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Portrait of Bruno Retailleau

2027 presidential election

Bruno Retailleau

Les Républicains

Declared candidacy

Les Républicains' candidate, selected by members according to its 20 April 2026 statement.

Sources: x.com ↗ · republicains.fr ↗ · avecretailleau.fr ↗ · status checked on 29 October 2026 · Report an error

Photo: Thomas Bresson, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons, 24 March 2025

In brief

  • Senator for Vendée, re-elected on 27 September 2026; member of the Les Républicains Senate group and the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed Forces Committee.
  • The Senate also lists his current mandate as a Pays de la Loire regional councillor.
  • His Senate service was interrupted while in government; the register records its resumption on 13 November 2025. It classifies his ministerial posts, LR group presidency and departmental and regional presidencies as former roles.
  • His campaign biography records his election as president of Les Républicains in 2025. (according to the campaign)

Summarised from their own texts and those of their campaign or party. Each proposal shows the kind of text, its date and its source. Summaries are written in French; the English is our translation.

Pensions

Retirement age and contribution period

  • Allow retirement at 63, with a full-rate pension without reduction at 65; the pension is still calculated on the quarters contributed.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 15 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Same private/public ages, adjusted by statutory life-expectancy formula. Before 65 about 7% per year: 86% at 63,93% at 64,100% at 65 of reference pension; contribution duration may still prorate(41/43 example).2027 old rules; old/new gap capped±3%2028,±6%2029,±12%2030, full scheme 2031.€9 bn 2032 gain/future balance are forecasts, not guarantees.

  • Lower from 67 to 65 the age at which the reduction for incomplete careers is cancelled.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 15 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Overlaps another campaign measure; the campaign stresses the benefit for women and interrupted careers. The full rate does not necessarily remove prorating by quarters: it is not a promise of an unconditional full pension.

  • For full careers before 63: exempt from pension and unemployment contributions and guarantee the full rate from 63.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 15 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    43 contributed years required; around+14% net pay and neutrality if 10% more older workers stay active are forecasts. Pension uplift/reformed work-pension combination from 65.15 Octsource is newer than 11 Sep 03-04; compare parameters rather than automatically merge.

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Pension levels

Nothing found in the sources read — no passage identified on this subject in the sources reviewed; other sources may exist.

Funding and system

  • Direct savings towards businesses and open a voluntary supplementary retirement account for every worker.

    Different versions: Two versions published by the campaign: a voluntary supplementary retirement account (page updated 11 September 2026) and an individual account funded by a 1% contribution on pay (page updated 15 October 2026). Both are shown with their dates.

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    Simplify products and long-term tax incentives; incentive/profit-sharing/voluntary flows, no diversion of pension contributions or reduction of pay-as-you-go pensions proposed. Joint governance and diversified prudent transparent real-economy investments. Individually owned, voluntary membership; eventual productive-capital target around €1 trillion, no guaranteed return.

  • Create an individual retirement account, in the private and public sectors, funded notably by a 1% contribution on pay below the Social Security ceiling.

    Conditions: The measure concerns workers; current retirees are excluded.

    Different versions: Two versions published by the campaign: a voluntary supplementary retirement account (page updated 11 September 2026) and an individual account funded by a 1% contribution on pay (page updated 15 October 2026). Both are shown with their dates.

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    A 1% contribution on pay below the social-security ceiling would be split equally between employee and employer; the account would be locked until retirement and given proposed constitutional protection. The campaign estimates a €6bn flow in 2032 and says existing pay-as-you-go contributions would remain unchanged. In the public sector, the supplementary contribution on bonuses would be doubled and paid into the account; its interaction with the 1% needs clarification. Profit-sharing and incentive payments would enter by default. Social partners would oversee tender-selected managers, labelled funds, capped fees and investment in the French economy; withdrawals could be a lump sum or annuity. Assuming a target annual return of at least 4%, the source projects about €27,000 in nominal euros from the 1% contribution alone over a full career, or about €118,000 over forty years with another €1,000 annually from profit-sharing and incentive payments. Its long-term target is for funded pension savings to provide 25–30% of the pension of young people now entering employment. Current retirees are excluded from this measure. These are targets and projections, not guarantees. This conflicts with the older voluntary, no-new-contribution wording in BR-04-17.

