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Health: what each candidate thinks

By Fadrique Garcia Font · Reviewed on 19/10/2026

Requiring doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them, and funding for public hospitals.

2 questions, 22 candidate positions and 1 complete disagreement (how they are assigned).

What each candidate proposes on this issue

A summary of their positions on the questions in this issue, based on their programmes, statements and the votes of their party’s group. Details and sources, question by question, below.

Attal

Disagrees: “The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them”; “Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more”

Dupont-Aignan

Agrees: “Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more”

Disagrees: “The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them”

Glucksmann

Agrees: “Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more”

In between: “The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them”

Le Pen

Agrees: “Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more”

Disagrees: “The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them”

Lisnard

Disagrees: “The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them”; “Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more”

Mélenchon

Agrees: “The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them”; “Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more”

Philippe

Disagrees: “Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more”

In between: “The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them”

Retailleau

Agrees: “The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them”

Disagrees: “Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more”

Roussel

Agrees: “The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them”; “Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more”

Tondelier

Agrees: “The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them”; “Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more”

Zemmour

Agrees: “Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more”

Disagrees: “The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them”

The State should be able to require doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them.

Doctors in private practice are free to choose where to work. A cross-party bill to regulate where they set up was passed at first reading in the National Assembly in May 2025.

Of the 11 candidates with a position on this question: 4 in favour, 2 in between and 5 against.

Funding for public hospitals should be greatly increased, even if it costs the State more.

Public hospitals are short of staff and beds in many areas. Their budget depends on the health insurance spending target voted each year.

Of the 11 candidates with a position on this question: 7 in favour, 0 in between and 4 against.

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