Isolated, less good polls, heckled visits: the difficulties accumulate for Eric Zemmour – BFMTV

Eric Zemmour is in Marseille this weekend, a few days away from a probable declaration of candidacy for the presidential election. But this visit is not a triumphant march and further exposes the growing isolation of the polemicist, overwhelmed more by half-mast polls.

Irresistible climbs and then troughs: we know that a presidential campaign is not linear. And that – still unofficial – of Eric Zemmour now clearly skates.

A few weeks ago, personal themes imposed on the front of the stage in triumphant polls, the essayist seemed to be walking on water and incidentally on his rival Marine Le Pen and the suitors of the right. But while his declaration of candidacy seems imminent, he is now going from rut to rut: trips that no longer work, political friends who turn away from him, lack of financial support, poorer polls, etc. There are many illustrations that highlight the difficulties of the putative candidate.

A moment of solitude

To believe him, nothing alarming. While he is visiting Marseille this weekend, Eric Zemmour’s ride was first thwarted by a procession of his detractors and anti-fascist protesters. “It was simply parasitized by people who are well organized activists. We are used to it,” only punctuated the polemicist facing journalists on Friday. Admittedly, this isn’t quite the first time that one of his outings has been disrupted by a host of political opponents. But this time, however, it gives the impression of razing down the walls. 15 short minutes of wandering, without any interaction with the residents. “There were very few shops open and no one offered me so we walked. (…) I didn’t want to disturb people, there was no one in the streets,” he said. he tried to justify.

“It’s amazing that a probable candidate cannot talk to or get in touch with the inhabitants!” however exclaimed on our set this Saturday the head of RMC’s political service, Jérémy Trottin. And the welcoming committee which shook up Eric Zemmour’s trip to Marseille on Friday turned into a thunderous departure delegation this Saturday in Saint-Charles station where he re-embarked for Paris. The unfortunate traveler had to pass, head bowed, in front of a crowd chanting slogans not very friendly to him, as shown by the images tweeted by our journalist dispatched to the site.

This featureless rendezvous ending in a fishtail illustrates the loneliness of a herald of the “anti-system” who appears above all as a man without a device. “The criticism that we hear today around Eric Zemmour is: ‘We are not professional enough, we lack the world to organize these trips,’ ‘continues Jérémy Trottin. “A lot of difficulties accumulate, the loss of financial and political support. Some mayors who planned to sponsor him are in the process of retracting to sponsor Marine Le Pen “.

Doubt rises among his friends

Recently, even his closest ideological and personal ones have tended to frown. The disenchantment began on November 13 with the arrival of Eric Zemmour in front of the Bataclan, on the sad anniversary of the carnage six years ago. This display on the scene of a national mourning, his hostile words to François Hollande whom he accused of having known “that terrorists would be infiltrated among the migrants” without “stopping the flow” have outraged even the mayor of Béziers , Robert Ménard. Invited on our antenna on November 18, he took the opportunity to denounce a projection “not up to the task” of an aspirant to the supreme office.

“You can not say, at the time of a trial, there is the trial of the Bataclan, the place which embodies the suffering of these people, to have words of political politics”, estimated the Occitan, adding again: ” I think it ends up scaring what Eric says. “

In any case, they scared Philippe de Villiers. Faithful among the faithful – to the point of leaving Albin Michel to protest against the publisher’s decision not to publish the last work of the former political journalist of the Figaro – the Vendéen will finally fail his friend and at a crucial moment: the big meeting, next Sunday, December 5, of Eric Zemmour at the Zénith in Paris. Philippe de Villiers did not hide from him, as revealed Point this week, fear “that too much support will harm the reputation of the Puy-du-Fou park”.

A campaign “too dirty”?

A withdrawal all the more embarrassing for Éric Zemmour as the Zénith event must follow a few days, in principle, to an official declaration of candidacy. A statement of which we still do not know everything, except that it has been awaited for a long time by its supporters … to the point of even making them impatient and showing a form of misunderstanding.

This time, it is the very motivation of the author of the French suicide who questions. “Some believe that he does not like this type of campaign. For him, campaigning is ‘a little dirty’ told me one of his relatives recently”, slipped Jérémy Trottin this Saturday. And his misadventure the day before must have reinforced this idea. People magazine Close disclosed the pregnancy of his partner and advisor Sarah Knafo, immediately leading to the filing of a complaint by Eric Zemmour who considers that his privacy has been violated.

Communicating vessels

It is generally in these kinds of circumstances that the vases communicate. While Eric Zemmour crosses an area of ​​heavy weather, the clouds lighten above the heads of his direct challengers. The candidates for the designation of the Republicans advance towards their congress of December 4 – which will definitively clarify their situation – in a relative serenity, and Marine Le Pen has found its going in the polls.

On Wednesday, our Elabe “Opinion 2022” poll thus gauged the voting intentions in favor of Marine Le Pen between 20 and 22 points depending on the case, up from two to four points. Eric Zemmour is no longer measured between 12 and 15%, down two points. After an unprecedented dynamic, its progress came to an abrupt halt, as shown by our poll aggregator, the Élyséemètre.