  • The campaign puts at €42bn in 2032 the improvement in public finances from its pension programme, with a 1% contribution and a doubling of the civil service's additional pension (RAFP).

    Different versions: Two versions published by the campaign: a voluntary supplementary retirement account (page updated 11 September 2026) and an individual account funded by a 1% contribution on pay (page updated 15 October 2026). Both are shown with their dates.

    Campaign proposal or statement document dated 12 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr, p. 8 (new tab) Report an error

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    The table attributes €12bn to age and long-career measures; €7.5bn to investment returns on reserves; €7.2bn to alignment with Agirc-Arrco; €6bn to the 1% contribution; €4.3bn to doubled RAFP contributions; €3bn to closure of special schemes; and €2bn to fraud, overpayments and administration. It proposes no retirement before 63 except for disability, invalidity or incapacity, funded accounts for all, default allocation of profit-sharing and incentive payments, and removal of the social levy. The campaign calculation combines several kinds of gains and revenue; it is not an independent assessment. The €12bn age-measure estimate differs from the €9bn on the newer HTML page.

  • Direct part of savings to company equity and to a voluntary supplementary pension.

    Different versions: Two versions published by the campaign: a voluntary supplementary retirement account (page updated 11 September 2026) and an individual account funded by a 1% contribution on pay (page updated 15 October 2026). Both are shown with their dates.

    Campaign proposal or statement read on 29 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr, p. 36, 37 (new tab) Report an error

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    Simpler products, long-term tax incentives, flows previously towards public debt/social housing. Account for each worker, funded through incentive/profit-sharing/voluntary savings, jointly managed diversified prudent transparent investment. Eventual €1 tn productive-capital target; details deferred. This booklet says voluntary, whereas October pension pages add a 1% contribution for all employees.

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Other measures

  • Reform work-pension combination and exempt specified older workers from contributions.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 11 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Before statutory age, pension/unemployment contribution relief once all quarters are earned. Afterwards, one scheme replaces pension uplift/work-pension combination: only CSG/CRDS, partial pension-pay combination, no six-month waiting period. End 24-hour part-time minimum; long-career/hardship schemes said to remain. Claimed neutrality conditional on 10% more older workers staying active; estimates unverified.

  • Make it easier to combine work and a pension.

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  • Exempt some older workers from contributions before the legal age and revise the work-and-pension rules after it.

    Campaign proposal or statement document dated December 2025 Source: avecretailleau.fr, p. 13, 25, 26 (new tab) Report an error

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    Before statutory age: all quarters, outside existing long-career/hardship/child-credit schemes, exempt pension/unemployment contributions. Afterwards: all except CSG/CRDS, pension reduced by 30% work income, remove six-month same-employer delay and replace existing mechanisms including pension uplift. Example applies 30% to net income; p 13 monthly €300/450 descriptions differ from p 26 approximate €3.4 k/4.8 k yearly. Neutrality assumes 10% more seniors; later 14-04 retains 5% uplift.

By topic

Agriculture and fisheries 34 positions
  • Include agriculture among constitutionally superior national interests.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 24 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Constitutional amendment then organic law; explicit trade-offs with environment, without exclusive environmental priority. Fully integrate new genomic techniques. Campaign scientific/legal reasoning unverified.

  • Replace constitutional precaution and abandon the uniform 50% Ecophyto reduction target.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 11 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Constitutional referendum; case-by-case pesticide permissions based on risk-benefit assessment, with published adversarial scientific evaluation. Overlaps 01-11 but adds the specific Ecophyto 2030 target.

  • Abolish OFB and transfer non-hunting environmental policing to the gendarmerie.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 24 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Return to AFB/ONCFS arrangements with transferred staff and no claimed new structure. Presumed good faith, targeted proportionate checks and penalties for intentional fraud rather than formal errors. General agency audit may lead to closures.

