The Kremlin has anointed a new favourite in the French presidential election: Éric Zemmour, the far-right insurgent campaigner who says that Moscow is far more reliable than the Americans, the British or the Germans.
After gushing coverage by Kremlin-backed media of the polemicist’s rise in polls to second or third place, a Moscow think tank close to President Putin has endorsed him, saying he could bring Russia into a new European order.
“Given his growing popularity, it is conceivable that Zemmour can beat [President] Macron,” said Russtrat, a foreign policy institute run by Elena Vladimirovna Panina, a prominent MP in Putin’s United Russia party. “Then it is possible that we will see an alliance of Moscow, Paris and Berlin, which will confront the Anglo-Saxons led by the United States and Great Britain.”
•Éric Zemmour, the rabble-rouser dividing France’s Jewish population
After her two failed runs at the presidency Moscow’s ruling circles have given up on Marine Le Pen, the National Rally leader whom they courted and strongly backed to beat Macron in 2017, say Russian insiders. She has been asked to repay a €10 million loan from a Russian-owned bank made to her party, then named National Front, in 2014.
While Le Pen, 53, has distanced herself from Putin to broaden her appeal, the pro-Russian Zemmour is a godsend for the Kremlin. “Zemmour’s leaning towards Russia and his admiration for Vladimir Putin, which he declares openly, is the fulfilment of the Kremlin’s wildest dreams,” said L’Obs, the French centre-left magazine. Desk Russie, a French Russian news site, said: “Moscow is betting on a new horse in the next presidential election.” Zemmour’s nationalist views are “very largely shared by the Putin regime”, it added.
Zemmour subscribes to the French right-wing view that the US and Britain have plotted since the end of the Second World War to isolate Moscow and prevent it from entering a pan-European community. As president, Charles de Gaulle adopted a milder version of the view in the 1960s when he called for a Europe “stretching from the Urals to the Atlantic”. He expelled American military bases, took France out of the Nato military structure and positioned his country as strategically equidistant from the Soviet Union and the US.
Zemmour, 63, a self-proclaimed disciple of de Gaulle, says he has a “natural affinity” for Russia. “My first reflex is to defend Russia . . . I am for alliance with Russia. I think that it would be the most reliable ally, more than the Americans, more than the Germans, more than the English,” he has said. “When we were with Russia, we won wars, when we were against Russia, we lost wars,” he recalled. He was apparently talking about the Second World War rather than the defeat of his hero Napoleon in 1812.
Putin, 69, is not expected to invite Zemmour for a visit, as he did with Le Pen. He is unlikely to offer overt support because he is aware that Zemmour’s chances of victory remain slim, but Russian interests will be served by bolstering his chances and disrupting the election through support from the French-language Kremlin-financed media, Russian and French analysts say.
The Kremlin was active in the 2017 election, cheering for Le Pen and François Fillon, the conservative who was favourite until his disgrace over the bogus employment of his British wife on parliamentary funds. The Kremlin media depicted him as a victim of dirty tricks.
Macron, 43, was incensed by Russa’s interference through public and social media and clandestine means. It was behind leaked files from his campaign team two days before the final round, France said. These included forgeries of supposed payments to offshore accounts. Macron has nevertheless tried to court Putin as a key player in Europe.
Tell me to not vote for Zemmour without telling me to not vote for Zemmour.
Ahh, the European far-right kingmaker has spoken.
Funny how these sovereignists are always the first one to throw themselves in the arm of autocratic political regime with try to interfere with the politic of their own country.
I’m shocked, shocked!
Did he take already credit in russian bank?
This is called subversion. This is what USSR/Russian has been doing for decades. The objective is to weaken western societies, their institutions and social cohesion.
If you live in the west and if you want to finance your cult or your new esoteric medicine, send an email to the russian secret services. They will finance you.
Guys i really don’t know his policies or ideas. Is he really “far-right” as the title describes him?
Why does this man look like he drinks child blood
>Friendship ended with Le Pen, now Zemmour is my best friend
Quelle surprise.
The empire dreamed by de Gaulle was in the context of the Cold War and, most importantly, one in which the European Union didn’t exist. There is already a grouping of countries sharing (somewhat) similar values that economically counterbalances the USA (and now the Brits!), it’s called the EU.
By wanting an “alliance of sovereign states”, people like Zemmour want their cake and eat it – and they completely miss the geopolitical configurations of today’s world. An alliance against whom? For trade only? Backed by which legal obligations? If trade only, then what would France gain from further cooperation with Russia that it wouldn’t lose by distancing itself from the EU (Zemmour isn’t a fan)? If it isn’t only for trade, wouldn’t sovereignty be lost as a result?
