Far-right TV pundit Éric Zemmour to run for French presidency
by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#5SGT3)
It is time to save' France, controversial figure says as he reads video speech posted on social media
Eric Zemmour, a controversial French far-right TV pundit who has convictions for inciting racial hatred, has declared he will run for president next spring, claiming he wants to save" traditional France from disappearing".
In a 10-minute video posted on social media, Zemmour sat at a desk reading a speech in front of an old-fashioned microphone, designed to look like Charles de Gaulle's famous June 1940 broadcast to Nazi-occupied France - provoking anger from the traditional Gaullist right.
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