“It will be time to move on to another phase“, told us a few days ago a member of the campaign team of Eric Zemmour, illustration of these supporters who are impatient. Besides, the almost candidate realizes it well. Sunday, November 7 on BFMTV, he sent a signal to those who call him to formalize: “A lot of people want me to be a candidate (…) I’m not going to let these people down“. A way of procrastinating a bit.
The polemicist chose to send this message to his troops because there is a little less good these last days in the teams of the ultra-conservative polemicist, like a weariness of this tour which does not end. The intoxication of the polls which climbed by two points each week has given way to reality: 15, 16, 17% for some time. In private, Eric Zemmour recognizes it himself: “We are at a plateau “. Same thing for the supporters: we have been told for weeks of reinforcements from the ranks of the RN, a leak of elected LR … For the moment they are slow to arrive: “Maybe there aren’t enough people backing me in the polls yet“, recognizes the polemicist in small committee. Perhaps this is also due to his status of still non-candidate.
If Eric Zemmour waits, it is especially not to miss his candidacy announcement. Some recognize it, in terms of sponsorship of mayors, the account is not there: between 200 and 250, we are told, an unverifiable figure. “The 250 mark should be crossed at the time of nomination“Says a member of the campaign team, just to show that half the way is done, since it takes 500 to be able to run.
And then Eric Zemmour wants, as he repeated, to choose his moment. It will not be a symbolic date, the hypothesis of an announcement a little before or a little after the LR congress is mentioned, but the exact date is kept secret: “You will see signs“Promises his entourage. Ten days ago, the future candidate gathered between 100 and 150 volunteers from his team in a Parisian room, the beginnings of the formation of a party. Thematic poles were created, discussion loops It is perhaps a sign that the “real bogus campaign” is coming to an end.