Eric Zemmour hopes to outflank hard-right Marine Le Pen by making her look too soft
is still President Emmanuel Macron. But Mr Zemmour is now neck-and-neck with the hard-right Marine Le Pen for a place in the second round . This has propelled the former TV pundit from an attention-seeking rabble rouser to the centre of political attention.A daily newsletter with the best of our journalismWith no filter and no party, Mr Zemmour trades on two pet themes. He has developed these in various books over the past 15 years, most recently in “France Hasn’t Said its Final Word”.
Born in the Paris region, Mr Zemmour is himself of Jewish-Algerian descent. Yet, in an attempt to tap into a deep hard-right nationalist strain, he also defends Vichy France for “protecting” French Jews, on the bizarre grounds that it deported foreign Jews first. Adept at such distortions of history, Mr Zemmour wraps his tirades in a narrative of nostalgia, decline and loss. He brings in ample references to Joan of Arc, Louis XlV, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle.
Mr Zemmour is partly set on outflanking Ms Le Pen, by making her look too soft. He says things that the current leader of the National Rally , in her bid to shed the party’s anti-Semitic and racist baggage. Mr Zemmour declares that Islam is “incompatible” with France, and that French Muslims should be given “French” first names. To broaden his appeal beyond the far right, he also targets a different voting base.
No poll has yet suggested that Mr Zemmour could win the presidency. But Mr Zemmour watched carefully how in 2017 Mr Macron used the Fifth Republic constitution to bypass France’ s established political parties and take the highest office. Mr Macron founded his own party, En Marche!, to support his presidential campaign and win a majority in the National Assembly. Mr Zemmour is also a close student of victorious populists and nationalist strongmen, from Donald Trump to Victor Orban.
Correction : A previous version of this article said Mr Zemmour posed with a machine gun. It was in fact a rifle.
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