The best Zemmour can hope for is cheaper gas. I’d say better get Germany on board to recognise nuclear as clean energy rather than enter an alliance in which France would lose both on interests and reputation.
French trump is coming for the throne
Honest question: who decides who is far-right, right, centrist or left?
Denmark socialist government has currently a very tough politic against immigration.
Zemmour describes himself as “Gaulist” or “RPR” (the old Republican/Right-wing French party).
In the 80s, French Communist Party was calling for a total stop on immigration.
So why is Denmark described as leftist but Zemmour is “far-right”?
Le Pen in shambles.
Putin is backing all ennemies of France
So France’s Mr. Burns is pro-Russia? Shocker…not really.
Chaos and divisiveness within the EU is all Putin wants
I’m gonna wake up and Zemmour will just be a bad dream right? Right?
A think tank in Russia endorsing must mean Russia as a whole endorsing🙄
*Rolls eyes*
Of course. Can someone please wake me up when we support somebody who has a forward-looking progressive liberal stance and doesn’t sit around jerking off to this traditional values shit.
Good fucking grief!
One should realize it’s not a good sign when he gets backing from a country interested in a weak Europe.
Ugh….makes me wanna throw up
Brexit-Trump-COVID-Afghanistan —-what’s next? lol
Sad LePen noises her sugar daddy has a new fave
Putin and his wet dream of his anti western alliance with france and berlin and with him at the pole position. But Putin’s wet dream is and was and never will be anything more than a moisturous brown fart. It’s like a freak show, the politicians he endorses…
长得不像好人
Man looks like a fairy tell villan with that hella big forehead
When Russia supports anything or anyone, it’s wise to go for the opposite.
Question to French voters:
1. What is his chance of winning at the moment?
2. How concerned should the world be if he wins?
Marine: ” PDM Vladimir, all these years of loyal service to you and you leave me in an eye bat, for a filthy Jew, nonetheless!”
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The Kremlin has anointed a new favourite in the French presidential election: Éric Zemmour, the far-right insurgent campaigner who says that Moscow is far more reliable than the Americans, the British or the Germans.
After gushing coverage by Kremlin-backed media of the polemicist’s rise in polls to second or third place, a Moscow think tank close to President Putin has endorsed him, saying he could bring Russia into a new European order.
“Given his growing popularity, it is conceivable that Zemmour can beat [President] Macron,” said Russtrat, a foreign policy institute run by Elena Vladimirovna Panina, a prominent MP in Putin’s United Russia party. “Then it is possible that we will see an alliance of Moscow, Paris and Berlin, which will confront the Anglo-Saxons led by the United States and Great Britain.”
•Éric Zemmour, the rabble-rouser dividing France’s Jewish population
After her two failed runs at the presidency Moscow’s ruling circles have given up on Marine Le Pen, the National Rally leader whom they courted and strongly backed to beat Macron in 2017, say Russian insiders. She has been asked to repay a €10 million loan from a Russian-owned bank made to her party, then named National Front, in 2014.
While Le Pen, 53, has distanced herself from Putin to broaden her appeal, the pro-Russian Zemmour is a godsend for the Kremlin. “Zemmour’s leaning towards Russia and his admiration for Vladimir Putin, which he declares openly, is the fulfilment of the Kremlin’s wildest dreams,” said L’Obs, the French centre-left magazine. Desk Russie, a French Russian news site, said: “Moscow is betting on a new horse in the next presidential election.” Zemmour’s nationalist views are “very largely shared by the Putin regime”, it added.
Zemmour subscribes to the French right-wing view that the US and Britain have plotted since the end of the Second World War to isolate Moscow and prevent it from entering a pan-European community. As president, Charles de Gaulle adopted a milder version of the view in the 1960s when he called for a Europe “stretching from the Urals to the Atlantic”. He expelled American military bases, took France out of the Nato military structure and positioned his country as strategically equidistant from the Soviet Union and the US.
Zemmour, 63, a self-proclaimed disciple of de Gaulle, says he has a “natural affinity” for Russia. “My first reflex is to defend Russia . . . I am for alliance with Russia. I think that it would be the most reliable ally, more than the Americans, more than the Germans, more than the English,” he has said. “When we were with Russia, we won wars, when we were against Russia, we lost wars,” he recalled. He was apparently talking about the Second World War rather than the defeat of his hero Napoleon in 1812.
