Overview
- Sarah Knafo, Reconquête MEP and party’s lone national elected official, announced her Paris mayoral run on TF1 on January 7 and ruled out a 2027 presidential bid.
- Knafo outlined a platform featuring nearly €10 billion in savings, a pledge to halve property tax, and at least two referendums each year if elected.
- Her participatory site, Paris à cœur ouvert, quickly displayed racist submissions and was reported by a security researcher to expose contributor data; her team said it was a rapid hack fixed within minutes and has notified the CNIL.
- The campaign says many hateful posts came from a single IP address and has removed them, while left-wing officials denounced the content and signaled possible legal action.
- Recent polling places Knafo at about 7%—level with RN’s Thierry Mariani—making the 10% second‑round threshold a key target as figures like Pierre‑Yves Bournazel and Jean‑François Copé reject any tie‑up with Reconquête.