* Contribute to Brainstorm How Éric Zemmour is shaking up the French presidential election Updated / Friday, 15 Oct 2021 16:09 -- -- Since 1988, a candidate of the extreme right has always received at least 10% of the vote in French presidential elections. Until now, that candidate has always been a Le Pen. While the polls for next year's -- candidate has always been a Le Pen. While the polls for next year's presidential election place Marine Le Pen, candidate of the Rassemblement National and (estranged) daughter of the titan of the French far right, Jean-Marie Le Pen, in the high teens, a new candidate -- -- Éric Zemmour, a journalist turned polemicist, has not yet declared his candidacy, but is already shaking up what had been seen as one of the most predictable elections in decades. Born into a working-class Jewish family of Algerian origin in the suburbs of Paris, Zemmour studied at the elite institution Sciences-Po before entering journalism. -- -- His relentless pessimism has served him well on TV, but it remains to be seen if it can rally enough voters in the upcoming election His relative success with audiences has meant that news operators have -- -- into an inescapable cycle of decline. Although his relentless pessimism has served him well as a television commentator, it remains to be seen if it can rally enough voters in the upcoming election. We need your consent to load this YouTube contentWe use YouTube to -- -- From Europe1, Charlotte d'Ornellas and Bruno Jeudy discuss the potential for a Macron vs Zemmour duel in next year's French presidential election While Emmanuel Macron's campaign team were initially enthusiastic about -- -- Zemmour is not yet an officially declared candidate and his chances of emerging as the victor in the presidential elections in May 2022 remain slim. He would not be the first candidate to rise in the polls prior to -- slim. He would not be the first candidate to rise in the polls prior to the official campaign, only to crash and burn on election day. We need your consent to load this YouTube contentWe use YouTube to -- -- From France24, the panel look at the French government's latest announcements on visa restrictions for North Africans in the context of next year's election However, his presence has already shifted the grounds of political -- -- Tunisians and Algerians is seen by many as an attempt to forestall Zemmour’s rise in the polls. Even if Zemmour remains locked out of the corridors of power after the next elections, he will have triumphed if his opponents chose not to fight back against his extreme agenda but try to co-opt it.