2027 presidential election
Gabriel Attal
Renaissance
Declared candidacyDeclared candidacy; the campaign biography dates the Mur-de-Barrez announcement to 22 May 2026.
Sources: attalpresident.fr ↗ · attalpresident.fr ↗ · status checked on 29 October 2026 · Report an error
Photo: Ismail Aissoub, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons, 3 March 2025
In brief
- MP for Hauts-de-Seine’s tenth constituency and president of the Ensemble pour la République group; the current profile places him on the Cultural Affairs and Education Committee.
- Renaissance identifies him as party secretary-general.
- His campaign biography describes studies in law and political science, several government posts and becoming prime minister in January 2024. (according to the campaign)
- The government website dates his appointment as prime minister to 9 January 2024 and his tenure from January to September 2024. It records earlier roles as government spokesperson, public accounts minister, and education and youth minister.
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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Base retirement on contribution duration rather than a single age threshold.
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
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Make two thirds of savings in social spending, including sick leave, unemployment and pensions.
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Replace the pension model with a universal system without a statutory retirement age, including funded savings for everyone and designed not to run deficits.
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Save €20 billion on taking office and €150 billion over five years, two-thirds in social spending through sick-leave, unemployment and pension reforms.
Other measures
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Share the effort according to means and negotiate reforms, especially pensions, with social partners while allowing employer–union negotiations autonomy.
By topic
Agriculture and fisheries Classification in progress
Classification in progress — texts collected for this profile have been read but are not yet sorted by topic: we cannot yet conclude that this topic is absent.
Business, banking and consumers 3 positions
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Further integrate banking and capital markets through a common regulator and European savings product.
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Provide a €1,000 investment at each birth and develop funded savings directed towards European businesses.
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Use public orders, equity stakes and technology-transfer requirements to develop strategic companies.
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Culture Classification in progress
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Defence 1 position
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Strengthen military capabilities, reserves and defence industry, continue Ukraine aid and develop deterrence doctrine.
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Economy, budget and taxes 10 positions
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Diversify and reshore supplies of medicines, semiconductors and critical minerals.
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Set a ten-year path to budget balance, make all administrations accountable and prioritise education, ecology and defence.
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Decarbonise industry.
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Education 5 positions
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Restore the Choc des savoirs reforms, target primary classes below twenty pupils and a leading PISA position within ten years.
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Improve teacher and disability-assistant pay and adapt school schedules to mental-health needs.
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Shorten some initial study pathways and promote technical and practical training.
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Energy 1 position
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Launch an electrification programme and accelerate the proposed fourteen EPR2 reactors.
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Environment 2 positions
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Cut emissions by 5% annually until 2030 and pursue independence from fossil fuels.
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Create European ecological planning and finance adaptation and the circular economy through common debt.
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Foreign trade 2 positions
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Tax subsidised Chinese steel, electric-vehicle and solar imports and scrutinise strategic investment.
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Extend a member state's public-procurement ban on a subsidised company across the EU.
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Health Classification in progress
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Housing and planning 1 position
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Scale up home renovation and make electrification affordable.
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Immigration, asylum and nationality 2 positions
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Reduce immigration, prioritise employment-based entry and restrict family reunification.
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Assess admission using employment, housing, French-language and shared-values criteria.
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International affairs and Europe 1 position
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Build a United States of Europe with willing countries, prepare a treaty and institutions within three years, then hold a pan-European referendum.
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Justice and security Classification in progress
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Natural areas, water and territories Classification in progress
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Rights and freedoms Classification in progress
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Science, digital and communications 6 positions
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Ban access to social networks for under-15s.
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Strengthen cyber preparedness and critical-infrastructure protection.
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Make joint European investments in AI, quantum computing and clean technology.
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Social protection 2 positions
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Create a childcare savings account modelled on Livret A and train 200,000 early-childhood professionals by 2030.
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Base retirement on contribution duration rather than a single age threshold.
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State, institutions and administration 2 positions
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Remove 100,000 civil-service posts through compensated voluntary departures, protecting education, armed forces, justice and interior ministries.
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Make ministers' continuation in office conditional on meeting savings targets.
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Transport Classification in progress
Classification in progress — texts collected for this profile have been read but are not yet sorted by topic: we cannot yet conclude that this topic is absent.
Work and employment 5 positions
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Rewrite labour law around core principles and give industry and company bargaining a larger role.
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Reduce employee social contributions to increase take-home pay.
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Remove the default annual cap of 220 overtime hours.
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In the polls
All polls ›Tested in 32 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
- 4% First-round presidential voting intention (« L’intention de vote au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle »)
- 5% 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 »)
- 13% 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% 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 »)
- 4% 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 »)
- 5% 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 »)
Second round — the latest head-to-heads
- 42% Second-round scenario: Gabriel Attal against Marine Le Pen (« L’intention de vote au second tour de l’élection présidentielle - hypothèse G. Attal vs. M. Le Pen »)
- 45% Scenario 1: Gabriel Attal against Marine Le Pen (« Hypothèse 1 : Gabriel Attal contre Marine Le Pen »)
- 43% Second-round scenario — question code Q11: Gabriel Attal against Marine Le Pen (« Q11 »)
- 46% Second-round scenario with Gabriel Attal and Marine Le Pen (« L’intention de vote au second tour de l’élection présidentielle - hypothèse G. Attal et M. Le Pen »)
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
16 pages and documents read, on 2 sites.
See the list
- attalpresident.fr/actualites/gabriel-attal-france-info-ecouter-la-jeunesse
- attalpresident.fr/actualites/gabriel-attal-lance-une-grande-consultation-pacte-pour-la-jeunesse
- attalpresident.fr/actualites/gabriel-attal-lettre-aux-francais-plan-finances-publiques
- attalpresident.fr/actualites/gabriel-attal-presente-ses-mesures-pour-la-jeunesse-et-l-avenir-de-la-france
- attalpresident.fr/actualites/gabriel-attal-responsabilite-generation-etats-unis-europe
- attalpresident.fr/actualites/gabriel-attal-retablir-ordre-mettre-fin-impunite
- attalpresident.fr/actualites/gabriel-attal-retablir-ordre-pacte-avenir-jeunesse
- attalpresident.fr/actualites/gabriel-attal-rtl-retablir-ordre-jeunesse-avenir-france
- attalpresident.fr/actualites/gabriel-attal-vision-economique-liberer-innover-independance-france
- attalpresident.fr/programme/dette-de-letat
- attalpresident.fr/programme/dette-ecologique
- attalpresident.fr/programme/education
- attalpresident.fr/programme/frontieres
- attalpresident.fr/programme/intelligence-artificielle
- attalpresident.fr/programme/travail-salaires
- doc.parti.re/2026/Lettre-finances-publiques.pdf
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