Châlons-en-Champagne (AFP) – Eric Zemmour indicated Thursday that he intended to announce his candidacy for the 2027 presidential election "before December", thus seeming to rule out a candidacy from his partner Sarah Knafo, the much-publicized vice-president of his far-right Reconquête party.

Published on: 09/03/2026 - 5:45 p.m.

Sarah Knafo "spends her time saying that she wants me to be a candidate and that I am the natural candidate for Reconquête", declared Mr. Zemmour with a touch of annoyance during a trip to the Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne) fair.

While the leader of the far-right National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, is currently given the lead in the first round by the polls, Mr. Zemmour has put the opinion studies into perspective.

“The situation is much more fluid than we believe and say,” he assured. “I saw it in previous elections and in the last presidential election.”

Mr. Zemmour actually knows what he is talking about: a candidate who came out of nowhere for the 2022 presidential election, he experienced a flash breakthrough in the polls in the fall of 2021, then stagnation followed by a fall in the final weeks of the campaign. He finally came fourth in the first round, with 7.07% of the votes.

Favorable for a right-wing primary for next year's presidential election, Mr. Zemmour nevertheless said on Thursday that he "no longer" believed in it.

As for a "union of the rights" for this election, "as long as the National Rally is this high (in the polls, Editor's note), there will be no union, since Ms. Le Pen does not want one," he said.

“In any case, I will do everything to obviously have a dynamic,” he added.

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