With the prelude to Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony in a semi-dark room, surrounded by old books and in front of a microphone emulating a radio message, the journalist Eric Zemmour announces his presidential candidacy to reach the Elysee Palace.
After the video was released, some media say that this moment evokes the message that General Charles De Gaulle issued on June 18, 1940 from the BBC in London calling for resistance against the Nazi occupation.
However, it could also be a gesture to Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of France collaborating with Nazi Germany, who four months after De Gaulle’s message, would announce his collaboration with the Third Reich and participate in the deportation of the Jews to the extermination camps, a figure that Zemmour has no qualms about claiming.
France, on the brink of collapse
Of Jewish and Algerian origin, after a long career in journalism, Eric Zemmour draws a France on the brink of political collapse as a consequence of the failure of traditional politicians of “left and right” and, economically, caused by “elitist decisions and technocrats from the European Union ”.
Although these two aspects are key in his political discourse, the fear of the loss of French identity is what really injects vitality into his speech, which warns of the collapse of French civilization.
The idea of a France in decline is the justification for reaping the meaning “foreigners in their own country”, praising “the land of Victor Hugo, Chateaubriand, Descartes, Bonaparte, Voltaire, Briggite Bardot, Belmondo or Aznavour”, or promoting the theory conspiracy of the “great replacement”.
France has not said its last word
La France n’a pas dit son dernier mot (“France has not said its last word”), is the title of his latest book. There are still doubts as to whether whoever was a columnist in Le Figaro for more than ten years and a regular gathering at CNews will go from attracting media attention to getting votes and will surpass the far-right Marine Le Pen of the National Group and manage to face Emmanuel Macron in a Second round.
Zemmour’s dilemma will consist of capturing Le Pen’s electorate, that of the traditional French right concentrated in the Republicans, who, so far, have no candidate and are not growing in the polls, or a simply anti-elite electorate. that leaves aside the ideological traces.
On December 8, 1813, Ludwig van Beethoven premiered the Seventh Symphony. Two months earlier, the allied army of the United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Prussia and other small German states, would defeat the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
In the following days, the retreating French army would defeat the Austro-Bavarian forces of Karl Philipp von Wrede at the Pyrrhic Battle of Hanau. In 1814, Napoleon would sign his surrender and resignation from the government of France. Zemmour perhaps thinks more of Hanau than of Leipzig.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx