2027 presidential election
Juan Branco
Les Ruches (mouvement se disant sans parti)
Declared candidacyThe Les Ruches campaign reports a 2027 presidential candidacy announcement on 19 December 2025.
Source: ruches.org ↗ · status checked on 29 October 2026 · Report an error
Photo: UPOP Marseille, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons, 12 September 2024
In brief
- An ENS newsletter from January 2016 identifies Juan Branco Lopez, class of 2009, and confirms a law doctorate awarded in November 2014 and an Institut Varenne prize.
- His campaign biography describes him as a lawyer and writer, author of Crépuscule; it states that he took the Paris bar oath in 2017. (according to the campaign)
- He describes visits to Yale in 2013–2014 and a Senior Research Fellow post at the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg from 2015. (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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Pension levels
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Recalculate pensions using life expectancy, career and wealth with declining coverage protecting low incomes, separate the solidarity component and end the ten-per-cent tax allowance.
Funding and system
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Merge Social Security, pension and dependency funds; replace contributions with differentiated intra-EU VAT and public funding and create a universal minimum income varying with age, disability and dependants, with transferable rights for homemakers.
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Check senior working hours, align territorial and nonteaching university hours, remove public supplemental insurance and merge pensions with aligned rates and bonus-free pay, and prohibit certain combinations of employment and local executive allowances.
Other measures
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By topic
Agriculture and fisheries 13 positions
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Constitutionally recognise rights of living beings, rebuild agricultural policy outside the European framework by ending regional management of its second pillar and adopt aid inspired by seven Swiss criteria, capped and declining with size while prioritising biodiversity.
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Set floor and minimum import prices, restructure debts with a moratorium, align farm social protection, guarantee minimum income outside industrial farming and create public climate insurance with prompt compensation declining by size.
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Exempt qualifying local food products from tax, calculate aid per worker, provide a public declaration service, turn cooperatives into shared state services and penalise forced below-cost sales.
Business, banking and consumers 6 positions
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Create overseas free zones, strengthen consumer and competition enforcement under labour oversight, ban certain dominant foreign platforms in favour of French alternatives and limit franchises while easing small drinks licences.
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Standardise invoices below five thousand euros, require thirty-day payment and automatic penalties for large buyers, guarantee SME advances through Caisse des dépôts, share craft-business administration and curb purchasing-centre power.
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Guarantee free basic banking, reform MiFID II, build a SWIFT alternative compatible with CIPS and SPFS, tax financial transactions, publish beneficial ownership and separate deposit and investment banking.
Culture 6 positions
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Put cooperative media ownership to referendum, finance newsrooms through internet-provider levies and citizen tax allocation, publish ownership, remove press subsidies, journalists' tax advantage and school funding and penalise interference and conflicts of interest.
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Bring intermittent and temporary work arrangements together, cap pay, restrict large productions' use of the scheme and apply territorial coefficients.
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Revise broadcast licences, impose cultural quotas on foreign operators, make the media regulator citizen-based and extend it to print, reopen frequencies, require video-on-demand authorisation and reform film-release windows.
Defence 9 positions
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Put a universal service to a vote: twelve military months or eighteen months including six military months for the civilian route, deferrable to age 22 and feeding mandatory reserves.
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Support universal service with a Swiss-style reserve, redirect defence industry, create a public armaments group controlling major manufacturers' boards and nationalise MBDA.
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Develop three hundred new tanks, one hundred Tiger III helicopters, a sovereign carrier catapult, electric non-nuclear submarines and twenty first-rank frigates; leave Eurocorvette and prioritise Gowind.
Economy, budget and taxes 18 positions
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Rapidly impose exchange controls through the Treasury, transferring powers to the deputy if the director refuses cooperation.
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Elect the Bank of France governor, restore direct Treasury financing, create five-year budgeting with annual implementation and quarterly coordination, have the defender oversee compatibility and transfer nonjudicial audit functions to the Planning Commission.
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Issue citizen investment bonds, merge BPI and Caisse des dépôts into sectoral public banks, control capital and exchange flows with asset conversion and raise the inflation target to deflate bubbles.
Education 14 positions
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Make university free for French residents, integrate elite schools and preparatory classes with social quotas, limit provision to 1500 programmes, organise disciplinary degrees with a national nondisciplinary exit exam and expand transfer routes.
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Combine local and national recruitment, replace the university council with an inspectorate half composed of nonacademics, open institutions year-round, raise budgets thirty per cent while ending the research tax credit and repeal the named autonomy reforms.
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Absorb the Sciences Po foundation into universities, place political-studies institutes under common governance and abolish journalism schools.
Energy 3 positions
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Adopt a five-year industrial energy plan through organic legislation or referendum, compensate new household costs, end imported fossil dependence, merge planning bodies, nationalise retail, leave the European electricity market and introduce progressive tariffs and an essential allowance.
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Build fourteen EPR2 reactors and an integrated sodium fast-reactor industry, abandon private small reactors in favour of advanced reactors and provide near-surface waste storage.
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Condition renewable aid on local manufacture, limit solar to already developed land, preserve public hydroelectricity, develop storage and electrification, resume Guyana oil exploration and put domestic production to referendum.
Environment 2 positions
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Strictly apply the zero-land-take target with brownfield restoration, forbid buildable rezoning after fires, abolish energy-saving certificates, introduce citizen oversight of public-building access and create asset-resolution structures for highly polluting industries.
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Strengthen environmental inspectors and fines up to five hundred thousand euros, limit public-space advertising, trace all supply origins within three years, ban certain plastic containers and introduce deposits, abolish low-emission zones and repeal Energy Code article R241-26.
