Far left
Candidate
Nathalie Arthaud56 years old
Workers' struggle
Spokesperson for the Trotskyist Lutte Ouvrière movement, Nathalie Arthaud is a candidate for the fourth time in the presidential election. In 2012, 2017 and 2022, she received less than 1% of the vote each time.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
François Asselineau69 years old
Republican Popular Union
At the head of the Republican Popular Union, François Asselineau is a candidate again after having received less than 1% of the vote in 2017. Sovereignist, he fails to run in 2012 and 2022 due to lack of sufficient sponsorship. He was sent to prison, notably for 'sexual harassment', 'sexual assault' and 'attempted sexual assault' on two colleagues.
Center
Candidate
Gabriel Attal37 years old
Renaissance
Former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron from January to September 2024, Gabriel Attal is competing for the first time in the presidential election. Minister several times since 2017, he saw his rise stopped short with the dissolution of June 2024. President of the Ensemble pour la République group in the Assembly, he is also patron of Renaissance, the presidential party, since December of the same year.
Left
Candidate
Delphine Batho53 years old
Generation ecology
Minister of Ecology under François Hollande, Delphine Batho is running in the 2021 environmentalist primary, won by Yannick Jadot. After having promoted the idea of degrowth, the member for Deux-Sèvres now intends to defend “an ecology of government” during this presidential election.
Center
Candidate
Olivier Becht50 years
Center
Member of Parliament in Haut-Rhin since 2017 and related to the Renaissance group, Olivier Becht is a candidate for the presidential election for the first time. Former Minister of Foreign Trade under Elisabeth Borne, he was part of the Socialist Party and now wants to embody “the extreme center”.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Augustin Billetdoux39 years old
Miscellaneous
Author of novels and plays, former advisor to an environmentalist MP, Augustin Billetdoux declared himself in September 2025 in a video published on social networks. An NGO executive, he defends “public service capitalism” in which private companies would tackle “social and environmental emergencies” on their own scale. He is running a “resolutely left-wing” candidacy, which is “not linked to any party”.
Left
Candidate
Karim Bouamrane53 years old
Socialist Party
Mayor of Saint-Ouen since 2020, Karim Bouamrane began his political career with the Communists, before joining the PS in 2014. Vice-president of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis, he announced his candidacy for the presidential election in June 2026.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Juan Branco37 years old
The Hives
A presidential candidate since December 2025, Juan Branco launched the race for the Elysée via his movement called ″Les Ruches″. The lawyer, who was an advisor to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, became known for his participation in the yellow vest movement and the publication of a pamphlet targeting Emmanuel Macron and his policies.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Christian Collovati59 years old
Miscellaneous
A former naval officer, this private sector employee details his project on a site called ″Le Peuple français″. This resident of Brest promises a security shock, with the triggering of a state of emergency for six months and the establishment of a curfew, to fight against delinquency. He also wants to reduce the number of parliamentarians and expel illegal foreigners.
Right
Candidate
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan65 years old
Stand up France
At the head of Debout la France, which claims to be Gaullist and sovereignist, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan is a presidential candidate for the fourth time. In 2017, he entered into a short-lived alliance with Marine Le Pen. Mayor of Yerres, he loses his seat as deputy for Essonne in 2024.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Sylvain Pierre Durif57 years old
Miscellaneous
This fifty-year-old, known for his conspiratorial videos, announced his candidacy for the presidential election at the end of August in a video in which he presents himself as “the Great Monarch, the Cosmic Christ, the King and Pope Peter”. Candidate for the 2014 municipal elections in a village in Aude, he only received seven votes. He then tried, in vain, to run for president in 2017.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Clara Egger38 years old
Democratic solution
Originally from Ardèche, this political scientist and teacher-researcher at the University of Rotterdam (Netherlands) wants to promote the citizens' initiative referendum (RIC) and give more power to mayors. In 2022, she failed to gather the 500 necessary sponsorships, but she declared herself a candidate again in 2026.
Left
Candidate
Raphaël Glucksmann47 years old
Public square
Former journalist and essayist, Raphaël Glucksmann created his own center-left party, Place publique, in 2018. He leads a joint list with the Socialist Party in the European elections of 2019 and 2024. He is a candidate, for the first time, for the French presidency and participates in the left-wing primary.
