🇫🇷 Ahead of the French Presidential elections next year Emmanuel Macron faces an unlikely challenger: @ZemmourEric.

The controversial right-wing journalist is taking France by storm

@StevenEdginton investigates why 👇🧵
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🇫🇷Zemmour’s marmite campaign has ruptured French politics and may have ended Marine Le Pen’s hopes of becoming President altogether.

Could he actually win the French Presidency?
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🗣️“Yes, I think Éric Zemmour can win.”

Author of the novel “President Zemmour” and editor of Valeurs actuelles magazine, Geoffroy Lejeune, believes Zemmour has a strong chance of beating Macron in the upcoming election

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“He's not a good person...He’s a racist”

🇫🇷 These Parisians are no fans of Zemmour

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🗣️“I don’t think he’s racist”

On the other side of the debate, this Zemmour fan believes he will protect French culture
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"I find him courageous because he doesn’t speak the language of political correctness"

🇫🇷Some supporters believe Zemmour is being honest about the problems facing France
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🍾‘The French love grandeur!’

@Telegraph journalist @moutet explains Eric Zemmour in the terms of his two heroes, Charles de Gaulle and Napoleon Bonaparte

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❌ “It would be the beginning of the end of the EU”

Though @MacaesBruno doesn’t believe Zemmour can win, he thinks his victory would create a sombre mood in Brussels
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"As the French election heats up Éric Zemmour could do more than rock France, he could even take down the EU" says @StevenEdginton

Watch the full film here 👇
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