Éric Zemmour

Responsable de partiPresident of Reconquête

Reconquête · France

Profil rédigé en anglais

Éric Zemmour is a French essayist, journalist and politician, born 31 August 1958 in Montreuil to a family of Algerian Jews who settled in metropolitan France in the early 1950s. After a long career as a political journalist and television polemicist (Le Figaro, i>Télé, Paris Première, CNews), he founded the party Reconquête in December 2021 and ran in the 2022 French presidential election, finishing fourth in the first round with 7.07% and being eliminated. He has never held elected or executive office and has several final criminal convictions for hate-speech offences.