Posted on 10/06/2021 9:45:05 PM PDT by RandFan
A far-Right French TV pundit who says immigrants should be forced to have French names has overtaken Marine Le Pen for the first time in the presidential race, according to a new poll which suggest he would face Emmanuel Macron in a runoff for the Elysee in April next year.
Eric Zemmour, 63, who holds convictions for inciting hatred, is threatening to upset the already unpredictable French political landscape with his diatribes against what he dubs the "great replacement" of white French by Muslims and the loss of French identity and traditional values, along with warnings of impending civil war.
He has siphoned off supporters of Ms Le Pen, who faced Macron in a run-off in 2017, and lies to the Right of her on the political spectrum, suggesting that French children born to immigrants should be forced to have French Christian names.
A Paris Match magazine cover shot of Mr Zemmour, who is married with three children, in an intimate embrace with a 28-year-old aide has only added to the media buzz around his potential presidential candidacy.
The Harris Interactive poll published on Wednesday showed Mr Zemmour winning 17 per cent (up 4 points on a late September poll) of voter support, beating Ms Le Pen on 15 per cent and any one of the three challengers vying for the centre-right ticket.
Mr Macron would then beat Mr Zemmour by 55 per cent to 45 per cent the second round, the poll showed.
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[[A far-Right French TV pundit who says immigrants should be forced to have French names]]
LOL too funny-
Precisely.
Using the misnomer “far right” . . . how far the (Red) Torygraph has fallen.
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Heh. This guy overtaking Marine Le Pen in the polls sounds like her dad's old campaigns, but ON STEROIDS. Gotta love the irony of that after she kicked the ol' man out of the party and tried to making National Front more "mainstream" and purge it of any fascist or neo-nazi elements.
It would be like Liz Cheney suddenly getting her butt kicked in the polls by a challenger who sounds like an UBER Dick Cheney, c. 2003 or so.
If so, I wonder if Zemmour is controlled opposition. A leftist puppet the media uses to siphon votes from Le Pen.
Third World immigrants should be deported back to their homelands. Changing their names -- while continuing their flood into France -- solves nothing.
Indeed, France is better off if immigrants are named Abdul Mohammed. That way, when a newspaper reports that "Frenchman Abdul Mohammed killed 23 in today's bomb attack...," then we'll know that it wasn't a real Frenchman.
Oh noes, not inciting hatred.
Glad the media said what people liked about him rather than mocking him.
“Far-Right TV host overtakes Le Pen in polls and could face Macron in presidential race”
Let me fix this title:
Far-Right TV host overtakes Le Pen in polls and could face far-left Macron in presidential race
He may be Jewish, but it doesn’t change the fact his rhetoric sounds like Jean-Marie Le Pen on steroids. Force Muslim immigrants to change their name to French Christian names? As I noted, it would be like if Liz Cheney faced a challenger who suggested she should be waterboarded for accepting Pelosi’s appointment to the Jan. 6th committee. Sounds like Dick Cheney on steroids!
A Paris Match magazine cover shot of Mr Zemmour, who is married with three children, in an intimate embrace with a 28-year-old aide has only added to the media buzz...
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Should give him a nice boost in the polls, this being France.
You’re right
Nope. A name change means nothing. Which is better:
1. Be polite to Muslims, but send them home.
2. Insult Muslims, but let them stay.
No 1 is meaningful. No 2. sounds tough but achieves nothing.
I wonder, are they running this candidate to achieve nothing other than to drain votes from Le Pen?
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