”

René, a Tropezian

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René believes in it, just like his teammate André, he allows himself to give advice to Éric Zemmour to correct the situation: “That he has more moderate advisers to stop him from making the mistakes he made in his first campaign. He made a few swerves that were detrimental to him.” André quotes the remarks on the Ukrainian refugees or on Pétain in particular. Raoul gets up from his bench. He also voted Zemmour but he has doubts about his political future. “It will be tough because people have other concerns, inflation, purchasing power.

He must get out of his themes, security and immigration, and offer other things to the French.”

Raoul, a voter of Eric Zemmour

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Remarks already heard by party leaders. “We must learn to move from the future to the present”explains Marc-Etienne Lansade is the departmental coordinator of Reconquête. “We are brought back to the daily life of the French and this is where we have to know how to adapt our speech. Not the substance which, in my opinion, will remain the good one, but how you present things.” According to him, the French will eventually open their eyes and vote Reconquest.