Eric Zemmour’s finger of honor: “fiasco”, “disqualified”… The gesture of the far-right polemicist at the center of criticism – Le Monde

“Fiasco”, “Disqualified”, call for ” dignity “… The exchange of fingers of honor far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour with an opponent was at the center of criticism Monday, November 29, two days after his failed visit to Marseille on Saturday.

The candidate for the nomination of the Republicans (LR) for the presidential election, Valérie Pécresse, estimated on Monday that the “Pre-application” Eric Zemmour was “Turning into a fiasco”, after his middle finger in Marseille on Saturday November 27, a “Totally unworthy gesture” according to the president of the Ile-de-France region. “Being President or President of the Republic cannot be improvised, it is a long road, you have to be able to take on responsibilities, you have to be able to be worthy of them”, she judged on LCI, before adding:

“Being president is a credibility. We entrust the President of the Republic with both the nuclear codes, so we cannot entrust them to someone impulsive, we entrust him with his savings, so he must be also a good manager, we entrust him the future of his children, he must be visionary and have a vision. It’s not just being monomaniac on a single topic, immigration. “

“You cannot improvise yourself as President of the Republic, you have to be dignified, you have to be respectful, you have to be up to the task”, criticized on the CNews channel Michel Barnier, another candidate for the nomination of LR.

“For a long time that he is disqualified”

Marine Le Pen, candidate of the National Rally (RN) for the presidential election, had estimated Sunday in the show The Grand Jury, than “In general, the transformation from polemicist into presidential candidate has not happened”, and that he “Does not seem very comfortable in this exercise”, in allusion to the rowdy trip of the polemicist to Marseille.

For the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot, invited to the RTL microphone on Monday morning, “He’s been disqualified for the presidential election for a long time”. “The middle finger, he’s been doing it to France for months, he’s been doing it to Muslims for months, he’s been doing it to Jews for months, he’s been doing it for months. he does it to the values ​​of the Republic ”, he hammered again, recalling that the far-right polemicist was “Condemned for racial hatred”.

Refusing to comment “The middle finger of someone who is not yet a presidential candidate”, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, called for “A little dignity”. “We are far from De Gaulle, if we could stay at an acceptable level, that would help politics”, he said on BFM-TV.

If Eric Zemmour recognized Sunday, November 28, on Twitter, a gesture “Very inelegant”, the far-right polemicist should formalize his candidacy for the presidential election in the coming days. He is also due to hold a first electoral meeting at the Zénith in Paris on December 5.

This gesture comes at the end of a strongly heckled trip and a series of blunders, in recent weeks, committed by the putative extreme right-wing contender in the presidential race. Among them, the image of him holding an unloaded high precision rifle and pointing journalists, at the Milipol fair on October 20, or that of November 13 at the Bataclan, day of commemoration of the 2015 attacks, marked the spirits.