Far left
Candidate
Anasse Kazib39 years old
Permanent revolution
A railway unionist, Anasse Kazib is a member of Permanent Revolution, a current of the now independent New Anti-Capitalist Party. He had already tried to run for president in 2022 but did not obtain enough sponsorships.
Far left
Candidate
Selma Labib31 years old
New Anti-Capitalist Party-Revolutionaries
Spokesperson for the NPA-Revolutionaries, from the former New Anti-Capitalist Party, Selma Labib is a presidential candidate. Head of her party's list for the 2024 European elections, this bus driver collected 0.15% of the vote.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Francis Lalanne68 years old
Miscellaneous
A recognized singer, Francis Lalanne has been involved in politics since 2007, first with environmental movements before joining the "yellow vests" then making common cause with the comedian Dieudonné, repeatedly convicted of anti-Semitism and racial insults, who will be his Prime Minister in the event of his accession to the Elysée.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Jean Lassalle71 years old
Let's resist
Mayor of Lourdios-Ichère for forty years and deputy for Pyrénées-Atlantiques for twenty years, he campaigned for MoDem before creating his party, Let's Resist, in 2016. Already a presidential candidate in 2017 (1.21%) and 2022 (3.13%), he allied himself with the hunters' federation for the 2024 European elections but failed to be elected.
Far right
Candidate
Marine Le Pen58 years old
National gathering
The president of the RN group in the Assembly is participating in her fourth presidential election. In 2017 and 2022, she failed in the second round against Emmanuel Macron. After months of uncertainty linked to her conviction in the trial of the assistants of FN MEPs, she confirmed her candidacy on July 7, following the confirmation of the decision on appeal.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Jean-François Legendre70 years old
To us now
A former business manager, this resident of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is a candidate to carry “a citizen alternative” in the presidential campaign. He pleads for more participatory democracy, increased power for mayors thanks to a dedicated ministry, and promises to “break the debt”.
Right
Candidate
David Lisnard57 years old
New Energy
Mayor of Cannes since 2014, David Lisnard is a candidate for the first time under the colors of his own party, Nouvelle Energie, ultraliberal on the economic level. President of the Association of Mayors of France since 2021, he was previously vice-president of LR, before slamming the door in March 2026.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Mira Markovic48 years old
Animalist Party
A psychologist by training, she is co-founder of the party created in 2016 and was elected municipal in the 18th arrondissement in Paris. The movement, which aims to be transpartisan, defends the end of intensive breeding, hunting and bullfighting and the creation of “an independent ministry of animal welfare”. In 2022, its candidate Hélène Thouy had not gathered 500 sponsorships.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Benoît Mathieu27 years old
Miscellaneous
An engineer by training, Benoît Mathieu has been traveling across France by bike since March 2026 to collect the 500 sponsorship promises necessary to be a presidential candidate. He intends to defend a model of more direct democracy where citizens would be more consulted.
Far left
Candidate
Jean-Luc Mélenchon75 years old
Rebellious France
Minister under Lionel Jospin, Jean-Luc Mélenchon first cut his teeth in the PS before breaking with the socialists. He founded La France insoumise in 2016. Coming in third position in the 2022 presidential election with 21.95% of the votes, he is competing for the fourth time in the supreme election, with the hope of finally qualifying for the second round.
Left
Candidate
Antoine Mikolajczak28 years old
Equinox
An engineer by training, Antoine Mikolajczak is the candidate for Equinoxe, a party created in 2021 to defend pragmatic ecology, which claims 6,500 members. In April, they appointed the young man to bring their demands to the Elysée, around three axes: ″decide collectively, produce in France, live in good health″. He was head of the municipal list in the 5th arrondissement of Paris in March 2026 (3.01%).
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Manolo Mlekuz20 years
Trajectory
Manolo Mlekuz has been an activist on the left since his adolescence before moving away from the parties to defend a participatory democracy made by citizens. He travels across France in a van in search of 500 sponsorships, with the plan of bringing together a Constituent Assembly responsible for drafting a new Constitution.
Center
Candidate
Edouard Philippe55 years old
Horizons
Former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron during the first five-year term, from 2017 to 2020, Edouard Philippe is a presidential candidate for the first time. Mayor of Le Havre since 2010, he wears the colors of his own party, Horizons, founded in 2021, which he places in the center right.
