Jérôme Rivière, spokesperson for Eric Zemmour

Does Valérie Pécresse frighten Eric Zemmour? “Not at all”according to Jérôme Rivière, spokesperson for the candidate of the “Reconquète!”, political guest of 23h de franceinfo. “What discomfort when I listened to his meeting. I thought of the discomfort that had been between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron at the time”, he continues. According to him, the candidate LR “is not in the speech”has the “frozen face” and “not the right postures”.

“She tries to do Zemmour, talks about great replacement, while she explained a few months ago that she would never go on these themes there”remember Jerome Riviere. However, Valérie Pécresse remains in a better position than Eric Zemmour in the polls. “It’s a matter of days before the curves are definitely crossed and she’s relegated to that survival position.”he assures.

“Valérie Pécresse is not on the right”, said Eric Zemmour. A statement that confirms Jerome Riviere: “We can clearly see that sheend of Zemmour’s remarks. (…) When you listen to his program, you have a lot of commonplaces and very few ideas”.

“We are trying to break this cordon sanitaire created by the predecessors of Valérie Pécresse, in particular Jacques Chirac, who weakened the link between patriotic conservatives and populist nationals. This right-wing union is what Eric Zemmour is proposing”, he says. On the question of defections, Jérôme Rivière affirms that he is not looking for sponsorships and poaching.