According to the leaks a few tens of minutes before the rally, it was going to be a 10-letter name word, starting with R and ending with E. “Resistance”, as some thought? No, Eric Zemmour’s new party will be called “Reconquest”. This is, according to our information confirming those of BFMTV, what the polemicist is to announce this Sunday, during his first major campaign meeting.
On the website of the National Institute of Industrial Property (Inpi), a trademark registration for this term “Reconquest” was made by Gilbert Payet, a prefect who became Eric Zemmour’s “technical and legal adviser”.
The campaign is gaining momentum for the polemicist, who formalized his presidential candidacy on Tuesday evening. Three days later, he unveiled his campaign slogan, “Impossible is not French.”
I genuinely love this new French political trend towards imperative naming.
That being said, I can’t imagine anything more reactionary and passive than “reconquest”,. Okay, fine, you’re far-right and are all about the language of war and greatness. But this feels more like something aimed for nostalgic saccharine octogenarians, than anyone aiming at…you know…actual conquest, no “re” involved.
edit: Cards on the table though, I’m more towards En Marche as a foreigner. Has all the features of the right-wing I might agree with, without needing to buy the dogmatic bullshit of either global liberalism or national chauvinism.
Together with the crusades, the rhetoric of ‘Reconquista’ serves to the political discourse of the contemporary far right in Spain, Portugal and, more broadly, Europe.[67] References to Reconquista and crusade are often allegorically played as internet meme by 21st-century online far-right groups to convey Anti-Muslim sentiments.[68] The theme has been used as main rallying point by identitarian groups in France and Italy.[69] The commemoration of the surrender of Sultan Boabdil in Granada on 2 January every year acquired a markedly nationalist undertone after the early years of the Francoist regime and, following the death of the dictator in 1975, it has served as glue for extreme right groups by facilitating their open-air physical gathering and providing an occasion to make explicit their political demands.[70] The far right has also waged a culture war by claiming Reconquista dates such as the aforementioned 2 January or 2 February regional festivities for the related autonomous communities (Andalusia and Murcia).[70]
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It is the most efficient casus belli after all.
Apropos I suppose. The Irish Examiner is suggesting that there was violence at this event, the article itself is fairly superficial, what are the French accounts reporting?
Edit: Found the Twitter video, organisers ought to have anticipated that and planned accordingly; happened at the anti-racism protests in 2020.
It’s weird because he’s a Berber Jew
Spaniards be afraid
Oh, I’d expect rerevolution
liberate us from lib soys zemmour
His greatest challenge is to fire a few French civil servants. If he does this, and the whole country doesn’t descend into street violence, then I’d be happy to see him elected.
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According to the leaks a few tens of minutes before the rally, it was going to be a 10-letter name word, starting with R and ending with E. “Resistance”, as some thought? No, Eric Zemmour’s new party will be called “Reconquest”. This is, according to our information confirming those of BFMTV, what the polemicist is to announce this Sunday, during his first major campaign meeting.
On the website of the National Institute of Industrial Property (Inpi), a trademark registration for this term “Reconquest” was made by Gilbert Payet, a prefect who became Eric Zemmour’s “technical and legal adviser”.
The campaign is gaining momentum for the polemicist, who formalized his presidential candidacy on Tuesday evening. Three days later, he unveiled his campaign slogan, “Impossible is not French.”
I genuinely love this new French political trend towards imperative naming.
That being said, I can’t imagine anything more reactionary and passive than “reconquest”,. Okay, fine, you’re far-right and are all about the language of war and greatness. But this feels more like something aimed for nostalgic saccharine octogenarians, than anyone aiming at…you know…actual conquest, no “re” involved.
edit: Cards on the table though, I’m more towards En Marche as a foreigner. Has all the features of the right-wing I might agree with, without needing to buy the dogmatic bullshit of either global liberalism or national chauvinism.
A legacy… [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista)
Far-right motif
Together with the crusades, the rhetoric of ‘Reconquista’ serves to the political discourse of the contemporary far right in Spain, Portugal and, more broadly, Europe.[67] References to Reconquista and crusade are often allegorically played as internet meme by 21st-century online far-right groups to convey Anti-Muslim sentiments.[68] The theme has been used as main rallying point by identitarian groups in France and Italy.[69] The commemoration of the surrender of Sultan Boabdil in Granada on 2 January every year acquired a markedly nationalist undertone after the early years of the Francoist regime and, following the death of the dictator in 1975, it has served as glue for extreme right groups by facilitating their open-air physical gathering and providing an occasion to make explicit their political demands.[70] The far right has also waged a culture war by claiming Reconquista dates such as the aforementioned 2 January or 2 February regional festivities for the related autonomous communities (Andalusia and Murcia).[70]
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🇫🇷✊🏼
It is the most efficient casus belli after all.
Apropos I suppose. The Irish Examiner is suggesting that there was violence at this event, the article itself is fairly superficial, what are the French accounts reporting?
Edit: Found the Twitter video, organisers ought to have anticipated that and planned accordingly; happened at the anti-racism protests in 2020.
It’s weird because he’s a Berber Jew
Spaniards be afraid
Oh, I’d expect rerevolution
liberate us from lib soys zemmour
His greatest challenge is to fire a few French civil servants. If he does this, and the whole country doesn’t descend into street violence, then I’d be happy to see him elected.