Eric Zemmour candidate for the 2022 presidential election to “save France” – LCI

The music, the staging, the tone: nothing was left to chance in Eric Zemmour’s candidacy video, posted this Tuesday at 12:05 p.m. on his YouTube channel. In a speech of ten minutes, the polemicist put an end to a false suspense and officially announced his participation in the next presidential election. “It is no longer the time to reform France, but to save it, which is why I decided to run for the presidential election” and “to solicit your votes to become your President of the Republic”, did he declare.

Sitting in front of a library filled with old books and behind a microphone, an assumed parallel with General de Gaulle’s Appeal of June 18, Eric Zemmour read his statement, rarely looking up at the camera. The music on which he began his speech was also heavy with symbols: the 2nd movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony is used in The speech of a king, film telling the story of Elizabeth II’s father, George VI, and used by the director as the latter announces the start of World War II and overcomes his stuttering.

Basically, Eric Zemmour has shown himself faithful to the theses he has defended for years, brandishing the threats of the “great replacement”, the Islamization of France and a feminization of society, explaining himself. “so that our children and our grandchildren do not know barbarism, so that our daughters are not veiled and our sons are not submitted, so that we can transmit to them France as we have known and received it from our ancestors, (…) so that the French remain proud of their past and confident in their future, so that the French feel at home again and so that the latest arrivals assimilate to their culture, appropriate their story “.

On images of France in the 1950s or recent urban violence and riots – no less than 15 excerpts – he referred to a “strange and penetrating feeling of dispossession”, addressed those who have “the impression of no longer being in the country” that they know. “You haven’t moved and yet you feel like you’re not at home anymore. You haven’t left your country, but it’s as if your country has left you. You feel like a foreigner in your own country, you are exiles from within “, did he declare.

To restore the “greatness” of France, Eric Zemmour proposes to reindustrialize the country, to protect its technological treasures, but also to “restore our republican school, its excellence, its cult of merit”, of “stop handing over our children to the egalitarian experiences of pedagogists and Folamour doctors of gender theories and Islamogauchism”. He wants “give power back to the people” and “to regain our sovereignty abandoned to technocrats and European judges who have stripped the French people of their ability to decide their fate in the name of the chimeras of a Europe that will never be a Nation”.

Finally, the candidate’s speech sometimes took on the air of conspirators, especially when he accused the “rulers on the right as well as on the left” having “lied”, “concealed the truth of our downgrading” and “hidden the reality of our replacement”, or warned that“they” – surely the “elites”, journalists, trade unionists, politicians or academics cited elsewhere by the polemicist – would say to his supporters that they are “racist” and “driven by sad passions”, expression already used by Emmanuel Macron. For Eric Zemmour, it is because no “politician” not grabbed “of the torch” that he was transmitting to him and did not want to believe in the report he drew up, that he “decided to take our destiny in hand”.