Strategic Director of Éric Zemmour’s campaign, Sarah Knafo is also the companion of the candidate for the 2022 presidential election. A 28-year-old young woman born in Pavillons-sous-Bois in Seine-Saint-Denis, she is the from the shadows who organizes and scrutinizes the smallest details of the party’s communication reconquest. First support of his companion, it is she who would have pushed him to stand for the election which will take place on April 10 and 24. “There would have been no campaign without Sarah Knafo“, recognized, moreover, Éric Zemmour on January 12 on BFMTV.
She gave him confidence
While the polemicist, former columnist on C news, long thought he would fail to win political supporters, Sarah Knafo never doubted his potential to win over the crowds. “She gave him confidence. Last July, he was convinced that he would stay at 4%” indicated a friend of the candidate to the Parisian. “Is she a Michelle Obama who absolutely wants to push her husband or is it more interested than that? (…) She happens to be very harsh with himafter a TV show for example.“
Describing herself readily as a “conductor“, Sarah Knafo confided to the journalists of the Parisian : “The bottom of the campaign, Éric Zemmour has been thinking for thirty years. Me, I brought together the people who work to set up the party, to create the digital strategy, I set to music.”
Admiring the phlegm and composure of the young woman, able to resist all kinds of criticism or rumors about her, a close friend of Marion Maréchal added: “She catalyzed a lot of networks and talents around him. It has a double role: activist networks and highly qualified professionals.“
She controls everything
Interviewed by Paris Match, Philippe de Villiers also evoked the complicity between the Enarque and the journalist. “Between her and him, it goes far beyond feelings (…) She leads the campaign, she masters everythingyou“, he confided.
Amazing anecdote recently revealed by the journalists of Marianne : Sarah Knafo made phone jokes and trapped Nicolas Sarkozy by calling him “in front of his friends by putting on the loudspeaker, pretending to be his mistress“. Faced with his jokes which he considered to be in bad taste, the husband of Carla Bruni “ended up threatening to put the security services on her heels“.