For months, France’s presidential election, due next April, has been seen as a two-horse race between current president Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. But in the last few weeks, one man has risen in popularity. The far-right columnist and TV commentator, Eric Zemmour, is soaring in the opinion polls and that’s thrown the election race wide open. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.
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