Far right
Candidate
Florian Philippot44 years old
The Patriots
Formerly close to Marine Le Pen, Florian Philippot left the RN in 2017 to found his own party, Les Patriotes. Former European MP, he failed to retain his local electoral mandates. In 2022, he tried to run but gave up due to lack of sufficient sponsorship.
Right
Candidate
Gilles Platret53 years old
Right
The various right-wing mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire), elected in 2014, declared himself a candidate during a press conference on October 8. Former vice-president of the Republicans, Gilles Platret wants to repeal the 35-hour week, “reestablish borders” and ban the veil in public spaces.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Natacha Polony51 years old
Miscellaneous
Journalist and essayist, Natacha Polony was editorial director of Marianne. After a brief foray into politics in 2001-2002 within Jean-Pierre Chevènement's party, in 2026 she launched “a movement for all the orphans of politics”. She claims to be a ″social Gaullist″.
Right
Candidate
Bruno Retailleau65 years old
The Republicans
The boss of the Republicans, who wrested the presidency of the right-wing party from his rival Laurent Wauquiez in 2025, was nominated as candidate by LR activists in April 2026. Opposing Emmanuel Macron, this close friend of François Fillon was, however, Minister of the Interior in the governments of Michel Barnier, François Bayrou and Sébastien Lecornu.
Miscellaneous
Candidate
Erwan Rohou57 years old
Independent environmental movement
An engineer, he worked for 25 years at the SNCF and since 2019 has managed the maintenance of the Luxembourg city tramway. He was in 25th position on the list led by Yann Wehrling, former member of the Greens and then of the MoDem, during the European elections in 2024. The Independent Environmental Movement defends an ecology that is “neither right nor left”. It was created in 1994 by Antoine Waechter, who did not obtain 500 sponsorships in 2022.
Left
Candidate
Fabien Roussel57 years old
French Communist Party
National secretary of the PCF since 2018, Fabien Roussel wears the colors of the communists during the 2022 presidential election, where he garners 2.28% of the votes. Deputy for the North until 2024, the mayor of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux is trying the Élysée adventure again.
Left
Candidate
François Ruffin50 years
Get up!
Founder of the newspaper Fakir and director of Merci patron!, François Ruffin has been a deputy for the Somme since 2017, first within the LFI group, before breaking with the rebels in 2024. After the failure of his initiative for a unity primary on the left, he maintains his candidacy in his name.
Left
Candidate
Marine Tondelier40 years old
Environmentalists
National Secretary of Ecologists since 2022, Marine Tondelier declares herself a presidential candidate from October 2025. Regional councilor for Hauts-de-France, she is also an opposition municipal councilor in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), a town held by the RN.
Left
Withdrawn
Clémentine Autain53 years old
The After
Member of Parliament for Seine-Saint-Denis, Clémentine Autain leaves La France insoumise in 2024 and co-founded L’après with a handful of former LFI elected officials. She announced that she was a presidential candidate before giving up in July 2026, after the failure of the unified primary project on the left.
Left
Removed
Olivier Faure58 years old
Socialist Party
First secretary of the Socialist Party since 2018, Olivier Faure is entering the race for the Elysée for the first time by being a candidate in the left-wing primary. Member of Parliament for Seine-et-Marne since 2012, he led the PS group in the Assembly between 2016 and 2018. With the socialist troops, he won the suspension of the pension reform.
Left
Removed
Jérôme Guedj54 years old
Socialist Party
Socialist deputy for Essonne, Jérôme Guedj has been a presidential candidate since February 2026, through the left-wing primary. Parliamentary assistant to Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the start of his career in the 1990s, he distanced himself from the rebel after the attacks of October 7, 2023 in Israel.
Left
Withdrawn
Lydie Massard48 years old
Breton Democratic Union
European MP from 2023 to 2024, Lydie Massard is also a municipal councilor of Pontivy (Morbihan) and spokesperson for the Breton Democratic Union. She announced in April her desire to be a candidate in the left-wing primary, before giving up in early September.
Left
Removed
Emmanuel Maurel53 years old
Republican and socialist left
MEP for ten years, then elected deputy for Val-d'Oise in 2024, Emmanuel Maurel is a candidate in the left-wing primary. Founder of the Republican and Socialist Left, he has not been with the PS for seven years and sits in the National Assembly with the communist group.
