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2027 presidential election

David Lisnard

Nouvelle Énergie

Declared candidacy

Nouvelle Énergie explicitly confirms his 2027 candidacy; he also advocates an open primary.

Source: unenouvelleenergie.fr ↗ · status checked on 29 October 2026 · Report an error

Photo: Grégor Sauvagère, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons, 8 October 2026

In brief

  • Cannes municipal council re-elected him mayor on 21 March 2026.
  • The Association of Mayors of France identifies him as its president in its statement of 27 August 2026.
  • Nouvelle Énergie describes him as its president, a 1992 Sciences Po Bordeaux graduate, a former aide to Jacques Pélissard and a former merchant.

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

Pension levels

  • Fund the new tier by no longer indexing pensions above about €2,000 a month; question the 10% tax allowance on pensions.

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  • A €1,000-a-month old-age minimum.

    Different versions: Different amounts depending on the text: a €1,000-a-month old-age minimum (undated doctrine) and a base of about €1,200 (5 January 2023 op-ed, carried in the FAQ updated 16 October 2026).

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    Nouvelle Énergie doctrine, undated

Funding and system

  • A minimum pay-as-you-go pension for everyone from 65, unconditional, topped up by a €1,000-a-month old-age minimum (undated doctrine).

    Different versions: Different amounts depending on the text: a €1,000-a-month old-age minimum (undated doctrine) and a base of about €1,200 (5 January 2023 op-ed, carried in the FAQ updated 16 October 2026).

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • A pay-as-you-go pension base of about €1,200 a month, topped up by compulsory collective funding fed by a transfer of contributions (5 January 2023 op-ed carried in the FAQ).

    Different versions: Different amounts depending on the text: a €1,000-a-month old-age minimum (undated doctrine) and a base of about €1,200 (5 January 2023 op-ed, carried in the FAQ updated 16 October 2026).

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  • Let everyone choose where their compulsory pension is invested, partly in French companies, with possible early release for a main home; a transition in about eight steps towards €116bn of funding, 40% of pensions according to the document.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

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Other measures

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Agriculture and fisheries 28 positions

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Business, banking and consumers 6 positions
  • Organise local clusters linked to French and European networks in robotics, energy, cybersecurity, AI and data science, bringing together researchers, universities, industry and public/private capital.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Remove advance employee notification before a company sale and instead exempt the seller's gains when selling to an employee takeover vehicle.

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    Nouvelle Énergie booklet on bureaucracy

  • Ban CSRD over-implementation, apply the European threshold described as 250 staff and exempt firms with fewer than 50 staff, including indirect contractual obligations; legal descriptions remain the booklet's assertions.

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Culture 2 positions
  • According to the FAQ reporting a May 6, 2026 intervention, refocus public broadcasting on two major channels, close or reorganise some services and privatise those with commercial value, including France 2; the measure does not cover all public broadcasting.

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  • The FAQ reports a May 13, 2026 demand to transfer Samuel Paty to the Panthéon as a tribute to teachers and a national response to Islamism.

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Defence 2 positions
  • The FAQ reports a June 9, 2026 proposal to take responsibility for and finance a sovereign air-combat system integrating Rafale F 5, a stealth drone, combat cloud, sensors and nuclear deterrence; claims about failed Franco-German programmes remain attributed diagnoses.

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  • Increase defence spending according to the reported April 21, 2026 intervention, with no new amount specified on this page.

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Economy, budget and taxes 30 positions
  • The doctrine discusses reducing public expenditure by eight GDP percentage points over ten years and maintaining it below 50% of GDP; this is not an updated five-year budget.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • The doctrine costs removal of C 3 S and, where applicable, CVAE at €11.5 billion on top of an existing €10 billion cut in its context, aiming to move production taxes from 2% to 1% of GDP; timing and the government reference are not explicitly updated.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Study national and local shares of corporation tax to reconcile competitiveness with municipal tax autonomy, involving elected representatives' associations; a separate paper is announced, with no final mechanism here.

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Education 37 positions
  • Allow teachers to apply directly to schools and move between them more easily, alongside headteachers' staffing and evaluation autonomy.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Retain a minimum-hours common curriculum and give schools control of remaining content and schedules; strengthen individual assessment in French, mathematics and a foreign language, plus literature, classical languages, history/geography and arts through a national repertoire.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Expand need-based and merit scholarships and give families an education entitlement equivalent to each pupil's public cost; budget neutrality is the document's claim, not independently verified.

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Energy 6 positions
  • The FAQ reports a September 22, 2026 proposal to temporarily suspend energy-saving certificates during the crisis to lower fuel prices for everyone; immediate price reduction and no deficit effect are claimed outcomes, not verified here.

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  • Refinement of the energy-saving-certificate proposal: suspend the fuel obligation for six months according to September 22, 2026; a claimed 17-cent-per-litre reduction according to April 21. The candidate asserts no budget or environmental impact; this is not certified.

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  • The FAQ reports an April 6, 2026 rapid reduction of fuel surtaxes, potentially targeted at exposed economic sectors, separately from suspending energy-saving certificates; rates and duration are unspecified in this excerpt.

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Environment 16 positions

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Foreign trade 4 positions

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Health 58 positions
  • Shift healthcare from hospitals and treatment towards health outcomes and demand through governance reform, research and reindustrialisation; the page leaves detail to a specialist working group.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • The proposed European pharmaceutical consortium would pool demand, guarantee prices and relocate value chains, beyond the general aim of European production.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Replacing state medical assistance with emergency aid is presented as saving €700 million; this is a programme assertion without a demonstrated calculation here.

