Gabriel Attal differs most from the other ten candidates on “Economy, taxes and debt”, with an average gap of 1.75 points: he strongly agrees with cutting public spending first rather than raising taxes and with reducing the number of public servants, strongly disagrees with bringing back a wealth tax and disagrees with a minimum tax on fortunes worth more than 100 million euros. Health follows (1.7 points): like David Lisnard, he strongly disagrees with the State being able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them, and he disagrees with greatly increasing funding for public hospitals if it costs the State more.
The third theme is “Foreign affairs and defence” (1.56 points). He strongly agrees with continuing military aid to Ukraine, with increasing military spending and with offering to extend the French nuclear deterrent to European partners, the last of which only Raphaël Glucksmann also supports to the same degree; he agrees with compulsory national service for all young people and disagrees with leaving NATO’s integrated military command. Just behind comes “Society, secularism and regions” (1.53 points), where he strongly agrees with keeping the 2026 law allowing assisted dying. Together with Édouard Philippe, whose position is estimated, he is the only one who disagrees with creating a citizens’ initiative referendum (RIC).
He is closest to the rest on “Security and justice” (0.6 points), where he agrees that police officers and gendarmes should be presumed to have acted in self-defence and disagrees with legalising cannabis, followed by immigration (0.72 points) and education (0.93 points).
Of his 46 positions, 16 are in favour, 5 intermediate and 25 against; 13 are at the extremes (1 or 5) and 6, for lack of a source, are estimated. His highest match is with Édouard Philippe (86%), his lowest with Jean-Luc Mélenchon (41%).
