2027 presidential election
David Saforcada
Declared candidacyHis site presents his presidential programme for 2027.
Source: davidsaforcada.fr ↗ · status checked on 29 October 2026 · Report an error
Photo: Jojohann, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons, 30 March 2016
In brief
- He describes military service, salaried work and business ownership, and identifies with Bonapartism. (according to the campaign)
Proposals
Compare with other candidates ›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
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Replace the single legal age with 40 to 43 years of contributions depending on generation and situation, with protections for long careers and incapacity; pay-as-you-go remains the base.
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Recognise arduous work (physical, hours, risks, psychological load) through contribution years, early retirement or retraining.
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
Nothing found in the sources read — no passage identified on this subject in the sources reviewed; other sources may exist.
Other measures
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Ensure clear timely pay and pensions adapted to service constraints, retain shortage specialists, support housing, childcare, partners’ jobs, schooling, transfers and civilian transition, and renovate barracks and bases.
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Improve pay and sharing of leave around the first child; organise cover, training and return interviews without career penalties, and recognise parental time in social and pension entitlements.
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Credit career interruptions or substantial reductions for childrearing on at least a minimum-wage basis within statutory limits, prioritising mothers without excluding fathers who took them; support stable youth employment and chosen adapted senior work.
By topic
Agriculture and fisheries 42 positions
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Defend an agricultural exception, fair prices and short supply chains, with protection against unfair competition.
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Assess food capacity by product and territory, distinguishing normal needs, crises, missing inputs and rebuilding times.
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Pass an agricultural exception within six months prioritising food continuity, income and national capacity over trade, competition and procurement rules; evaluate outcomes and consumer costs.
Business, banking and consumers 24 positions
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Reindustrialise through quality, productivity, safety and repairability rather than general wage or standards cuts; give sovereignty-critical production specific protection and require other supported activities to show a market.
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Maintain national crisis capacity for energy, defence, telecoms, cyber, payments, networks, health and components; where wholly domestic production is disproportionate, retain French architecture, data, maintenance, critical parts and final integration.
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Require at least two independent supply sources per vital sector, stocks, recycling and substitution; mandate reporting of new dependencies; accelerate mineral inventories and competitive French processing rather than raw exports.
Culture 60 positions
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Expand broad access to arts, reading and heritage, gastronomy and craft expertise.
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Strengthen French in education, law, culture and diplomacy and create a Francophone Erasmus for students, researchers and artists.
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Plan cultural policy, support French creation and overseas distribution, reform public broadcasting and oppose cultural uniformity and censorship of ideas.
Defence 54 positions
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Invest in national defence and deterrence and develop overseas territories, the maritime economic zone and blue economy.
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Reject an integrated European army, deterrent or political command; join shared operations only with French-approved missions and rules while protecting critical technology and supplies.
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Maintain national detection, attribution and intervention capabilities for air, maritime, electromagnetic, digital and space domains under French command.
Economy, budget and taxes 30 positions
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Reshore strategic sectors and support participation linking capital, labour and the state.
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Assess every economic policy against ownership, financing, technological control, production location and endurance during supply disruption.
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Create a mainly operational National Economic Sovereignty Council under the prime minister; publish a map of vital capabilities, stocks, owners, suppliers and rebuilding times within six months and update it annually, with a protected annex where necessary.
Education 64 positions
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Give each strategic sector a ten-year skills plan involving technical institutions, apprenticeships, modern training equipment and industrial doctorates; assess qualifications, mentoring and lasting employment rather than contract counts.
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Ensure every child encounters works, learns at least one artistic practice and visits cultural places regularly; strengthen adult evening classes and popular education and require accessible venues, works and digital tools.
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Organise a national food-and-service training pathway through apprenticeships, schools, competitions and retraining, covering products, nutrition, languages, hospitality and management.
