“When we want a right that does what it says, we go towards Eric Zemmour”, said Antoine Diers, spokesperson for the party of the ex-polemicist, Reconquête !, Sunday January 9 on franceinfo. The now ex-LR Guillaume Peltier has indeed announced on Twitter to support Eric Zemmour in the 2022 presidential election. Dismissed from his post as vice-president of the Les Républicains party in December, he is preparing to be appointed spokesperson for the campaign of far-right candidate.
franceinfo: What added value will Guillaume Peltier bring to your training?
Antoine Diers : Guillaume Peltier is an extremely interesting politically, very clever, clever person. And above all, he is a man of conviction. He is showing the way to all Republican voters. When we want a right that does what it says, we go to Eric Zemmour. Guillaume Peltier was excluded from the Republicans, he was withdrawn from his post of vice-president as soon as he explained that Eric Zemmour was someone interesting, right-wing, conviction. I think this is quite significant in the way LR, the party of which I am a member, looks more towards the center, even sometimes even towards the left. Eric Zemmour has no career plan, is not a politician, he is not a professional politician. I say to all the activists and all the LR voters: “Join Eric Zemmour. You have in him a courageous right-wing candidate, without compromise with Macron”.
Is this call really heard? Because apart from Philippe de Villiers and Guillaume Peltier, Éric Zemmour has difficulty rallying strong personalities …
We were in Vendée yesterday, and Éric Zemmour was surrounded by Philippe de Villiers and Patrick Buisson. I think that there are many personalities of this right of conviction, it is certain. It is certain that the deputies who go to the mess, who do not have solidity in the ideas and who seek a career, they do not come to us. Either way, we don’t need it. We don’t need to relaunch the campaign. We were in Châteaudun the day before yesterday, in front of 1,580 people. Yesterday at Sables-d’Olonne, more than 800 people came. There is a dynamic on the right to support Éric Zemmour.
It also goes less well in some cities, such as Marseille …
It did not go very well in Marseille because of the antifas, the extreme left which attacks us because we are the most able to unite on the right.
In a survey published on January 8 for franceinfo, Eric Zemmour is struggling to take off. Are you worried ?
Regarding polls, there are several. Others showed a form of dynamic! What I see is that Eric Zemmour is today in a central position among the entire right-wing electorate. It is the only one able to unite the rights. Marine Le Pen cannot beat Emmanuel Macron, nor Valérie Pécresse. Eric Zemmour, with his central position at the heart of all the right-wing electorates, is able to bring together the courageous voters of the National Rally and the Republicans, but also a certain number of abstainers. Opinion polls show it: abstentionists are returning to vote for Eric Zemmour.