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The 2027 presidential candidates: what each one proposes

Deciding who to vote for starts with knowing what each candidate proposes beyond the headlines. Here are the 11 candidates in the test: the party they belong to or the parties that back them, and what they stand for.

Each profile sets out the candidate's position question by question, with the reasoning and, where there is one, a link to the source. It is based on the candidate's programme and public statements, the votes of their party's group in the National Assembly and the European Parliament and, until the 2027 programme is published, their party's 2022 programme. It is the same database our political match test uses; see the full methodology to find out how it is put together.

All candidates’ positions in one table

Gabriel Attal

Attal

Centrism, liberalism, pro-Europeanism · Nationwide

Secretary-general of Renaissance since December 2024 and leader of the Ensemble pour la République group in the National Assembly, Gabriel Attal has b...

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Nicolas Dupont-Aignan

Dupont-Aignan

Gaullism, sovereigntism · Nationwide

Mayor of Yerres (Essonne) from 1995 to 2017 and again since the 2026 municipal elections, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan leads Debout la France, a party that c...

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Raphaël Glucksmann

Glucksmann

Social democracy, environmentalism, European federalism · Nationwide

Raphaël Glucksmann co-founded Place Publique in 2018 and is its co-president. He has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, sitting with...

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Marine Le Pen

Le Pen

Nationalism, sovereigntism · Nationwide

A member of the National Assembly for Pas-de-Calais since 2017, Marine Le Pen chairs the Rassemblement National group. She led the Front National, ren...

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David Lisnard

Lisnard

Economic liberalism, liberal conservatism, decentralisation · Nationwide

Mayor of Cannes since 2014 and president of the Association of Mayors of France since 2021, David Lisnard founded and leads the Nouvelle Énergie movem...

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Mélenchon

Eco-socialism, democratic socialism, non-alignment · Nationwide

Jean-Luc Mélenchon founded La France Insoumise (LFI) in 2016. He has been a senator for Essonne, junior minister for vocational education (2000-2002),...

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Édouard Philippe

Philippe

Centre-right, economic liberalism, pro-Europeanism · Nationwide

Mayor of Le Havre and president of the Le Havre Seine Métropole urban authority, Édouard Philippe founded the Horizons party in 2021 and announced tha...

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Bruno Retailleau

Retailleau

Conservatism, Gaullism, economic liberalism · Nationwide

Leader of Les Républicains since May 2025 and senator for Vendée, Bruno Retailleau was Minister of the Interior from 2024 to 2025 in the Barnier, Bayr...

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Fabien Roussel

Roussel

Communism, socialism · Nationwide

Fabien Roussel has been national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) since 2018 and was re-elected in July 2026. He has been mayor of Saint-...

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Marine Tondelier

Tondelier

Political ecology, social left, European federalism · Nationwide

Marine Tondelier has led Les Écologistes (formerly EELV) as national secretary since 2022 and was re-elected in 2025. She has been a regional councill...

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Éric Zemmour

Zemmour

Nationalism, conservatism · Nationwide

Founder and leader of Reconquête, Éric Zemmour was a political journalist at Le Figaro, an essayist and a radio and television commentator. He holds n...

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From left to right

The candidates ordered by their place on the economic axis of the political compass, calculated from their positions on the test questions (from −100, left, to +100, right). See the full map with the social axis.

  1. Mélenchon -87
  2. Roussel -80
  3. Tondelier -67
  4. Glucksmann -53
  5. Le Pen -20
  6. Dupont-Aignan -17
  7. Zemmour +43
  8. Retailleau +60
  9. Attal +63
  10. Lisnard +70
  11. Philippe +77

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