Putin, 69, is not expected to invite Zemmour for a visit, as he did with Le Pen. He is unlikely to offer overt support because he is aware that Zemmour’s chances of victory remain slim, but Russian interests will be served by bolstering his chances and disrupting the election through support from the French-language Kremlin-financed media, Russian and French analysts say.
The Kremlin was active in the 2017 election, cheering for Le Pen and François Fillon, the conservative who was favourite until his disgrace over the bogus employment of his British wife on parliamentary funds. The Kremlin media depicted him as a victim of dirty tricks.
Macron, 43, was incensed by Russa’s interference through public and social media and clandestine means. It was behind leaked files from his campaign team two days before the final round, France said. These included forgeries of supposed payments to offshore accounts. Macron has nevertheless tried to court Putin as a key player in Europe.
Tell me to not vote for Zemmour without telling me to not vote for Zemmour.
Ahh, the European far-right kingmaker has spoken.
Funny how these sovereignists are always the first one to throw themselves in the arm of autocratic political regime with try to interfere with the politic of their own country.
I’m shocked, shocked!
Did he take already credit in russian bank?
This is called subversion. This is what USSR/Russian has been doing for decades. The objective is to weaken western societies, their institutions and social cohesion.
If you live in the west and if you want to finance your cult or your new esoteric medicine, send an email to the russian secret services. They will finance you.
Guys i really don’t know his policies or ideas. Is he really “far-right” as the title describes him?
Why does this man look like he drinks child blood
>Friendship ended with Le Pen, now Zemmour is my best friend
Quelle surprise.
The empire dreamed by de Gaulle was in the context of the Cold War and, most importantly, one in which the European Union didn’t exist. There is already a grouping of countries sharing (somewhat) similar values that economically counterbalances the USA (and now the Brits!), it’s called the EU.
By wanting an “alliance of sovereign states”, people like Zemmour want their cake and eat it – and they completely miss the geopolitical configurations of today’s world. An alliance against whom? For trade only? Backed by which legal obligations? If trade only, then what would France gain from further cooperation with Russia that it wouldn’t lose by distancing itself from the EU (Zemmour isn’t a fan)? If it isn’t only for trade, wouldn’t sovereignty be lost as a result?
Finally, Russia is a “reliable ally” for what exactly? It’s not like they’ve proved to be particularly supportive of France’s ambitions (see [Russia’s propaganda wars against France in CAR](https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20210608-france-accuses-car-of-complicity-in-disinformation-campaign-suspends-support-russia-wagner-mercenaries-social-media-politics-protests) or its [attempt to kick out France from Mali](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58751423)).
The best Zemmour can hope for is cheaper gas. I’d say better get Germany on board to recognise nuclear as clean energy rather than enter an alliance in which France would lose both on interests and reputation.
French trump is coming for the throne
Honest question: who decides who is far-right, right, centrist or left?
Denmark socialist government has currently a very tough politic against immigration.
Zemmour describes himself as “Gaulist” or “RPR” (the old Republican/Right-wing French party).
In the 80s, French Communist Party was calling for a total stop on immigration.
So why is Denmark described as leftist but Zemmour is “far-right”?
Le Pen in shambles.
Putin is backing all ennemies of France
So France’s Mr. Burns is pro-Russia? Shocker…not really.
Chaos and divisiveness within the EU is all Putin wants
I’m gonna wake up and Zemmour will just be a bad dream right? Right?
A think tank in Russia endorsing must mean Russia as a whole endorsing🙄
*Rolls eyes*
Of course. Can someone please wake me up when we support somebody who has a forward-looking progressive liberal stance and doesn’t sit around jerking off to this traditional values shit.
Good fucking grief!
One should realize it’s not a good sign when he gets backing from a country interested in a weak Europe.
Ugh….makes me wanna throw up
Brexit-Trump-COVID-Afghanistan —-what’s next? lol
Sad LePen noises her sugar daddy has a new fave
Putin and his wet dream of his anti western alliance with france and berlin and with him at the pole position. But Putin’s wet dream is and was and never will be anything more than a moisturous brown fart. It’s like a freak show, the politicians he endorses…
长得不像好人
Man looks like a fairy tell villan with that hella big forehead
When Russia supports anything or anyone, it’s wise to go for the opposite.
Question to French voters:
1. What is his chance of winning at the moment?
2. How concerned should the world be if he wins?
Marine: ” PDM Vladimir, all these years of loyal service to you and you leave me in an eye bat, for a filthy Jew, nonetheless!”