2027 presidential election
François Ruffin
Debout!
Declared candidacyDeclared candidacy on his personal site and an active 2027 campaign on Nous Président.
Sources: francoisruffin.fr ↗ · nouspresident.fr ↗ · status checked on 29 October 2026 · Report an error
Photo: Thinkerview, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons, 6 October 2022
In brief
- MP for Somme’s first constituency, member of the Écologiste et Social group and the Economic Affairs Committee.
- The Assembly lists reporter as his profession; Debout’s website identifies him as the movement’s president.
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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Programme director Sophie Taillé-Polian identifies retirement at sixty among the New Popular Front commitments to continue.
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Replace the individual hardship-account approach with one pension quarter automatically added for every four contribution quarters in a strenuous occupation.
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Extend essential-worker status to manual and other employees in ecological reconstruction, including training and housing priority and extra pension quarters for strenuous work.
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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Create legal volunteer status with partial social protection, training rights and leave, and recognition in careers and pension quarters.
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Improve farm social status, including pensions, leave and accident protection, aiming for rights comparable to other workers; no scale is proposed here.
By topic
Agriculture and fisheries 42 positions
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Prioritise feeding France's sixty-seven million people, with exports serving any surplus.
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Support grass-based livestock, mixed farming and human-scale farms with hedges and wooded ranges as part of moving away from landless industrial livestock production.
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Favour land access for those who work it rather than farm enlargement.
Business, banking and consumers 8 positions
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Set an ambition for sixty-seven million French people to take holidays rather than measuring tourism success only through foreign arrivals.
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Cover half the cost of sports licences for low-income families beyond Pass'Sport support.
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Automatically guarantee every French child at least one funded group holiday during compulsory schooling, without a family application.
Culture 11 positions
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Train and better pay activity leaders and make cultural-venue prices accessible; no scale is supplied.
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Create a national arts-and-crafts route and a portal listing workshops, markets and local skills.
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Require major publicly funded cultural institutions to allocate one quarter of their touring-programme budget, not their total budget, to regional tours reaching under-resourced venues.
Defence 2 positions
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In defence and security, identify submarines, frigates, combat aircraft, propellants, shells, drones, tankers, jammers, radar, satellites, water bombers and military or firefighting trucks as examples.
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Increase public stakes in defence companies receiving the most public orders to oversee funds and target research and development.
Economy, budget and taxes 57 positions
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Require use of oil-production capacity still present in France as part of reshoring; implementation details are unspecified.
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Protect strategic firms against foreign interference, using nationalisation if necessary.
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Systematically produce and publish a strategic study before proposed foreign acquisitions of strategic French firms or divisions.
Education 64 positions
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Teach taste and food origins from school onwards.
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Rebalance higher education and public jobs geographically, particularly through well-supported local courses in medium-sized towns to reduce metropolitan housing pressure.
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Reduce what the cahier describes as excessive private work-study provision and some metropolitan undergraduate provision, offset by local courses; no firm reduction quota is set.
Energy 18 positions
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Limit domestic biomass use to about 250–300 TWh annually to protect farming, forest carbon sinks and ecosystems, with nuclear and renewable electricity the main fossil-fuel substitute.
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Target roughly 1,050 TWh of energy needs in 2050, a reduction of about one third; the scenario assigns roughly 40% savings to buildings and 60% to transport, without these effects being independently verified.
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Gradually leave the electricity market, end competition in retail supply and set public prices according to actual production costs.
Environment 21 positions
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Organise ecological reconstruction through democratic planning, a programming law and sustained staffing and funding; the cahier presents directions and examples rather than an exhaustive environmental programme.
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Extend local democracy to soil and air; hold air-quality assemblies in every metropolitan authority with elected representatives, citizens, associations and businesses to shape measures including low-emission zones.
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Put a ban on advertising the most polluting products, including combustion-engine cars and airline tickets, to a referendum.
Foreign trade 10 positions
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The programme director advocates leaving free-trade agreements with countries not meeting the advocated social and environmental standards.
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Protect agriculture through import quotas and tariffs within an exception to free-trade rules; products and rates are not specified in this editorial.
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Ban agricultural imports priced below national floors.
Health 8 positions
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Identify amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, methotrexate, paracetamol, morphine, lithium, sertraline, fluoxetine, bromazepam, Gardasil, MRI equipment, masks and protective gowns as health-sector examples.
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Create a public medicines organisation to rapidly produce essential off-patent drugs in France, governed by the state, local authorities, healthcare professionals and patients.
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Make the medicines organisation a strategic investor and partner for innovative French biotech firms, with targeted majority stakes and guaranteed public returns from research.
Housing and planning 75 positions
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Develop a new five-year plan with associations and professionals making lasting housing an unconditional right and a prerequisite for reintegration.
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Strengthen funding, governance and visibility of social residences serving low-paid workers, young adults and disabled people, among others.
