After dominating the airwaves in the early stages of the campaign, France’s extreme-right candidate Éric Zemmour saw his presidential run falter in the home stretch. His lowly 7.1 percent tally in Sunday's first round shut him out of the April 24 run-off. But his outsized influence on the campaign could still weigh on the final result.
All that fuss for just 7.1 percent. Veteran French journalist Laure Adler no doubt spoke for many colleagues when she voiced a “mea culpa” on Monday over the media’s treatment of Éric Zemmour’s campaign.