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Business, banking and consumers 21 positions
  • Abolish or narrow 100 production rules through ordinances and constitutional amendment.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 11 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Only ten examples here: 50-worker threshold raised to 100; safety means rather than outcome duty; works council at 50 unless agreement; remove BDESE below 250; new auto rules only for new models; moratorium on AGEC beyond EU;EU-aligned ICPE; remove PTGE and designate farm reservoirs major public interest; non-intentional error non-fault; replace precaution. Full list promised in technical note, still requiring reading. Summer 2027 enabling act and ongoing departmental simplification. Claimed zero cost unverified.

  • Defer productive-business transfer duties until disposal or liquidation.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 24 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Duties assessed at transfer, not exempted; companies and sole traders; holdings proportionate to operating interests. Automatic without approval while genuine activity continues; investment cash not a trigger. State cashflow deferral, not proven revenue neutrality.

  • Cut labour and production taxes by around €40 bn according to the campaign.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 11 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Over €25 bn labour, near €15 bn production: abolish C3S€5.3 bn, CVAE€4.3 bn; social levy reform €2.8 bn; industrial CFE relief €1.9 bn. Keep 20% levy on mandatory profit-sharing, exempt incentive/extra-statutory sharing and individual retirement saving. Protect research tax credit with anti-abuse review and five-year tax stability. 60% disadvantage reduction/funding claims unverified; avoid double-counting repeated envelopes.

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Culture —

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Defence 3 positions
  • Progressively multiply defence AI funding by five to €650 m/year.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 15 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    €130 m/year 2024 baseline; cybersecurity/drones-autonomous systems/robotics/quantum priorities;French/Europeancritical procurement. Five-year €2.5 bn total, €2 bnwithin military trajectory and €500 mnew; envisaged European Defence Fund, BPI/CDC/PPP/savings. Budget/adoption unverified; no actual procurement commitment here.

  • Defence AI budget fivefold.

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  • Multiply defence AIresources fivefold and reject unilateral autonomous-weapons disarmament.

    Campaign proposal or statement document dated July 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr, p. 6, 34, 43 (new tab) Report an error

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    Prioritiescyber/drones-autonomy/robotics/quantum, French/EUprocurement, BPI/CDC/PPP/savings. Includes lethal autonomous weapons, red lines based on vital interests/law/doctrine, ethical reciprocity for deterrence: do not omit contentious element. 2024 base €130 m/year→650 target, €2.5 bnoverterm with 2 LPM described already funded and 0.5 new; gradual growth without annual series. No demonstrated unbreakable cryptography.

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Economy, budget and taxes 20 positions
  • Put the 2011 public-finance constitutional bill to referendum within 100 days under Article 89.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 15 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Framework laws at least three years for state/social security/local government; binding spending ceilings and minimum revenue measures; no framework, no budget. Automatic constitutional review, Courtof Auditorsmonitoring, stability programme to Parliamentbefore Brussels. Procedure/legal interpretation not certified here.

  • Target €197 bn savings by 2032,€146 bn for deficit reduction and €51 bn returned.

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    Campaign scenario:deficit<3%2031,2.2%2032, primary surplus 2030; assumed end 2027 baseline 5.2% deficit/121.5% debt. Macroeconomic assumptions/yields unverified. Do not add 09-13 which repeats same envelope.

  • Target €32 bn savings through private provision, policy review and ending ineffective schemes.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 15 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    €5 bn private provision, €13 bn reviewing three policies, €14 bn ending schemes; property/procurement, training, intermittent energy, immigration, cooperation, culture/media, transition, jobs/youth and tax niches. Detailed instruments not enumerated here, fiscal targets unverified.

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Education 51 positions
  • Abolish school catchment rules and the 80-20 allocation rule, and allow home education until age 6.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 24 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Municipal-council consultation before closing a rural class; multi-year primary-school network agreed with municipalities. No-new-spending and comparative-cost claims remain campaign assertions.

