Sarah Knafo
Sarah Knafo is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament, elected in 2024 as part of the far-right Reconquête party. She serves as a close advisor to party founder Éric Zemmour and focuses on issues related to European sovereignty, immigration, and cultural identity.
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Sep 26, 2026
Far Right
The MEP and close Marine Le Pen ally appeared on BFMTV to argue that AI is both threat and opportunity and that the French people adopted it before their political class.
Knafo is the RN's most credible voice on tech and sovereignty, positioning the party as the defender of French technological independence against both Brussels regulation and American or Chinese dominance.
Sep 20, 2026
Lean Right
She was named by Sardoche as part of a hoped-for union of the rights alongside Lisnard.
LR is divided: some see her Reconquete energy as useful pressure on the mainstream right, others see it as a threat to LR's own presidential viability.
Sep 18, 2026
Lean Left
Her book 'Le Casse du siècle' attacking the welfare state is criticized by CheckNews for errors and caricatures.
Socialists see Knafo as the intellectual face of a hard-right project to dismantle the social model, and the fact-checking dismantles her credibility.
Sep 15, 2026
Far Left
Knafo, number two of Reconquête, demonstrated her popularity at the party's summer university and is set to be 'on the front line'.
LFI identifies Knafo as a rising hard-right operator whose normalization in media and politics requires direct ideological confrontation.
Sep 4, 2026
Lean Right
In a TV interview promoting her book 'Le Casse du siècle,' the Zemmour-linked MEP does not rule out joining a future government under Bardella if Le Pen wins.
Her openness to 'union des droites' echoes the strategy of attraction some LR figures advocate, but for others it is a trap that risks validating the RN's hard-right agenda.
Sep 2, 2026
Far Right
Increasingly visible as the face of Reconquête, while Éric Zemmour remains discreet, with Knafo calling him the 'natural candidate' for 2027.
For RN, Knafo's rise is a double-edged sword: she might split the national vote or prove that Zemmour has no real movement behind him.
Aug 8, 2026
Far Right
Her book, penned under the pseudonym Madeleine Menga, is selling out at booksellers before its official release this autumn.
RN sees the Reconquête MEP's publishing success as a sign that the national right is on the march and that her radical identity line is winning readers.
Jun 11, 2026
Far Right
Knafo appeared on the same BFMTV special, proposing a US-style public sex offender registry to protect children from predatory violence.
RN views Knafo's concrete, punitive proposal as a sharp contrast to the left's vague 'prevention' rhetoric, positioning the sovereignist right as the only camp serious about protecting children.