Foreign trade 2 positions
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Introduce social, health and ecological tariffs, a tax linked to coal consumed in origin countries, ban imports deemed unnecessary, surtax low-price textile chains and create a border distance tax.
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Use tariffs to pursue social, commercial and environmental goals.
Health 12 positions
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Create departmental centres and a public GP corps, regulate practice location and require ten years in underserved areas; end activity-based payment, have doctors lead hospitals and reduce administration following audit.
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Cap extra charges and put abolition to referendum, fund student independence in exchange for service, absorb supplemental insurers into Social Security and replace copayments with an annual ceiling based on income and wealth; ban hospitals from providing consulting or other services, with scope requiring clarification.
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Reform pricing and prescribing, reassess medicine approvals against studies, strengthen health inspection, create a public pharmaceutical industry with university research and compulsory equity stakes, reshore production and end advertising and commercial drug promotion.
Housing and planning 4 positions
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Abolish personal housing benefits and the named bodies within an antispeculation policy, remove the listed ASFL, MASSE and AIP arrangements and criminalise corruption in public housing providers.
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Suspend insulation aid and redirect it to electric heating and comprehensive renovation, universally guarantee rent, tax repeated resales, repeal ELAN, merge renovation and housing bodies, remove the named development zones and strengthen architectural, energy and accessibility requirements.
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Bring universities and courts back to centres, allocate public housing by income and wealth with guaranteed deadlines, tax checks and periodic rent reviews, limit leases to five years renewable once and declare and penalise vacancies exceeding twelve months.
Immigration, asylum and nationality 2 positions
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Create a citizen commission for asylum for freedom fighters and stronger legal protection for whistleblowers.
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Condition regularisation on integration and national service, regulate family reunion and consular asylum, attract qualifications, shorten detention and administrative delays, favour community service, end arrival tribunals and distinguish full individual asylum from renewable conditional geographic protection.
International affairs and Europe 9 positions
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Review diplomatic accreditation, expel foreign services deemed hostile and strengthen counterintelligence.
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Replace the International Organisation of La Francophonie with a Commonwealth-inspired union and join BRICS while leading it.
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Create a ministry for French citizens abroad incorporating development aid, favour bilateral agreements conditional on migration, trade and antidrug cooperation, review cooperation with former colonies starting with Haiti and invest in francophone education.
Justice and security 38 positions
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Use plenary constitutional review and constitutionalise requisition and nationalisation for national interests, plus juries and election and recall of judges.
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Offer drug-policy alternatives: decriminalised use with a licensed public monopoly, or five-year exceptional justice with up to 24 months' administrative detention of suspects and expanded investigation powers.
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Put three sex-trade options to a vote: regulated legalisation with enhanced protection below age 21; penalties for all actors including clients and people selling sex; or the status quo.
Natural areas, water and territories 6 positions
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Replace intermunicipal bodies with elected and randomly selected assemblies; use random selection, mixed-list voting and no parity rule in small municipalities without competing lists; retain national precedence for overriding interests subject to local referendum oversight.
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Put Paris under national supervision for three years for planning, finances, government relocation and proportional elections including inner suburbs.
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Relocate administrative, judicial, prison and rail services to administrative-town centres.
Rights and freedoms 1 position
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Submit a choice between retaining secularism law and adopting a concordat system.
Science, digital and communications 11 positions
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Increase research and development by thirty per cent, double CNRS, abolish the research tax credit, apply the Harnack principle, open public university workshops and expropriate CMA-CGM while recovering MSC port assets.
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Guarantee fundamental digital rights, make social-platform algorithms transparent, share profits from personal-data use with their producers and require open-source administration software.
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Expropriate and publicly acquire telecommunications, create digital administrative corps and leadership, maintain both physical and digital public-service access and build public software capacity across the full stack.
Social protection 14 positions
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Merge Social Security, pension and dependency funds; replace contributions with differentiated intra-EU VAT and public funding and create a universal minimum income varying with age, disability and dependants, with transferable rights for homemakers.
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Make RSA unconditional and available from eighteen outside the parental tax household, automate minimum benefits and accelerate payments.
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Municipalise the listed holiday and youth-leader training arrangements, abolish the named national employee social-activity structures and create randomly selected citizen committees for hardship assistance.
State, institutions and administration 36 positions
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Attach inspectorates, oversight bodies and government services to the defender; require its consent for pardons and amnesties, advice on appointments and regulations and automatic referral after individual ministerial instructions.
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Define referendum rules after consultation; require two-thirds support for recall or bundled votes at each third of a term, tied to a specific act.
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Accelerate interpretative or repealing laws addressing constitutional or treaty incompatibility.
Transport 2 positions
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Renovate police premises for staff and detainee dignity, restrict mobile speed cameras to crash-based justification, remove limits on accident-free stretches and narrow vehicle inspections to essential checks.
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Restore the rail monopoly with investment and electrification of four thousand kilometres, finance freight and coastal shipping through land-linked securities, expropriate motorways, create citizen transport credit and strengthen public transport and rail passes.
Work and employment 7 positions
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Require employee board representation, give the state and employees pre-emption rights on sales or closures and support employee cooperative takeovers and lower cooperative taxation.
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Temporarily make work and housing rights enforceable, require union membership while ending public funding and works councils' social and cultural functions, and organise liberal professions with citizens occupying half of disciplinary bodies.
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Merge public employment and training networks, remove the specified administrative or commercial training and absorb regional labour services into the general labour directorate.
In the polls
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Agenda
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Sources read
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Source Civique, « Juan Branco », https://sourcecivique.fr/en/candidates/juan-branco/, accessed [date] (version of 1 November 2026).
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