by Allan Wall, US Incorporated, ©2022
(Feb. 11, 2022) — The 2022 French presidential election is only two months away, with a whopping 39 (!) candidates in the running.
How do French voters sort through 39 candidates?
It’s a two-round election, scheduled April 10th for all 39 participants and then April 24th for the top two vote-getters.
Four of those 39 candidates are polling in double digits: incumbent President Macron, Valerie Pecresse (Les Républicains), Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National), and Eric Zemmour of Reconquête! (Reconquest Party), which he founded.
Zemmour is a French patriot and an ethnic Jew whose parents immigrated from North Africa. He is an immigration restrictionist campaigning to save France.
In a recent interview on French television, Zemmour made his opinions very clear.
The blow-dried interviewer asked how refugees could get into a Zemmour-led France and Zemmour said they’d have to do it from their own country.
(That could apply to U.S. policy. Somebody in Honduras could simply stay in his country and apply for refugee status at the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa. But they know that under Biden, if they can just make it to U.S. territory, it’s highly unlikely they’ll be deported. They’re not wrong.)
As for Zemmour, he wants France to only take in about 300 refugees annually.
What type of refugee would Zemmour accept?
Zemmour: “Originally, the right of asylum is for freedom fighters like Victor Hugo, Solzhenitsyn, etc.”
Interviewer: “That’s not a lot.”
Zemmour: “Exactly, we will stop there.”
The candidate referred to Japan, a rich country which takes in few refugees, to which the host responded, “You can’t compare France to Japan.”
Why not?
The interviewer pulled out two extreme examples to put Zemmour on the spot.
Would a Zemmour-led France accept persecuted women fleeing the Taliban?
“Afghan women are not freedom fighters. I do not accept them,” Zemmour replied.
This may sound cruel and shocking. That’s because we’re used to Western leaders talking as if they can solve the world’s problems, rather than putting their own people first.
That’s not Zemmour’s perspective.
“I am not the Santa Claus of humankind,” proclaimed Zemmour. (In French it was Père Noël, the French Santa Claus.)
The candidate revealed his appreciation for, and understanding of, true diversity – not the globalist social engineering so prevalent today: “Individuals belong to peoples, they have histories, cultures, I am neither here to give moral lessons to 7 billion men, nor to welcome all the misery and all the misfortunes of the world – I close, it’s over.”
In the next tough scenario proposed by the interviewer, Zemmour was asked if he would allow an African illegal alien who saved a child from a fire to stay in France.
This actually happened and the African was legalized, so the interviewer asked Zemmour if he would do the same.
Zemmour didn’t skip a beat: “No.”
Interviewer: “So this man saves a child…”
Zemmour: “Very good.”
I nterviewer: “And you send him back to Bamako [capital of Mali] by plane? ”
Zemmour: “Absolutely. I have a duty of humanity to the French people, I have no duty of humanity towards the whole world.”
That’s an important point. The leader of a country owes duty to his own people.
“I am here to save the French people and France, I’m not here to save the world.”
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