Eric Zemmour: flattering polls, an imminent candidacy? – Linternaute.com

ZEMMOUR SURVEY. The formalization of Eric Zemmour’s candidacy for the presidential election could be done very soon, while the polemicist is supported by the polls, some of which send him to the second round.

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The journalist does not hide it, he will play a role in this presidential campaign. On August 28, he said without batting an eyelid that he “wanted” to unite the rights. For now, it is as an essayist that he wants to “meet the French”. It is moreover to promote his book, to increase the signing sessions and even public meetings that he had decided at the beginning of September to put his collaboration with Le Figaro. The newspaper had fixed a red line for him a few weeks ago: if his political inclinations were too assertive, he should stop commenting on the news in the media. September 28, The Parisian revealed that Eric Zemmour already has at his disposal a large country room, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, rented by the association of friends of Eric Zemmour. The polemicist no longer hides that he has around him people who seek to collect sponsorships from elected officials to validate his candidacy. According to Europe 1 and Liberation, Eric Zemmour should formalize his candidacy for the presidential election in early November.

Will Eric Zemmour come and dynamise the presidential campaign and reshuffle all the cards? While he did not declare himself a candidate in the ballot, the polemicist is identified as an actor in political life, all the more so since he has increased the number of trips and speaking engagements. Direct consequence: pollsters include it in their opinion polls. And his presence shows a real attraction of a part of the voters for those who come to walk on the identity ground of which the (quasi) monopoly returned until then to Marine Le Pen. But the ideas of the former journalist infuse public opinion. To the point that, just credited with 5.5% of the vote on June 9 (Ifop poll), Eric Zemmour is now given around 17% in voting intentions, sometimes given in front of Marine Le Pen.

Obviously, to the right of the right, and more specifically to the RN, the idea that Eric Zemmour could weaken Marine Le Pen’s campaign annoys. Especially since according to a YouGov survey for Internet users, dated February, the polemicist is perceived as a better candidate for the sovereignist right by right-wing supporters.

Thursday 23 September 2021, Paris Match has put on sale its weekly issue with, on the cover, a photo of Eric Zemmour bathing in the sea, alongside his advisor Sarah Knafo. A cliché which, since its publication, continues to fuel discussions on the link between the possible candidate for the 2022 presidential election and the one who is on all his travels. “Lining, smiling and collegial”, “woman in the shadows”, “the one who whispers in Eric Zemmour’s ear” … Over the pages, the weekly paints a portrait of this 28-year-old Enarque, invested in 2016 with Henri Guaino when he was planning to embark on the race for the Elysee Palace and who was made available from his post at the Court of Auditors at the beginning of September to devote himself to the probable presidential destiny of the polemicist. here is also unveiled the same day an investigation, even evoking a “romance” between the two.

The investigation conducted by Paris Match was not to the taste of Eric Zemmour. He lambasted the magazine, calling it a “power poodle, try[ant] of [lui] to harm “, not without being moved by” begins[r] to worry enough “, while the latest Harris Interactive poll for Challenges credits him with 13% of voting intentions in the first round of the presidential election. His lawyers have also indicated that they are starting” proceedings against him without delay. these publications (Paris Match and Here). “

How did Eric Zemmour find himself on the front page of Paris Match ? According to Bruno Jeudy, editor-in-chief of the magazine, the photos were taken on Saturday September 18 by a “hidden” photographer. “Maybe behind a tree or in a beach cabin, I don’t know,” he said on RMC. And to assure: “It is about a stolen photo”. What to wring your neck at the idea of ​​a set-up? Not so sure. Because in an article published on Wednesday September 22, Release ensures that “Pascal Rostain (the photographer, editor’s note) followed them behind the scenes with their agreement.” For her part, the journalist Pauline de Saint-Rémy quotes a source in Politico indicating: “They had known for a few hours (before the newspaper appeared), they would have assigned ‘Match’ with a summary release if they wanted it not to come out…” Real paparazzi work or political coup? If the question is not clarified, the fact remains that Eric Zemmour is still talking about him.

On the front page of Paris Match, Eric Zemmour does not appear alone. The photo shows him bathing in the company of a woman. This is Sarah Knafo. Aged 28, it is she who drives the polemicist’s tour and who should therefore, if he officially launches himself, take the lead of his campaign for the presidential election of 2022. Very discreet until then, she is is found under the lights of the cameras while being of all the movements of the probable candidate. Graduated from ENA in 2017, she had the luxury of choosing the body of state that she wanted to join at the end of her studies. His choice was directed towards the Court of Auditors. But at the beginning of September, she was made available to devote herself fully to the former journalist.

This is not the first political adventure in which Sarah Knafo is embarking on. In 2016, she was alongside Henri Guaino when the latter began to dream of a presidential ambition. At the same time, she met Eric Zemmour, in particular by organizing meetings at his home which saw Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Laurent Wauquiez or the one she now constantly accompanies. Is their relationship limited to strict political advice? According to here is, the two would live a “romance” while Eric Zemmour has been married to Mylène Chichportich for nearly forty years.

It might seem surprising to make the origins of Eric Zemmour – like any other public figure – a piece of information. But the polemicist very clearly poses the question of the identity and integration of foreigners, advocating the need for assimilation. He himself claims to have accepted to break with part of the culture of his grandparents and his parents. Eric Zemmour was born in Montreuil in 1958, 6 years after his parents, Arab Jews, left Algeria.