  • Create 1000 innovative public schools by 2032 and generalise school autonomy.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 24 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Five-year contracts with education authorities and local government; freedom over hiring, cycles, methods and curriculum departures; three-year reviews and loss of status after failure. Campaign claims a fixed budget. Abolish the curriculum council and retain broad curricular guidance; progressively give primary schools institutional autonomy and directors authority. Public Ofsted-style evaluation of public and contracted private schools replaces the national evaluation council.

  • Increase teachers’ base pay by around €135 net monthly at entry and €300 mid-career.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 24 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Targets: align entry pay with European average and close at least half the mid-career gap. Better-paid five-year difficult-post missions; shortage allowances; recognition for coordination, mentoring and peer training; priority-education reform including rural areas. Campaign claims demographic redeployment exceeding €3 bn/year by term end; estimate unverified.

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Energy 33 positions
  • Replace the Universal Nuclear Payment with 15-year nuclear contracts for up to 30 TWh/year.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 11 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    EDF/willing suppliers, prices indexed to renovated-fleet costs and initial volume-based contribution; nuclear output target 400 TWh. Claimed industry price reduction up to 10%, network tariffs 5–10% medium-term through network discipline and regulator pass-through review. End new solar/wind support, delay authorised capacity if oversupplied and stop non-priority network investment. Targets/effects unverified.

  • Set a nuclear operating horizon up to 80 years, conditional on safety and ASNR findings.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 22 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Ten-year checks retained; no guarantee every reactor reaches 80. Implementation conditional on ASNR over-60 findings, which campaign says expected November 2026.€6 bn/year refurbishment and lower-cost effects are not recertified.

  • Complete six EPR2 with first operation targeted 2038, then eight more if progress is satisfactory.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 22 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Eight-unit order envisaged in first two term years, conditional. Modular stable designs and European supply chain. Claimed €72.8 bn 2020/~€84 bn 2026 cost including €6.3 bn committed, 60% state loan linked to CDC;€75–110/MW h and 30% series cost reduction remain attributed projections.

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Environment 5 positions

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Foreign trade 5 positions

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Health 3 positions
  • Health orientations: regulate establishment in undersupplied areas, improve hospital careers and support multidisciplinary health centres.

    Note: Campaign answer with no publication date; it differs on some points from the detailed pages.

    Campaign proposal or statement read on 29 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

  • Review sick leave at 3 then 6 months and control atypical prescribing.

    Campaign proposal or statement document dated 12 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr, p. 9 (new tab) Report an error

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    Medical adviser guides adapted return/therapeutic part-time/retraining/invalidity. Atypical prescribers under targets then permanent prior authorisation; first leave capped without specified duration, renewal after examination, teleconsultation three non-renewable days. Attributed savings €1.7+€1+€0.7 bn respectively.

  • Impose one private-sector waiting day that cannot be reimbursed and reinvest health-system efficiency.

    Campaign proposal or statement document dated 12 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr, p. 9 (new tab) Report an error

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    Employer/top-up insurer cannot cover it; projected €0.6 bnsaving. Sick-leave total €4 bn 2032; other efficiency gains wholly reinvested in health and excluded from €197 bn. Not a proposal to deny all care.

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Housing and planning 61 positions
  • Simplify local planning and enact emergency legislation to halve building delays.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 11 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Single desk/approval by silence; mayor decides, developer certifies compliance, during/post-build inspections with correction/fines/demolition for serious breaches. Appeals require direct significant impact, deposit returned if non-abusive, priority constrained hearing and shorter legal clearance. Claimed no new spending.

  • Automatically transfer €9000 of VAT to municipalities for each new dwelling.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 11 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Public-facility funding without application/tender. Prefect-territory contracts set volumes/locations by local facilities/transport/jobs. Claimed self-funding through construction VAT unverified.

  • Freeze new building standards for ten years and halt 2028/2031 RE 2020 tightening stages.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 24 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    RE 2020 retained/stabilised and revised for summer comfort. Organic law against requirements beyond EU rules; remove offsite/prefabrication barriers. Quoted prefab cost/time savings are not guaranteed outcomes.

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Immigration, asylum and nationality 12 positions
  • Abolish simple birthright citizenship in favour of descent or verified assimilation.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 24 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Constitutional amendment then referendum; stated conditions include language, history, institutions, compliance with laws and absence of conviction. Updated 24 September 2026.