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Housing and planning 13 positions
  • After repealing SRU Article 55, consider a temporary capped target for newly built housing negotiated with central and local government; this replacement is expressed as a possibility.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Replace the ban on renting inefficient homes with a bonus–penalty mechanism and remove primary-energy indicators from energy ratings where they penalise electric heating.

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    Nouvelle Énergie booklet on bureaucracy

  • Make heritage-architect opinions advisory outside main façades, visible roofs and protected elements; set a two-month deadline followed by tacit approval and prevent refusal of insulation adapted to old buildings. The examples table gives energy-rating compliance priority over aesthetic opinions.

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    Nouvelle Énergie booklet on bureaucracy

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Immigration, asylum and nationality 23 positions
  • Remove any possibility of regularisation after clandestine entry into the country.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Coordinate prefectures, police, tax, welfare, hospitals and private institutions dealing with foreign nationals, and make residence-status checks more systematic.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Limit legal quotas to specific shortage-sector economic needs, restrict private/family-life permits, strengthen borders with Frontex and organise return of rejected applicants through procedures and bilateral agreements.

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International affairs and Europe 11 positions

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Justice and security 41 positions
  • Upgrade the national police over ten years, redirect administrative savings towards equipment and revise working arrangements and procedures to match operational needs.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Create a junior ministry for internal security overseeing national agencies and decentralised territorial police; open recruitment and transfer routes, confer judicial powers and assign specialised territorial officers prosecution functions for misdemeanours and minor offences.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Bring justice resources to the cited European average, separate its budget from prison administration, align court-clerk staffing with workloads and double prosecutors and sentence-enforcement judges.

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Natural areas, water and territories 2 positions

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Rights and freedoms 3 positions

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Science, digital and communications 5 positions

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Social protection 19 positions
  • A minimum pay-as-you-go pension for everyone from 65, unconditional, topped up by a €1,000-a-month old-age minimum (undated doctrine).

    Different versions: Different amounts depending on the text: a €1,000-a-month old-age minimum (undated doctrine) and a base of about €1,200 (5 January 2023 op-ed, carried in the FAQ updated 16 October 2026).

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • A pay-as-you-go pension base of about €1,200 a month, topped up by compulsory collective funding fed by a transfer of contributions (5 January 2023 op-ed carried in the FAQ).

    Different versions: Different amounts depending on the text: a €1,000-a-month old-age minimum (undated doctrine) and a base of about €1,200 (5 January 2023 op-ed, carried in the FAQ updated 16 October 2026).

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  • A €1,000-a-month old-age minimum.

    Different versions: Different amounts depending on the text: a €1,000-a-month old-age minimum (undated doctrine) and a base of about €1,200 (5 January 2023 op-ed, carried in the FAQ updated 16 October 2026).

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    Nouvelle Énergie doctrine, undated

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State, institutions and administration 70 positions

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Transport 2 positions

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Work and employment 16 positions
  • Apply the single contract merging permanent and fixed-term contracts to new jobs, with progressively increasing dismissal compensation; do not infer immediate conversion of existing contracts.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Introduce negative employer contributions for hiring people who have received RSA income support for over two years; the duration threshold is explicit but no rate is specified.

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    Nouvelle Énergie programme presented for David Lisnard

  • Allow company agreements to vary statutory hours in either direction while preserving eleven hours' rest; set default overtime premiums at 10%, without additional employer charges.

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    Nouvelle Énergie booklet on bureaucracy

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In the polls

All polls ›

Tested in 10 polls whose results are shown here. A score depends on the scenario: the list of candidates put to respondents.

First round: every scenario tested 16 results · 10 polls · scale 0–40%
0 10 20 30 40 2024 2025 2026

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 »)
  • 5.5% Ifop · 19 October 2026 First-round scenario with François Ruffin, Dominique de Villepin and David Lisnard running (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle – hypothèse F. Ruffin, D. de Villepin et D. Lisnard candidats »)
  • 7% Ifop · 19 October 2026 First-round scenario with David Lisnard as the only right-wing candidate (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle – hypothèse D. Lisnard seul candidat de droite »)
  • 5.5% Elabe · 16 October 2026 First-round scenario — question code Q5 (« Q5 »)
  • 6.5% Elabe · 16 October 2026 First-round scenario — question code Q6 (« Q6 »)
  • 7% Cluster17 · 15 October 2026 Scenario 1 (« Hypothèse 1 »)

Announced upcoming appearances

No appearance announced by name in the agendas read.

Events announced by their party or campaign

These announcements do not say the person takes part.

  • Monday 2 November 2026
    18:00

    Nouvelle Énergie after-work gathering — Prague (« AFTERWORK NOUVELLE ÉNERGIE PRAGUE »)

    Prague · Source: unenouvelleenergie.fr ↗

  • Tuesday 3 November 2026
    18:30

    Nouvelle Énergie after-work gathering — Paris 2nd arrondissement (« AFTERWORK NOUVELLE ÉNERGIE : PARIS 2E »)

    Source: unenouvelleenergie.fr ↗

  • Tuesday 3 November 2026
    18:30

    Nouvelle Énergie gathering — Brive (« RENCONTRE NOUVELLE ÉNERGIE : BRIVE »)

    Brive-la-Gaillarde · Source: unenouvelleenergie.fr ↗

  • Tuesday 3 November 2026
    18:30

    Jeunes Énergies after-work gathering — Clermont-Ferrand (« AFTER WORK JEUNES ÉNERGIES : CLERMONT-FERRAND »)

    Clermont-Ferrand · Source: unenouvelleenergie.fr ↗

  • Tuesday 3 November 2026
    18:30

    Nouvelle Énergie after-work gathering — Angoulême (« AFTERWORK NOUVELLE ÉNERGIE : ANGOULÊME »)

    Source: unenouvelleenergie.fr ↗

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Sources read

82 pages and documents read, on 2 sites.

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