{
  "id": 8220186,
  "title": "Another far-right politician joins France presidential race",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/another-far-right-politician-joins-france-presidential-race",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-18T09:53:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Local France",
    "slug": "the-local-france-thelocal",
    "url": "https://www.thelocal.fr/20260918/another-far-right-politician-joins-france-presidential-race"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "French far-right politician Eric Zemmour has announced his candidacy for the presidential election. He vows to crack down on immigration and expel unemployed foreigners, even if they are legal residents. According to Free Malaysia Today, Zemmour also supports sending back foreign offenders, including those not in prison, and those who have been unemployed for a long time and live solely on welfare benefits.\n\nZemmour, head of the Reconquest party, was a distant fourth in the 2022 presidential election. His candidacy joins a crowded field, including Marine Le Pen of the National Rally party, who was runner-up to President Emmanuel Macron in the last two elections. Le Pen's chances of winning have been boosted by a court reducing her ban on holding public office for a graft conviction.\n\nThere is no direct connection between Zemmour's announcement and a separate incident in which a police officer was arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. According to Le Monde English and The Local France, the officer was detained in August on suspicion of making weapons and planning violent attacks, and was placed in detention pending trial in Paris.",
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    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Le Monde English",
        "title": "France arrests far-right policeman suspected of planning terror attack",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/france-arrests-far-right-policeman-suspected-of-planning-terror-attack",
        "published": "2026-09-18T06:35:53.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Local France",
        "title": "France arrests police officer ‘suspected of far-right terror plot’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/france-arrests-police-officer-suspected-of-far-right-terror-plot",
        "published": "2026-09-18T07:18:34.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Another far-right politician joins France’s presidential race",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/another-far-right-politician-joins-frances-presidential-race",
        "published": "2026-09-18T08:16:32.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}