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Éric Zemmour’s Declaration of His Candidacy in France’s 2022 Presidential Election
Éric Zemmour
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The French conservative journalist, pundit, and writer Éric Zemmour announced his candidacy for the presidency of France against current President Emmanuel Macron and National Rally’s Marine Le Pen in next year’s election, which will be held on April 10, in a video statement he released yesterday on YouTube. The following is a translation of his statement.
My dear Countrymen — For years, the same feeling has swept you along, oppressed you, shamed you: a strange and penetrating feeling of dispossession. You walk down the streets in your towns, and you don’t recognize them.
You look at your screens and they speak to you in a language that is strange, and in the end foreign. You turn your eyes and ears to advertisements, TV series, football matches, films, live performances, songs, and the schoolbooks of your children.
You take the subways and trains. You go to train stations and airports. You wait for your sons and your daughters outside their school. You take your mother to the emergency room.
You stand in line at the post office or the employment agency. You wait at a police station or a courthouse. And you have the impression that you are no longer in a country that you know.
You remember the country of your childhood. You remember the country that your parents told you about. You remember the country found in films and books. The country of Joan of Arc and Louis XIV. The country of Bonaparte and General de Gaulle.
The country of knights and ladies. The country of Victor Hugo and Chateaubriand. The country of Pascal and Descartes. The country of the fables of La Fontaine, the characters of Molière, and the verses of Racine.
The country of Notre Dame de Paris and of village church towers. The country of Gavroche and Cosette. The country of barricades and Versailles. The country of Pasteur and Lavoisier. The country of Voltaire and Rousseau, of Clemenceau and the soldiers of ’14, of de Gaulle and Jean Moulin. The country of Gabin and Delon; of Brigitte Bardot and Belmondo and Johnny and d’Aznavour and Brassens and Barbara; the films of Sautet and Verneuil.
This country — at the same time light-hearted and illustrious. This country — at the same time literary and scientific. This country — truly intelligent and one-of-a-kind. The country of the Concorde and nuclear power. The country that invented cinema and the automobile.
This country — that you search for everywhere with dismay. No, your children are homesick, without even having known this country that you cherish. And it is disappearing.
You haven’t left, and yet you have the feeling of no longer being at home. You have not left your country. Your country left you. You smell foreigners in your own country. You are internal exiles.
For a long time, you believed you were the only one to see, to hear, to think, to doubt. You were afraid to say it. You were ashamed of your feelings. For a long time, you dared not say what you are seeing, and above all you dared not see what you were seeing.
And then you said it to your wife. To your husband. To your children. To your father. To your mother. To your friends. To your coworkers. To your neighbors. And then to strangers. And you understood that your feeling of dispossession was shared by everyone.
France is no longer France, and everyone sees it.
Of course, they despised you: the powerful, the élites, the conformists, the journalists, the politicians, the professors, the sociologists, the union bosses, the religious authorities.
They told you it’s all a ploy, it’s all fake, it’s all wrong. But you understood in time that it was they who were a ploy, they who had it all wrong, they who did you wrong.
The disappearance of our civilization is not the only question that harasses us, although it towers over everything. Immigration is not the cause of all our problems, although it aggravates everything.
The third-worlding of our country and our people impoverishes as much as it disintegrates, ruins as much as it torments.
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It’s why you often have a hard time making ends meet. It’s why we must re-industrialize France. It’s why we must equalize the balance of trade.
It’s why we must reduce our growing debt, bring back to France our companies that left, give jobs to our unemployed.
It’s why we must protect our technological marvels and stop selling them to foreigners. It’s why we must allow our small businesses to live, and to grow, and to pass from generation to generation.
It’s why we must preserve our architectural, cultural, and natural heritage. It’s why we must restore our republican education, its excellence and its belief in merit, and stop surrendering our children to the experiments of egalitarians and pedagogists and the Doctor Strangeloves of gender theory and Islamo-leftism.
It’s why we must take back our sovereignty, abandoned to European technocrats and judges, who rob the French people of the ability to control their destiny in the name of a fantasy — a Europe that will never be a nation.
Yes, we must give power to the people, take it back from the minority that unceasingly tyrannizes the majority and from judges who substitute their judicial rulings for government of the people, for the people, by the people.
For decades, our elected officials of the Right and the Left have led us down this dire path of decline and decadence. Right and Left have lied and concealed the gravity of our diminishment. They have hidden from you the reality of our replacement.
You have known me for many years. You know what I say, what I diagnose, what I proclaim. I have long been content with the role of journalist, writer, Cassandra, whistleblower. Back then, I believed that a politician would take up the flame that I had lit.
