“Better to be second”
But if at the polls the danger of a great Zemmourist replacement had already been ruled out for some time, the fear of being upstaged in extremis by Jean-Luc Mélenchon will have agitated the militant troop until the last minute. After 8 p.m. and what looks very much like the retirement of the leader of La France insoumise, it still remained to be known what position Marine Le Pen would occupy on this two-seater podium. Relieved, even if they already saw themselves at the top of the bill, many of his supporters will then have had the triumph and “La Marseillaise” modest. “Don’t write it down, but it’s better to be second than first,” grumbled his spokesperson, Thierry Mariani, behind the scenes. ” Why ? Because otherwise all the newspapers would have brandished the threat of chaos. “Point of exaltation therefore, except perhaps at the statement of the score of Eric Zemmour. It doesn’t matter if he was quick to call for Le Pen to vote, around the buffet revenge was a dish that could be tasted in all sauces. Where we will be particularly amused by the hangover that all these brothers who have become enemies will have to treat after having betrayed for the camp opposite, or rather right next to it. “The Nicolas Bay, Collard and company, out of the question that they come back with their tails between their legs”, warns a young activist.
“A big blow of the ball…”
That the voters of Zemmour naturally come to Marine Le Pen, yes, but neither he nor his close guard, we insist in the entourage of the candidate. “In any case, Marine repeated that none of them would have had the talent to become one of her ministers. And all the Sunday evening visitors swear to their great gods that they, at least, had never considered for a single moment leaving the ship at the height of the Zemmourist storm. A month and a half ago, a century, an eternity. “After all the pitfalls she has encountered since 2017 and this failed debate”, Marine confirms that she is the only possible alternation with Emmanuel Macron”, explains Jean-Paul Garraud, former UMP deputy for Gironde, promised to the guard post. Seals. “Here, another campaign is starting, but always on the same line, and without settling scores. In more militant language, hear this from Hugo, 22: “Now, this glass ceiling to which we are condemned, we are going to give it a big headbutt… But gently unlike Zemmour, and it is necessary with the reinforcement of the Insoumis. »
When a third of Melenchonist sympathizers had promised before the first round to cross the Rubicon in the second, the far-right candidate did not fail to encourage them in her short speech, thus calling on “right-wing voters, left, moreover, of all origins to join this great national and popular gathering”.
Already, the specter of the debate
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