  • Constitutionalise mandatory expulsion of foreign nationals convicted of offences or threatening public order.

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    The proposal seeks to override legal obstacles and make marriage conditional on lawful residence; it refers to the treaty safeguard. No legality assessment is made here. Updated 24 September 2026.

  • Set statutory visa and residence-permit quotas and maintain internal-border controls without a time limit.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 24 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Government allocations would reflect integration capacity and origin-country cooperation; visas would be reduced when a state refuses to readmit irregular nationals. Updated 24 September 2026.

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International affairs and Europe 8 positions

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Justice and security 5 positions
  • Establish a constitutional right to security alongside fundamental freedoms.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 24 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Associated proposed reforms: mandatory minimum sentences for the most serious offences; criminal adulthood at 15; post-sentence preventive detention for terrorists; ban on consulting jihadist content; prison searches and remote hearings for dangerous prisoners; expanded police powers and technology. Constitutional revision is presented as a prerequisite; that claim and feasibility are unverified. Updated 24 September 2026.

  • Constitutional right to security.

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  • Constitutionalise a package of security powers and penalties.

    Campaign proposal or statement document dated September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr, p. 15, 17 (new tab) Report an error

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    Right to security, police technology, mandatory minimums for the most serious offences, criminal majority at 15, prison searches, remote hearings for dangerous inmates, preventive detention of terrorists after sentence, ban on consulting jihadist content. Page 17 additionally lists repeat-offender minimums, detention of dangerous foreigners and monitoring radicalised people; these remain distinct.

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Natural areas, water and territories 1 position

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Rights and freedoms 2 positions
  • Define constitutional secularism to allow neutrality rules for specified service users and preserve Judeo-Christian traditional celebrations.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 22 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Extension to users in situations specified by statute, rather than an immediately universal rule. Updated 22 September 2026.

  • Constitutional secularism, Judeo-Christian roots.

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Science, digital and communications 27 positions
  • Concentrate public research on seven strategic sectors under a Planning Commission roadmap.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 11 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Future energy/nuclear;AI; biotechnology; materials/batteries; nano-/microelectronics; cybersecurity; quantum. Measurable milestones/outcomes and redirected funding from unselected priorities. No quantified new budget specified.

  • Tie all research funding to an industrial prospect and redeploy up to 2000 research posts.

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    Even distant industrial outlet and credible market path; long-term economic impact, science/technology priority and partnerships measured in output/jobs/competitiveness. Claimed constant budget; research tax credit preserved with anti-abuse measures; reversible laboratory-business careers without penalty.

  • Host sensitive AI uses under European jurisdiction and create EuroDatas.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 15 October 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    State functions, sensitive essential operators and critical infrastructure on Sec Num Cloud-type fully EU-jurisdiction hosting. Public sovereign sectoral data spaces consolidated as EuroDatasfor European model training. Only sovereignty/migration premium budgeted, ordinary hosting excluded; envisaged EU cofunding not guaranteed or quantified.

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Social protection 32 positions
  • Replace RSA, the activity bonus and ASS with an activity-incentive payment.

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    Without work/income:€300/month plus €250 from 15 hours training/jobsearch, period unspecified here. Top-up reduced by 30% of pay, ending above €1833/month. Independent of family situation, with stated non-interaction with family/housing benefits. Remove statutory 24-hour weekly part-time minimum unless collective agreement. Claimed €2 bn annual savings unverified.

  • Create a single social account and cap non-contributory aid at 70% of net minimum wage per adult.

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    Record aid from all sources/forms; disability, dependency and old-age support excluded from cap; pensions and unemployment outside calculation. Mandatory shared national register and differential adjustment payments. Claimed €10 bn/year gain unverified.

  • Merge twelve schemes into a €240/month family payment per child from birth to 18, subject to conditions.

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    Lawful French residence and at least five years’ work, with no means test claimed; temporary judicial suspension for parental educational failure. Retain specific under-3/single-parent/housing/disability support. Monthly withholding offset then DGF i Ptransfer if tax insufficient, automatic without application. Claimed €40.3 bn cost excluding third-child bonus, €41 bn replaced schemes and €600–800 m administration savings, unverified.

