French billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin has used his first appearance before lawmakers to lay bare his "meta-political" campaign to bring free-market and conservative ideas into power to battle "socialism, wokism, Islamism and immigration", less than a year before France’s presidential election.
The self-made entrepreneur and tax exile was summoned to appear before the Senate as part of an inquiry into political finance that is investigating in part whether Stérin's organisations are abiding by regulations.
