The presidential campaign being over, some tongues are loosened. In the Reconquest movement, a young party officially launched in December 2022 which finished with 7% in the first round, the enmities between certain members, among the most influential, are thus revealed. Sarah Knafo, the companion of former journalist Eric Zemmour, is at the heart of tensions.
In The Expresswe learn that the press secretary of the 2022 presidential candidate, Isabelle Müllerdecided to leave the adventure, she who often demonstrated “his weariness during the campaign“. Woman of influence according to the weekly, she had to face another: Sarah Knafo. The 29-year-old enarque in a relationship with Eric Zemmour and she would not leave much room around their duo, if the we believe the indiscretions of the magazine: “In question, his difficulty in imposing his choices in the face of the omnipresent Sarah Knafo, companion and campaign manager of the candidate. The two women waged a war of influence for several weeks, a big argument having broken out in the middle of the campaign against a background of strategic disagreements.“
A friend of Isabelle Muller confided behind the scenes: “Sarah makes big smiles in front but does not hesitate to get out of the way with Eric from behind.“A description that reinforces the idea of the dangerous weight represented by Sarah Knafo in the close guard of the ex-controversialist. Campaign director described as a fiery young woman who is fearless, she has a notebook of addresses well filled and is not afraid to write his own caption.Pierre Meurin, ex-lieutenant and close to Marion Maréchal who has distanced himself since, declared in The Express : “Eric Zemmour absolutely does not manage his team, he delegates everything to Sarah Knafo whom he expects to offer him the Elysée. He never attended executive committee meetings when I was on it..”
Moreover, this same Pierre Meurin regretted that Antoine Diers, former spokesperson for Reconquête, deputy director of strategy and best political element of the “zemmourienne” team according to him, was only a simple media host. The latter has now also left. And it was Sarah Knafo who had transmitted the news through a message on a Telegram loop: “For info Antoine Diers told me to leave the adventure. So, I say goodbye to you instead!“Finally, after the departure of Jean Messiha, franceinfo has just revealed that Philippe de Villiers, the founder of the Mouvement pour la France, does not appear in the new organization chart unveiled on 30 April. He would have “taken from the field“according to a source. And it was he who said of the Knafo-Zemmour couple, in an investigation by The Express from October 2021: “They fascinate each other. It will end badly.“