Paris, France:
The extreme right of Europe is increasing at an unprecedented pace. With Italy in the bag and Germany apparently, while the country is voting this Sunday, France should not be left behind. Although Marine Le Pen is perhaps still the most dominant figure of the French extreme right, another young woman wins quickly.
Sarah Knafo, a prominent leader of the extreme right-wing nationalist party victory of France, became known after she and her party chef Eric Zemmour received invitations for the Trump inaugation in January.
Known for her admiration of the Donald Trump election campaign and his revival in the US and its strong support for Elon Musk’s prospects towards Europe, Mrs. KNAFO, 31, is fast as the most popular leaders in the extreme right-wing factions of France.
Not left behind, Marine le Pen, 56, also sent three members of her party – National Rally (RN) – for the Trump -inaugation. However, she chose not to be personally present. The last time she would meet Donald Trump, in 2017, she was famous by the president when she visited him in the Trump tower in New York.
But during the Trump -this year, Sarah Knafo was not only seen in the American Capitol for his oedceremony, but also seen that evening an invitation for the capital and the Liberty Ball in Washington DC. She went to both with the best leader of her party Eric Zemmour.
Their party victory has very strong anti-Islam views, including a completely national ban on the name Mohammad, together with various strict laws that are proposed to act “effectively” with the spread of Islam in France.
While Sarah Knafo is now standing up from the shadow of 66-year-old Zemmour, she seems to combine the approach of Donald Trump and Elon Musk to address voters in France. While extreme right-wing leader Le Pen, who is promoted by her party as the next president of France in 2027, is wary of her proximity of Trump and Musk, because they are of a large number in Europe, Sarah Knafo has openly her closeness Embraced to the US to the US leaders if she wants to be the driving force of her party.
In contrast to Le Pen, who does not want to risk the hard -fought profit she has achieved in France, KNAFO’s party that has received 7 percent of the voice share in the previous French presidential elections has a completely different approach.
In an interview with Reuters news agency, Sarah Knafo said: “Reconquest is the only party in France that defends this mix: pro-tech, pro-business, but also the defense of national identity.” Known for her pro-capitalist mentality, she believes that pro-business and pro-tech is the only way to save a socialist country like France from not left behind.
Just like Trump, KNAFO’s party has also proposed massive deportations of migrants to “retain the French identity”. She has decided to coordinate her party with the new political order in the Atlantic Ocean. Although she acknowledges that Trump’s techno-conservatism is a hard-sell in France, she is more likely to be a welfare state, she is convinced that Trump would support her about Le Pen if the need occurs.
While the party of Le Pen, known for its racist and anti-Semetic elements, has worked on the strategy to “decide” the party to gain ground, Mrs. Knaf believes that “the aspect of deponization is the opposite of what Trump argues “. “He (Trump) doesn’t have much respect for it,” she added.
Le Pen also has plans to deport migrants if her party won the presidential election in France. She said that her party was “the best placed in France to talk to the Donald Trump administration” with regard to the issue. She gave the example of how the US put down Colombia under pressure to receive deported migrants – an approach she wants to emulate in France if she could become president in 2027.
Sarah Knafo studied at the French prestigious Ena Administrative College – the same college where President Emmanuel Macron graduated. She is skilled on technology and fintech and is known as a crypto-aficionado.
KNAFO’s proximity to Donald Trump and Elon Musk grew after her speech in Brussels was noticed by Jacob Helberg, a tech director born in Paris who nominated Trump as the best economist of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He recently invited her to the US for the Miami Memorial of Hamas’ Terror attack of October 7 at Israel. There she had a meeting with Trump just before the US started voting last year.
Her second meeting with President Trump was after his inauguration. In the US she also met crypto billionaire Michael Saylor. She said the two “the upcoming French elections” discussed.
Mrs. Knafo also remembered how Trump in 2022 reached her party Chief Eric Zemmour in 2022 about his position on Islam and migration. “Don’t give up,” Knafo remembered that Trump Zemmour told in a generally reported call from 2022. “Now you are visible, all media will be against you. They will say that you are too brutal, too radical. Do not listen to them Don’t talk to the people directly. “
(Inputs from Reuters)