Energy 11 positions
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Assess energy by full system cost, networks, storage, materials, recycling and dispatchability; target secure supplies, stable prices, reduced fossil imports and suitable electrification.
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Extend reactors meeting safety standards, build planned EPR2 units, prepare useful small reactors and revive advanced-generation and closed-fuel-cycle research; preserve industrial capabilities, stocks and diversified uranium supply.
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Keep dams, grids and strategic storage under durable national control; reject forced competition threatening system integrity; prioritise connections by jobs, sovereignty and readiness, matching large consumers to available capacity.
Environment 25 positions
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Pay for soil, hedgerow, pollination, grassland, wetland and diversity services beyond baseline duties; favour measurable results, trials and impact assessment before new constraints.
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Fund regular ocean observations, stations, ships, sensors and participatory science, using scientific expertise and explaining trade-offs among protection, jobs, food, energy and sovereignty.
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Give every protected area rules, management, enforcement, indicators and public evaluation; select strongly protected zones by ecological value in consultation with fishers, scientists, representatives and competent customary authorities.
Foreign trade 9 positions
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Require clear ownership, balanced governance, fallback solutions and skills retained in France in strategic partnerships; reject exclusive dependency and non-reciprocal transfers.
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Immediately impose a moratorium on new comprehensive free-trade agreements and reject Mercosur; publicly audit existing agreements within twelve months, then renegotiate, safeguard, suspend or terminate through applicable procedures.
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Restore procurement preferences, antidumping, quotas or local-content requirements when needed, foreign-subsidy controls, border adjustments and exclusion of non-reciprocal offers, without indefinitely protecting rents.
Health 45 positions
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Define minimum coverage of maternity, paediatric and child services; assess every merger or closure for access and safety, with mobile teams remaining supplementary.
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Retain AME focused on urgent and essential care, minors, maternity, serious disease and public health; strengthen identity, residence, income and duplicate-entitlement checks; regulate planned non-urgent or costly care through waits or prior approval where medically possible, with annual reporting.
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Coordinate maternity, maternal and infant protection, paediatrics, mental health and parenting from pregnancy to age two, with screening, prevention, useful home visits, postpartum care and an identifiable contact nationwide.
Housing and planning 7 positions
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Mobilise public land and renovation and build for natural risks; potentially regulate short lets, second homes and land withholding in severe pressure areas, provide legal teams for shared ownership and titles, and offer rehousing and fair compensation for coastal relocation.
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Plan construction, renovation and return of vacant homes to use through public land and simpler procedures, without lowering safety or environmental standards or concentrating poverty.
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Allocate social housing through transparent income and family criteria; improve transfers and under-occupation monitoring, renovation, maintenance, residential safety and services.
Immigration, asylum and nationality 16 positions
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Seek a full Schengen exemption or revision to restore permanent border controls; if refused, include this requirement in the overall EU choice while retaining useful cooperation.
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Establish one border-accountability chain linking police, customs, gendarmerie, prefects, ports, airports, intelligence and military as needed, with traceable exchanges under French law and nationally controlled technology.
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Make French proficiency an effective integration and naturalisation requirement, backed by accessible intensive assessed state-guaranteed training, with national standards, quality controls and published results.
International affairs and Europe 42 positions
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Leave NATO’s integrated command and pursue independent non-aligned diplomacy.
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Propose symbolic sharing of France’s permanent Security Council seat with Francophone countries; wording conflicts with or requires clarification against the charter refusing seat/veto sharing.
Note: Undated overview; it may differ from the August charter.
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Specify powers, bodies, oversight, costs, dispute resolution and revision or exit arrangements in every new lasting cooperation agreement.
Justice and security 22 positions
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Create permanent operational headquarters in Mayotte, Guiana and the Caribbean against illegal immigration, drug trafficking, illegal fishing and other trafficking; follow interceptions with financial investigations and seizures, negotiate readmission and joint controls with neighbours and treat rescued people humanely.
