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Reconquête
Far right
Éric Zemmour
President of Reconquête, aged 68
Declared candidate on 17 September 2026
4.5/10
Overall score
15th out of 16
+Strengths
- Very high name recognition
- Motivated activist base
- His identity-focused themes weigh on the debate
−Weaknesses
- 3 to 5% in the polls, against 7% in 2022
- Convictions for incitement to hatred
- Very high rejection, almost no reserve of votes
In the polls
4.1% on average over the last 30 days, +0.4 pt in three months.
59 polls since 26 March 2025. All polls
Proposals
- Pensions
- Legal retirement age of 64 (2022 programme).
- Taxes and spending
- Cut production taxes and reject any wealth tax (2022 programme).
- Immigration
- “Zero immigration” and “remigration”: an end to birthright citizenship and family reunification, very limited asylum, expulsion of foreign offenders and jobless foreigners.
- Europe and defence
- Leave NATO's integrated command (2022 programme).
- Energy and climate
- Relaunch nuclear power and stop wind power (2022 programme).
- Institutions and security
- Criminal majority at 16 and mandatory minimum sentences.
Sources: France-Vote, Éric Zemmour 2027 profile (the 2022 programme remains Reconquête's basis).
Chances in our scenarios
| Scenario | Reaches the run-off | Wins the election |
|---|---|---|
| The current landscape | less than 1% | less than 1% |
| The centrist bloc behind Philippe | less than 1% | less than 1% |
| Right and centre united | less than 1% | less than 1% |
| The left united behind Glucksmann | less than 1% | less than 1% |
| Jordan Bardella instead of Marine Le Pen | less than 1% | less than 1% |
Profile
What the scores measure
- Experience
- Offices held, government roles, knowledge of the State
- Name recognition
- How well known they are to the public
- Communication
- Media skills, debating, social media presence
- Polls
- First-round voting intentions in October 2026, and their trend
- Reach
- Ability to win votes beyond their own camp in the run-off
- Party machine
- Party strength: activists, elected officials, funding