ministers and prominent judges, none of them seriously entertained the
   possibility of winning the post of president or prime minister in an
   election.

   But that’s not been the case with Jewish politicians whose families
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   France, where a TV pundit named Eric Zemmour, who also comes from a
   Jewish family, is being widely tipped as the far-right’s candidate in
   the French presidential election in April 2022. True, Kreisky was a
   proud socialist, whereas Zemmour, a household name in France for his
   strident anti-immigrant stance, is an outspoken representative of the
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   Zemmour has not yet announced his intention to run, but the talk of his
   candidacy has been bolstered by a recent poll showed him coming second
   in the election. Marine Le Pen, the other far-right candidate, who was
   roundly defeated by Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the 2017
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   roundly defeated by Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the 2017
   election, is eyeing Zemmour nervously. Certainly, Zemmour’s message
   extolling traditional French and Christian values increasingly resonate
   in a country sharply divided on immigration, on the government’s