The big issues
What do the candidates think on each issue?
Politics is not a single block: you can agree with a candidate on taxes and disagree with them on healthcare or on Europe. That is why we have organised the candidates’ positions into 12 issues, question by question and with the source of each position.
Choose an issue to see at a glance where each candidate stands, or take the test and find out who you agree with on each one.
💰 Economy, taxes and debt
The Zucman tax on the largest fortunes, bringing back the wealth tax, cutting spending or raising taxes to reduce the deficit, and the number of public servants.
4 questions👵 Pensions
The legal retirement age (back to 62 or up to 65), a funded pillar alongside pay-as-you-go pensions and raising pensions in line with inflation.
4 questions🛒 Work and cost of living
A minimum wage of 1,600 euros after deductions, keeping the 35-hour week, VAT on energy and motor fuel, how long unemployment benefits last and rent controls.
5 questions🏥 Health
Requiring doctors to set up practice in areas that lack them, and funding for public hospitals.
2 questions🌍 Immigration
A referendum on immigration, birthright citizenship, legal status for undocumented workers, priority for French citizens in social housing and jobs, State medical aid (AME) and family reunification.
6 questions⚖️ Security and justice
A presumption of self-defence for police officers and gendarmes, minimum sentences for repeat offenders, legalising cannabis, and rubber-bullet launchers and grenades at demonstrations.
4 questions🎓 Education and youth
Banning social media for under-15s, school uniform in primary and lower secondary school, and the future of Parcoursup.
3 questions🌱 Energy, climate and farming
New nuclear reactors, wind power, low-emission zones (ZFE) in large cities, glyphosate and neonicotinoids.
4 questions🇪🇺 Europe
Whether French law should take precedence over European law, EU decisions by majority without a national veto, and leaving the European Union.
3 questions🛡️ Foreign affairs and defence
Military aid to Ukraine, NATO’s integrated command, extending the nuclear deterrent to European partners, compulsory national service and military spending.
5 questions🏛️ Institutions and democracy
Proportional representation in parliamentary elections, a citizens’ initiative referendum (RIC) and moving to a Sixth Republic.
3 questions🤝 Society, secularism and regions
The 2026 assisted dying law, letting Corsica make its own rules in some areas, and girls under 18 wearing the headscarf in public spaces.
3 questionsPut your own views to the test
You have just seen where each candidate stands on this issue. The test places you on every topic and works out how well you match each candidate.
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