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Provide specific measures against unfit housing in overseas territories, particularly French Guiana and Mayotte; detailed measures remain undefined.
Immigration, asylum and nationality —
Nothing found in the sources read — no passage identified on this subject in the sources reviewed; other sources may exist.
International affairs and Europe 2 positions
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Consider suspending interconnection projects and limiting low-cost electricity exports as negotiating pressure within Europe while remaining a supply-security partner against blackout risk.
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Seek stricter application of European imbalance rules so states with large surpluses stimulate domestic demand.
Justice and security 23 positions
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End the president's complete criminal and civil immunity during the term of office.
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Abolish the ministerial Court of Justice and privileged jurisdiction, replacing them with a procedure preserving fair trials and screening abusive complaints.
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Remove government appointment of prosecutors and interference in their individual careers while retaining ministerial responsibility for general criminal-policy priorities.
Natural areas, water and territories 22 positions
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Expand long-term opportunities to study, train and work in overseas territories for people wishing to remain there.
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Protect water and strengthen transparent, democratic allocation between uses.
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Reduce exposure through land-use and urban planning, including waterways, flood zones, homes on clay soils, coasts and vulnerable forests.
Rights and freedoms —
Nothing found in the sources read — no passage identified on this subject in the sources reviewed; other sources may exist.
Science, digital and communications 24 positions
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Regulate data centres through local heat recovery and a democratically determined electricity-consumption ceiling.
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Include sovereign cloud, data mining, AI models, cyberdefence, search engines, semiconductors and submarine cables among priority digital examples.
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Create a digital-commons organisation to select and oversee priority open-source components with public, private and community actors, driven by public IT procurement.
Social protection 10 positions
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Programme director Sophie Taillé-Polian identifies retirement at sixty among the New Popular Front commitments to continue.
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Replace the individual hardship-account approach with one pension quarter automatically added for every four contribution quarters in a strenuous occupation.
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Merge the named holiday-assistance schemes into one counter and automatically notify eligible families of entitlements.
State, institutions and administration 50 positions
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The programme director announces more resources and safeguards for courts, media, associations and whistleblowers; detailed instruments are not supplied in this conclusion.
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Plan constitutional reform strengthening the legislature and give Parliament more staffing, technical resources and expertise for scrutiny, evaluation and inquiries; details are announced for future cahiers.
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Co-design public policies more with local elected officials and community actors, according to the programme director's conclusion.
Transport 14 positions
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Create a twenty-nine-euro ticket providing unlimited national regional-rail access from July first through August thirty-first; the text does not state a monthly charge.
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Cap air fares between mainland France and overseas territories in both directions; no numerical ceiling is supplied.
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End motorway concessions and introduce public pricing to reduce tolls.
Work and employment 52 positions
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Share decisions about work organisation with employees and unions, supported by law, beyond sharing income alone.
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Make employers bear more of the social cost of harmful working conditions; the cahier does not quantify the mechanism.
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In her conclusion, programme director Sophie Taillé-Polian supports continuity with the New Popular Front, including a 1600-euro minimum wage; this paragraph specifies neither payment period nor net or gross basis.
In the polls
All polls ›Tested in 9 polls whose results are shown here. A score depends on the scenario: the list of candidates put to respondents.
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
- 1.5% 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 »)
- 2% First-round scenario with François Ruffin and Natacha Polony running (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle – hypothèse F. Ruffin et N. Polony candidats »)
- 3% First-round scenario — question code Q6 (« Q6 »)
- 2% First-round scenario with François Ruffin, Dominique de Villepin and David Lisnard running (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle – F. Ruffin, D. de Villepin et D. Lisnard candidats »)
- 3% First-round scenario with François Ruffin, Dominique de Villepin and David Lisnard running (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle – F. Ruffin, D. de Villepin et D. Lisnard candidats »)
- 6% First-round scenario — question code Q6 (« Q6 »)
Agenda
Full agenda ›Announced upcoming appearances
No appearance announced by name in the agendas read.
Their campaign's or party's agenda is not yet collected.
Sources read
11 pages and documents read, on 1 site.
See the list
- nouspresident.fr/education-une-ecole-de-tous-les-savoirs/
- nouspresident.fr/face-a-la-crise-du-logement-faire-sauter-le-verrou/
- nouspresident.fr/plan-data-centers/
- nouspresident.fr/plan-de-redressement/
- nouspresident.fr/plan-urgence-climat/
- nouspresident.fr/pour-proteger-notre-industrie-relocaliser-100-produits-strategiques/
- nouspresident.fr/pour-une-exception-agriculturelle-francaise/
- nouspresident.fr/separation-argent-etat/
- nouspresident.fr/statut-travailleurs-essentiels/
- nouspresident.fr/temps-loisirs/
- nouspresident.fr/travaillisme-ecologique/
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Source Civique, « François Ruffin », https://sourcecivique.fr/en/candidates/francois-ruffin/, accessed [date] (version of 1 November 2026).
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