I said to myself, to each his own job, to each his own role, to each his own fight. I have lost this illusion. Like you, I have lost confidence. Like you, I have decided to take our destiny in hand.
I saw that no politician had the courage to save our country from the tragic fate that awaits it. I saw that all these supposed professionals were, above all, impotent.
That President Macron, who had presented himself as an outsider, was in fact the synthesis of his two predecessors, or worse. That all the parties were contenting themselves with reforms, while time passes them by.
There is no more time to reform France — but there is time to save her. That is why I have decided to run for President.
I have decided to ask your votes to become your President of the Republic, so that our children and grandchildren do not know barbarism. So that our daughters are not veiled and our sons are not forced to submit.
So that we can bequeath to them the France we have known and that we received from our ancestors. So that we can still preserve our way of life, our traditions, our language, our conversations, our debates about history and fashion, our taste for literature and food.
So that the French remain French, proud of their past and confident in their future. So that the French once again feel at home. So that the newest arrivals assimilate their culture, adapt their history, and are remade as French in France — not foreigners in an unknown land.
We, the French, are a great nation. A great people. Our glorious past pleads for our future. Our soldiers have conquered Europe and the world.
Our writers and artists have aroused universal admiration. Our scientific discoveries and industrial production have stamped their epochs. The charm of our art de vivre excites longing and joy in all who taste it.
We have known great victories, and we have overcome cruel defeats. For a thousand years, we have been one of the powers who have written the
history of the world.
We are worthy of our ancestors. We will not allow ourselves to be mastered, vassalized, conquered, colonized. We will not allow ourselves to be replaced.
In front of us, a cold and determined monster rises up who seeks to dishonor us. They will say that you are racist. They will say that you are motivated by contemptible passions, when in fact it is the most lovely passion that animates you: passion for France.
They will say the worst about me. But I will keep going amidst the jeers, and I don’t care if they spit on me. I will never bow my head. For we have a mission to accomplish.
The French people have been intimidated, crippled, indoctrinated, blamed — but they lift up their heads, they drop the masks, they clear the air of lies, they hunt down these evil perjuries.
We are going to carry France on. We are going to pursue the beautiful and noble French adventure. We are going to pass the flame to the coming generations. Join with me. Rise up. We, the French, have always triumphed over all.
Long live the Republic, and above all, long live France!
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43 comments
An excellent statement from Zemmour. A few words could be adjusted here and there and it would apply very well to any nation in the West.
Indeed. A very strong statement. I am still waiting for the American version of Zemmour.
“Indeed. A very strong statement.
And the fact that the statement could be released publicly is a cause for hope. It will ring true for a lot of people who haven’t had a voice.
“I am still waiting for the American version of Zemmour.”
From your mouth to God’s ears.
Although I think it is too late.
Actually, we do have the half-white, half-Indian gentleman from Arkansas who clearly knows what’s what, but I still think it is too late for the U.S.
That said, I like the thought of these individuals acting like bees in the globalists’ bonnets, even if they aren’t European white.
We, the French, have always triumphed over all.
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Yes, of course. And have taken Berlin, both 1870 and 1940.
That is too literalist. I think the point is that France’s defeats were temporary. As is the current one of multicult and LGBT and all the rest that she has suffered the last few decades. The nationalist sentiment is much stronger in France than in Germany.
I would not say that the French defeats were temporary. Zemmour as an ALGERIAN Jew must know that his favourite De Gaulle has lost Algeria, and it was not a colony like Indochine, but “département d’outre-mer”, i.e. a part of the France itself. And now the Algerians and other Maghreb Arabs dominate in France, and not the French in North Africa. It is not a temporary defeat. More, it is a bigger defeat, than the Germans´defeat of 1945, because the French did not lost any war to Arabs, but surrendered their country to them without any kind of military occupation.
Anyway I would agree that Zemmour is better than Macron, but I do not like, for example, that he´s a Putin´s fan.
Putin fan? Citation please. Of course, nowadays recognizing that Putin for all his faults, at least looks after his own (unlike western leaders) and is not our biggest threat = carrying water for Vlad.
On the subject of Algeria, most French wanted no business there to begin with, call it a loss of you wish, I see it as going back to the e.g. things ought to be. Still, the French governments since should not have let the colonials into the Metropole.
If Zemmour does what he says he will, all this rot is reversible, and I don’t care if he’s a Jew or a Martian, he clearly appears as has the French people’s interests at heart.
“If Zemmour does what he says he will, all this rot is reversible, and I don’t care if he’s a Jew or a Martian, he clearly appears as has the French people’s interests at heart.“
I wholeheartedly agree. When a prominent politician finally starts saying the right things, look at how the naysayers come out of the woodwork. Of course actions speak louder, but it seems that Zemmour has a long record of speaking and writing bravely at least. More than many of his naysayers. That counts for something these days, especially.
