About the project

What Affinité politique is, who is behind it, how the content is produced and how it is funded.

What Affinité politique is

Affinité politique compares your answers to 46 statements about French politics with the documented positions of the candidates in the 2027 presidential election (first round on 18 April 2027, second round on 2 May 2027). It calculates how closely you match each of them and places you on a two-axis political compass. It is free, requires no registration and is available in French and English.

It belongs to a family of tools known as voting advice applications, which exist in several European countries. It is not an official website or an opinion poll, it does not forecast election results and it does not recommend who to vote for: it measures the distance between your views and the documented positions of the candidates, and that is where its role ends.

Around the test there is a body of public documentation: each candidate’s profile with their position on every question, topic pages, aggregated data from the people who have taken the test, and signed analyses explaining what can be read from that data.

Who is behind it

It is a personal, independent project developed from Spain by Fadrique Garcia Font, who is responsible for its development, for maintaining the database of positions and for the published texts. There is no publishing company, candidate, party, campaign, government, foundation or interest group behind it, and it has no connection with the French electoral authorities.

Why is a test for the French presidential election made in Spain? Since January 2026 the same author has run a test of the same kind for Spanish elections, Afinidad Política (afinidadpolitica.es), and since October 2026 others for Estonia and Slovakia; Affinité politique applies the same method to France. Being outside French politics does not in itself guarantee impartiality, and it can mean mistakes in the language or the context. That is why you can check everything: every position comes with its source, positions without an explicit document are marked as estimated, every change is recorded in the revision log on the methodology page, and anyone can write to us if they find a mistake.

Full identification details, including the address for legal purposes, are given in the legal notice. For any question or correction there is a contact page explaining what information we need in order to review a position.

How the content is produced

Candidate positions are assigned on the basis of each candidate’s documented stance. The main source is the candidate’s programme for 2027, as each candidate publishes it. Until then, we use their public statements, the votes of their party’s group in the National Assembly (as recorded on assemblee-nationale.fr) or in the European Parliament, and their party’s programme for the 2022 elections, which is marked as such. Each position comes with a justification and, where we have found the specific document, a link to its source. Positions without an explicit document stating them are marked as estimated: we would rather say so than claim a precision we do not have.

Candidate descriptions, topic introductions and the topic-by-topic readings are written from those positions and checked against the database before publication. They do not include outside data without a source to back it up.

The analyses draw on three materials: the matrix of positions, the aggregated response data and the calculation algorithm itself, plus official sources when they deal with laws or procedures. They carry a publication date, a review date, the person responsible and the list of sources used.

When someone points out an error and provides a source, we check it, correct it where appropriate and record the review date on the relevant page.

The project in numbers

First version: 2026.

How it is funded

Free for everyone: the test will never cost anything or require registration. At the moment it has no income of any kind (no advertising, no donations, no sale of reports): the costs are paid by the author. No candidate, party, government or company pays anything, and it does not accept money from candidates, parties, party foundations or campaigns.

If there is ever advertising or donations, we will explain it on the transparency page, which already sets out the rules they will follow: among them, that advertising will never be targeted using your answers or your result.

What data we store

No registration or account: your answers are stored with a random identifier, together with the approximate region and city of your connection, your browser and a keyed hash of your IP address. The hash, the browser and the city are deleted after 12 months.

That hash is used to prevent abuse and cannot be used to recover the original address, so the processing is pseudonymous rather than anonymous. The data published in the barometer is always aggregated, with a minimum of one hundred tests per cell. Full details are in the privacy policy.

Contact

Do you have questions or suggestions, or have you spotted a mistake?

Write to us at contact@affinitepolitique.fr: a real person replies, and we usually respond within about two weeks.