Presidential 2022: are the French media making the candidate Éric Zemmour?

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The French far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour, during a conference for the promotion of his new book "France has not said its last word", September 17, 2021, in Toulon.

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By: Clémentine Pawlotsky

1 min

Since the start of the school year, the French polemicist Éric Zemmour has taken center stage in the media and has shaken up the political landscape of the pre-campaign for the April 2022 presidential election in France.

He has no party or political experience.

He hasn't even officially declared himself a candidate yet.

But most editorial offices and pollsters already treat it as such.

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For the first time, last week, an opinion poll gives him qualified in the second round of the presidential election with 17 to 18% of the votes, behind President Emmanuel Macron.

How much credit can we give to these polls, which the media are the sounding board for?

Do they not help to shape the image of a “presidential” Zemmour?

How does the polemicist and his supporters take advantage of it?

Decryption with:

- Philippe Corcuff

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lecturer in political science at Sciences Po Lyon, author of

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 Textual edition. 

- Arnaud Mercier

, professor of political communication at the University of Paris 2 Assas.

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