Guest of the show We are live on France 2 on December 11, 2021, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire returned to his performance in Elysee 2022, political show in which he faced Eric Zemmour, presidential candidate with his far-right party, Reconquest!. Before developing his ideas, the minister of Emmanuel Macron can appreciate the compliments of the host Laurent Ruquier, who praises his performance against the former polemicist. However, his accomplice Léa Salamé wants to place Bruno Le Maire’s face-to-face with Eric Zemmour more precisely in context and takes the opportunity to make an update.
“We have to replace all that … That’s kind of the problem. Laurent, who does not share the ideas of Eric Zemmour and who does not hide it, finds Bruno Le Maire very well. (…) It’s true that it was a difficult show. I will say it simply, all the politicians who make it find that it is the most difficult emission because it is 180 degrees, it is during two hours that they are questioned. But even Eric Zemmour came out saying ‘it was on the regular’. I want to say thatwe did not do low blows. Your debate with him was very bitter“, says Léa Salamé to Bruno Le Maire to describe their intervention on television.
The tension was indeed great on the set ofElysee 2022 between Eric Zemmour and the minister, but also with Léa Salamé who did not hesitate to reframe his guest. On social networks, Raphaël Glucksmann’s companion has been the target of criticism from the support of the reactionary ex-polemicist, very active on social networks. They accused her in particular of being snarling and aggressive towards the guest.
The two personalities have known each other for a long time having collaborated together on the show It argues and to have been each in the armchair of sniper of the show We are not in bed, already presented by Laurent Ruquier. The journalist had interviewed in 2014 the essayist who had returned to the show for which he officiated for five seasons to promote his book The French Suicide and their exchange was also bitter.