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State, institutions and administration 31 positions
  • Extend legislative referendums to every subject and shield referendum laws from judicial review.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 22 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Constitutional amendment remains under Article 89; the proposed shield covers any judge and legal text. Updated 22 September 2026.

  • Allow the President to refer a struck-down law to voters or Congress to authorise promulgation.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 22 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Amend Article 62; Congress would require three fifths of votes cast. Updated 22 September 2026.

  • Create a constitutional safeguard allowing a statute to override certain treaty interpretations.

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    Decision through referendum or organic law, with constitutional review on the parliamentary route; EU law handled separately. Reversibility stated. Updated 22 September 2026.

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Transport —

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Work and employment 31 positions
  • Cut contributions by €30 bn/year, split equally between employees and businesses.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 24 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Detail estimates around €500 net/year at median pay, narrower than the broad headline. Employer cut from the first hour. Claimed funding: unemployment €12.5–15.7 bn, social account/fraud €10 bn, corporate-tax receipts €4 bn, activity incentive €2 bn, total €28.5–31.7 bn. Estimates/effects unverified.

  • Set an annualised 1623-hour threshold above which employee and employer contributions disappear.

    2027 programme or campaign document updated 11 September 2026 Source: avecretailleau.fr (new tab) Report an error

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    Source cites 1607 currently, requiring 16 additional hours. CSG/CRDS remain and overtime income-tax relief retained. Budget neutrality, near €11 bn employer gain and GDP/pay effects are attributed projections, not guaranteed outcomes.

  • Reform work-pension combination and exempt specified older workers from contributions.

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    Before statutory age, pension/unemployment contribution relief once all quarters are earned. Afterwards, one scheme replaces pension uplift/work-pension combination: only CSG/CRDS, partial pension-pay combination, no six-month waiting period. End 24-hour part-time minimum; long-career/hardship schemes said to remain. Claimed neutrality conditional on 10% more older workers staying active; estimates unverified.

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In the polls

All polls ›

Tested in 27 polls whose results are shown here. A score depends on the scenario: the list of candidates put to respondents.

First round: every scenario tested 118 results · 27 polls · scale 0–40%
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One dot per scenario, no average; hollow dot: sample size or margins not transcribed in our dataset. Compare with the other people tested ›

First round — the latest results

  • 6% OpinionWay · 22 October 2026 First-round presidential voting intention (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle »)
  • 5% Ifop · 19 October 2026 First-round scenario with Édouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal running (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle - hypothèse E. Philippe et G. Attal candidats »)
  • 7.5% Ifop · 19 October 2026 First-round scenario with Édouard Philippe representing the centre bloc (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle – E. Philippe candidat du bloc central »)
  • 7% Ifop · 19 October 2026 First-round scenario with Gabriel Attal representing the centre bloc (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle – G. Attal candidat du bloc central »)
  • 6.5% Ifop · 19 October 2026 First-round scenario with Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Raphaël Glucksmann as the only left-wing candidates (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle – hypothèse JL. Mélenchon et R. Glucksmann seuls candidats de gauche »)
  • 6% Ifop · 19 October 2026 First-round scenario with Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Hollande as the only left-wing candidates (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle – hypothèse JL. Mélenchon et F. Hollande seuls candidats de gauche »)

Second round — the latest head-to-heads

  • 42% Ifop · 25 August 2026 Second-round scenario with Bruno Retailleau and Marine Le Pen (« L’intention de vote au second tour de l’élection présidentielle - hypothèse B. Retailleau et M. Le Pen »)
  • 44% Elabe · 10 July 2026 Second-round scenario — question code Q13: Bruno Retailleau against Marine Le Pen (« Q13 »)
  • 47% Ifop · 30 April 2025 Second-round scenario with Bruno Retailleau and Jordan Bardella (« L’intention de vote au second tour de l’élection présidentielle - hypothèse Bruno Retailleau et Jordan Bardella »)

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