Regarding Algeria, one of the reasons De Gaulle wanted out was to prevent France from being overrun in the way it has been recently. De Gaulle was brilliant and far-seeing.
Here, for example
https://desk-russie.eu/2021/10/22/zemmour-ou-la-fascination.html
https://www.rtl.fr/actu/international/eric-zemmour-poutine-c-est-une-machine-a-remonter-le-temps-7792634905
Yes, he has a right to voice his opinion in that matter, of course. I am surely for freedom of speach and free opinions. His opinion does not make him bad, but I just do not agree with him here. Putin is not a friend of Europeans, of White, and of Russians too. If he is maybe better than Merkel and Macron, it does not mean that he´s good.
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I’ve travelled in many regions in France. I am shocked to see veiled women and other foreigners in even small communities.
I witnessed in a town of maybe 10,000 inhabitants, two small Arab boys spit towards similar aged French girls (my friend’s kids) on a playground with their veiled mother or grandmother on the bench uttering not a peep to discipline them. We moved on to another park nearby. When the boys followed, the girls’ aunt told them this is a girls’ park so ‘f*** off’ (‘casse-toi’) loud enough for mama Arab to hear. Nary a blink, she must be used to it, and the boys left, but not before spitting towards the spunky aunt.
As I explored the playground I saw ‘France for the French’ scratched on a bench.
Nearby, in the smallish city of St-Étienne, pop. 150k, full of Arabs and blacks at the bus depot. The city is also home to a couple of no-go zones (ZUS is the French acronym, a handy site lists all of these areas by city), which is insane for such a small city. Sig dot ville dot gouv dot fr slash atlas slash zus
Elsewhere in that same region, I saw a GI banner with a lambda logo similar to the Spartan shield emblem with the words ‘on est chez nous’ (this is our home).
What can you say. After the “frenchmen” Sarkozy and Hollande, why not Zemmour.
It has nothing to do with the greatness of medieval France, it is about blowing up Europe.
Now a logical and really simple question: “cui bono?”.
Now you can bet that the insufferable
Macron wil win.
@Razvan
Indeed. Alain de Benoist said as much a month or so back.
“Attendons donc encore six mois. On saura alors si Zemmour est parvenu à autre chose qu’à faire réélire Macron.”
Let’s wait for six months. We will have known by then whether Zemmour achieved anything other than getting Macron re-elected.
“…and pedagogists and the Doctor Strangeloves of gender theory and Islamo-leftism.”
After the nonsense of “Islamo-fascism”, the “civic-nationalist” Occidental Jewry presents the gullible goyim with another idiotic term, “Islamo-leftism”.
“So that the newest arrivals assimilate their culture, adapt their history, and are remade as French in France — not foreigners in an unknown land.”
Indeed, if a Berber Jew can sell himself as a hard French nationalist, then anything is possible.
Marine Le Pen purged her father from the party then rebranded the outfit to make it more acceptable to the Tribe only to find herself being outmaneuvered by that same Tribe.
Jean-Marie must be chuckling.
“Indeed, if a Berber Jew can sell himself as a hard French nationalist, then anything is possible”.
That was my initial concern as well. (although I am nowhere near qualified to discuss US politics, let alone elections in France. … )
Marine stabbing her own father in the back is one of the most disgraceful moments in European populism.
He offended “The Prophet“. Quick, let’s talk about the Jews! It’s like cancer criticizing AIDS.
France for the FRENCH! That excludes not only Muslims but also this gentleman who will be running “against” Macron. If we don’t talk about (((them))), we may have a few tactical wins but ultimately we will certainly fail.
Just so I can understand this a bit better, so Éric Zemmour (who is a jew and part of Globohomo) who really is no competition to Macron, is just spouting rhetoric to takes votes away from Marine Le Pen and ensure a Macron Victory next year ?
That’s certainly what it looks like. He can talk the talk all right, but then what?
At least Islamo-fascism has a semblance of truth, but Islamo-leftism is quite laughable.
Occidental Jewry
He´s not “occidental”- he´s Maghrebian from Algeria.
By “Occidental Jewry”, I meant the Jewry dwelling in the White West.
As for Zemmour being ‘Maghrebian’, interestingly, the term would still be appropriate.
Occidental literally translates as “Maghrebian” in Arabic. The root of this word is ‘gharb’ [غرب] which means ‘West/Occident’.
I know it. But under “occidental” you surely meant “Europeans” (Abendland).
In the ancient Türkic tradition (pre-Islamic, Tengrian) the West is associated with the white color (ak) – accidentally or not. The East is heaven-blue (kök) or heaven-gray (boz). The North is black (kara or qara), and the South is red (al or qizil).
