“All of Sarah Knafo’s communication aims to conceal the radicality of her positions” | EUROtoday

Sarah Knafo, Reconquest candidate! within the municipal elections in Paris and head of the record within the 16^e district, would, in line with the most recent polls, go the ten% threshold for voting intentions within the first spherical, inserting it far forward of the opposite far-right candidate, Thierry Mariani (National Rally, RN).

In itself, no shock. Eric Zemmour and his occasion are succeeding higher in Paris than the RN, notably within the districts with probably the most advantaged populations. In the 2022 presidential election, he acquired 15.3% and 17.5% of the votes within the 8^e and 16^e arrondissements within the first spherical (and eight.2% of the vote in Paris, in comparison with 5.5% for Marine Le Pen). The first spherical of municipal elections ought to due to this fact confirm the existence of a far-right bourgeois vote within the capital. The postponements of votes within the second spherical and the negotiations between the right-wing and far-right lists in Paris as elsewhere also needs to present the rising porosity of the electorates. Porosity that the political-media storm surrounding the loss of life of id activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon, for which members of small anti-fascist far-left teams are indicted, has additional accelerated.

Still, Sarah Knafo has different benefits. First, earlier than the official entry into the marketing campaign, which marks the regulation of talking instances, the European deputy, the one elected official from the Reconquest! occasion, benefited from media publicity unrelated to her place within the political house. Invited to TF1’s “8 p.m.” to announce her candidacy for Paris City Hall – an honor that few can boast of – she was additionally awarded the Trombinoscope prize for political revelation. The function of the media in his candidacy is corresponding to the thrill round Eric Zemmour in the course of the 2022 presidential election. It relies on the right-wing of the press, largely linked to the focus of titles within the arms of some house owners, equivalent to Vincent Bolloré. But he’s additionally in search of new faces and “good clients”, authors of little phrases that “buzz”.

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