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Accelerate family-court decisions and enforcement and train teams in domestic violence and coercive control; use mediation only when free and safe, excluding violence, threats or coercion.
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Train professionals and promptly assess reports of abuse, incest, exploitation and bullying; provide continuous support and supervise convicted offenders with enforced contact bans, respecting innocence and defence rights.
Natural areas, water and territories 3 positions
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Complete maritime delimitation and pursue continental-shelf extensions; programme seabed, biodiversity and resource mapping, a national portal and documented presence in isolated areas including the Scattered Islands, southern territories and Clipperton.
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Decide on marine and deep-seabed development after contested scientific expertise, environmental assessment and territorial consultation, with French value chains and benefit sharing; use temporary revocable licences and public stakes when strategic, without blanket bans or rushed exploitation.
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Maintain stations, airstrips, logistics and science in southern and Antarctic territories, the Scattered Islands and Clipperton; uphold the Antarctic Treaty and peaceful research with regular missions producing lasting maintenance, knowledge or oversight.
Rights and freedoms 13 positions
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Base nationhood on common citizenship and welcome naturalised citizens on equal civic terms with the associated duties.
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Guarantee equal voting rights and exclude political representation based on ancestry, religion or community.
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Guarantee electoral registration, accessible polling places and effective voting in mainland France, overseas and abroad, with accurate rolls and honest procedures.
Science, digital and communications 30 positions
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Pursue public strategic-research policy for technological independence and infrastructure modernisation.
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Host and administer command, identity, security and justice data under French control; provide independent systems, fallback procedures and digital-continuity exercises.
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Exceed 3% of GDP in R&D within five years without accounting reclassification; strengthen basic research, equipment, technology and industrialisation with stable core funding and technical staff.
Social protection 48 positions
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Define each social policy by its cause, expected outcome, support and feasible route out of persistent poverty.
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Combine employment, protection for people unable to work and shared access to progress.
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Assess reforms through disposable income and access to housing, transport, childcare, healthcare, training and a human contact; exclude savings that merely shift costs.
State, institutions and administration 113 positions
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Reserve national referendums to the head of state and introduce local citizen-initiated referendums.
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Deconcentrate administration without political decentralisation, reinforce unity against regionalism and reject intermediary bodies described as obstructive.
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Limit pooling of sovereign powers to a defined purpose, with review, French oversight and a route to reclaim national authority.
Transport 5 positions
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Plan ports, rail freight, waterways, roads, grids and water according to sovereignty, decarbonisation and territorial balance; expand rail and waterways where volumes justify them and retain roads where indispensable.
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Create a territorial-continuity public service: cap resident fares by distance and income for a defined but unquantified number of essential trips, with stronger rights for study, work, emergencies, culture, sport and public duties; contract minimum frequency and capacity between islands and isolated areas.
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Modernise quays, dredging, access, cranes, cold storage, fuel and digital systems at overseas ports including Pointe-à-Pitre, Fort-de-France, Dégrad-des-Cannes, Port-Réunion, Longoni, Saint-Pierre, Nouméa and Papeete; condition investment on traffic, jobs and regional coastal shipping.
Work and employment 33 positions
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Recognise qualifications, difficult working conditions and knowledge transfer in careers; let experienced workers become mentors without pay loss, facilitate short certifications and experience recognition, and provide retraining before site closures.
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Make French versions of duties, pay, evaluations, safety and procedures authoritative for employees in France except contracts intended for abroad; require French job titles, allow foreign-language requirements only where needed and prohibit disadvantage for asserting French-language rights.
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Create a voluntary Entreprise en français label for training, terminology and tools beyond legal duties; allow it as a procurement factor where the contract has a language-related purpose.
In the polls
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Agenda
Full agenda ›Announced upcoming appearances
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Sources read
20 pages and documents read, on 1 site.
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- davidsaforcada.fr/mon-programme
- davidsaforcada.fr/mon-programme/les-chartes-nationales
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