In a long interview given to Le Figaro on Friday, Sarah Knafo announced her candidacy for the European elections.
In 2022, during Éric Zemmour's presidential campaign, she made the "choice of discretion". In 2024, Sarah Knafo comes out of the shadows and announces that she is a candidate for the European elections next June. “I am arriving to support the team. I am very happy to engage in the battle, as third on the list led by Marion Maréchal”, informs Le Figaro the one who shares her life with Éric Zemmour. And to assure: “Eric and Marion know that they can count on me.”
Today in the campaign, Sarah Knafo explains that she wants to defend “a free, modern, prosperous, cultured and self-confident Europe”. For the 30-year-old, the issue of the election is “to free France from European madness and to free Europe from Islamization”. And to assure: “My first commitment was sovereignist.” However, his arrival on the Reconquest list, moreover in third position, does not seem to enchant everyone. On X, Éric Zemmour's spokesperson in Mayenne, Pierre Marionnet, strongly denounced the fact that the general public does not know her. “Who are you Sarah Knafo besides the chief’s wife?” he asked, expressing his “big, big disappointment”.
Aged 31, this magistrate at the Court of Auditors has been on leave since September 2021 due to her political commitment. Le Figaro which asked her about her career, she explained that she grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis, a department that she was able to see “radically change”. His family ? “Arriving in France in the 1960s” is “very far from politics,” she explains. As for her education, after obtaining her baccalaureate in 2011 in the private Jewish high school under Alliance contract, it was at Sciences-Po then at the ENA that she continued her education. As for her opinion on the National Rally, “there is a party which is very high in the polls, another which is very high in courage”, she responds to Le Figaro which asks her about the difference between the two camps , before accusing Jordan Bardella of a “conjurer”.