Interesting.
Thanks for sharing this bit.
There’s a real-life photo of this guy that is literally a Happy Merchant meme.
Inspiring speech. Even if Zemmour’s campaign fails, such a bold opening statement sets the tone for the French election. All other candidates will now need to explain why the Great Replacement either is not happening or should be celebrated rather than opposed. Both of which are untenable positions.
This is similar to Trump’s announcement in 2016 when he took a hard-line position on immigration. It instantly shifts the Overton window to the Right and places potential opponents on the defensive regarding a previously unmentionable issue.
The coup de grace would be to make Laibach’s “Francia” the campaign theme song… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zYS6VE6b5c
Almost word for word of all the problems we are having with foreigners afflicting us in the U.S. At least in Los Angeles, we have freeways that elevate us up and through the worst neighborhoods, as well as having pockets of suburban living in the foothills, not exactly ‘gated communities’ but mostly ”No Outlet” — i.e., dead end — which discourages criminals. But even our little suburb out in the San Gabriel Valley is home to several ethnic enclaves — not our people. Not our language on the shops. Not our people passing by. Just not entirely our country anymore.
If his concern is sincere, why indeed did he not join forces with Le Pen? Seems to me the classic wedge effort to divide FrenchNat voters into two useless groups. He will unfortunately give Macron another victory.
How would he “join forces with LePen” for the presidency? It’s a one man position.
I liked his speech, but what France really needs is another Napoleon.
Well, Napoleon was an Italian, why can not an Algerian Jew be a new Napoleon. But I do not think it is possible with this man. Yes, he´s better than Macron – and nothing more. But better than a bad does not necessarily mean good. I see in him a gifted demagogue. And I would not exclude possibility of his connections with Comrade Putin.
Can you explain your view of Putin more thoroughly?
Putin is the same globalistic pig like all others, but he’s a gifted demagogue and good liar (KGB school of disinformation), and so he can play a role of a “Russian nationalist”, or a defender of the white people or keeper of traditions and so on. This is only false image, not more – for stupid foreigners. The real Russian nationalists in Russia are oppressed and some sit in prisons, and some were killed in jails like Petr Khomyakov or Marcienkiewicz. I would not explain more, because it is not the topic about Putin.
Anatoly Karlin is excellent on Russia and would find much to disagree with you…
Putin is bending towards Nationalism in several ways from the pro natalist policies aimed at the ethnic Russian birth rate which is more and more akin to the Hungarian model to the elevation and promotion of traditional family values on the culture from the kindergarten ages up teaching among other things the joy of large families to the reorientation of the immigration policy explicitly favouring Slavs from the former USSR. Also non European migration is Russian is skewed heavily towards men of the gasterbaiter model so there is no non European immigrant baby boom.
Also he has erected a formidable barrier to what we call Globohomo in Russia.
In sum I think has done a lot at least more than our so called Western leaders.
Read Russia’s Nationalist Turn by Anatoly Karlin also Anatoly would make a great guest on CC radio.
Under Putin Russians are now named as the state forming people in the new constitution, People go to far on Vlad one way or the other. Judge him on policy much of which is very good for the Russian ( ethnic Russian/ Russkie ) population. We all know he called Russian nationalists boors in the past in spite of which he has been quietly implementing many of the Nationalist policies. I see Russia post Putin going in the Orban direction.
Amren has a good article on this guy. https://www.amren.com/features/2021/11/a-pro-white-president-for-france/
It must be said, some White Nationalists’ “all, or nothing, now!” stance is flat bewildering. And being so Jew-centric that one fails to see Islam for what it is (fucking terrible) is immature at best.
Judaism sucks. Clearly. But Islam is Judaism on crystal meth, for goodness sake! What exactly is so hard about that?
Judaism is worse than Islam, by a lot. Zemmour is doing his job well looking at comments such as yours.
Are you one of those guys who thinks getting rid of the Jew will neatly solve all the other problems?
Get rid of the Jew, and magically…
Islam gives up conquest and violence
Blacks give up anti-white resentment and violence
Antifa settles down and starts playing nicely
The sleeping white man awakes en masse and takes his homelands back
… because no one but the Jew has agency.
“Get rid of the Jew”: the Swiss army knife of problem-solving.
And I nominate my horse for the president of France.
The last real West-Europenian “ultra-right” politician of a big scale died 2019, aged 82. It was Italian, named Stefano Delle Chiaie. There are “ultra-right” writers, journalists, scholars and bloggers, but there are not big social and political figures now, which could be compared to Signore Chiaie, as people both of word and of action.
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