Éric Zemmour was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo “, Monday, November 22, 2021. His candidacy for the 2022 presidential election, purchasing power, the strategy against Covid-19 … He answers questions from Marc Fauvelle and Salhia Brakhlia.
Presidential candidacy: “It’s a matter of days”
“It’s a matter of days”, declares Eric Zemmour, questioned on the possible announcement of his candidacy for the presidential election. He will make this announcement when he decides, “it will come, don’t be impatient”, he adds, believing that “anything can still happen”.
Éric Zemmour then presented himself as the “alone in power” save France, “the only one with the courage and the determination to do it”, denouncing the fact that during his career as a political journalist, “a lot” politicians told him “in private, you are right” doing “quite the opposite in public”. “I tell myself that the situation is tragic, that my country can die, that it is in the process of no longer being France, of being replaced by another people and another civilization”, he denounces.
Covid-19: “We are doing too much”
“For a year and a half, we have played a lot with the fear of people, it is very excessive, we are doing too much and we have been doing too much from the start”, says Eric Zemmour, questioned about the Covid-19 epidemic. Whoever has not yet announced his presidential candidacy calls for “bring this epidemic to its proper extent”, considering moreover that “everyone is doing too much”, especially other European countries.
“During the first confinement, we had the impression that it was the blitz, that we were bombarded in London by the German army every day, and that is doing the government a service”, he continues. According to him, the health pass “is not a priority subject, it is a tactical skill of Emmanuel Macron and all the media” allowing to “change the subject” not to talk about the “major subject” which he considers to be immigration.
“Reserve” social minima for the French
“We take purchasing power from the wrong end”, says Éric Zemmour. According to him, “the country has become impoverished because the country has deindustrialised”. Asked about his proposals to fight against this observation, Éric Zemmour suggests “to start reindustrialization” and of “reduce the burden of social protection” who “prevents paying high wages”.
For “do not reduce the social model of the French”, Eric Zemmour wishes “may national solidarity become national again”. “I propose that non-contributory social expenditure, family allowances, housing allowances, minimum old age, RSA, be withdrawn from foreigners and be reserved for the French”, he declares.
Heritage: “An apartment for 1.3 million is not what we call rich”
According to Eric Zemmour, “People subject to the new form of wealth tax are often not particularly wealthy people, they just have a nice apartment in Paris.” The real estate wealth tax (IFI) concerns those whose net value of real estate assets exceeds 1.3 million (reduction of 30% deducted in the case of a main residence). Not enough to make “rich”, according to Eric Zemmour. “1.3 million in Paris is 100 square meters. It is not what we call rich. The rich, they have all the means, with their tax specialists, to get around this rule.”
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