Paris (AFP)
At least thirty presidential candidates in 2022, political heavyweights or "ordinary citizens", have already declared themselves, but the final list, which should be reduced by then, will not be known until spring.
To be able to stand in the first round, these candidates must indeed obtain the nomination of their party for those who subscribe to this scheme, and the support of 500 elected officials from 30 different departments and communities.
These sponsorships of elected officials must then be validated by the Constitutional Council.
- Undeclared candidates
They are not yet officially in the race, but are already talking about them a lot:
- Outgoing President Emmanuel Macron has still not announced his intention to run for a second term.
He prances ahead of the polls.
- The polemicist Eric Zemmour has made a thunderous burst into the countryside since the start of the school year.
He maintains doubts about his candidacy.
A poll placed him this week in the second round.
- On the left, the seven companions
The main candidates declared for the presidential election Jonathan WALTER AFP
On the left, many of them have already started the race, but none of them has yet managed to take off:
- EELV MEP Yannick Jadot won the Greens primary at the end of September, the only party that has chosen this system to nominate its candidate.
- For rebellious France (LFI), the suspense has been lifted for almost a year: Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be its candidate.
- The PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced her candidacy at the beginning of September, but the mayor of Le Mans Stéphane Le Foll maintains his candidacy for the nomination of the PS for the presidential election.
- The former socialist minister Arnaud Montebourg has chosen to go outside the party.
- The PC is launching its own candidate, National Secretary Fabien Roussel, without supporting the LFI candidate as in the last two presidential elections.
- Philippe Poutou, municipal councilor for the New Anti-capitalist and trade union party.
- Lutte Ouvrière spokesperson Nathalie Arthaud.
- On the right, a congress to choose
The Republicans party still does not have a candidate for the Elysee.
Activists will choose him at a convention on December 4.
The deadline for submitting candidatures is October 13, but many have already announced their candidacy either to Congress or directly to the presidential election.
- The president of Hauts-de France (ex-LR) Xavier Bertrand launched himself in the race for the Elysée this spring.
He still has not announced whether or not he will submit to the LR congress.
- The ex-LR president of Ile-de-France Valérie Pécresse chose to submit to the December congress, as did the former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, LR deputy Eric Ciotti and LR mayor of La Garenne -Doves Philippe Juvin.
- The president of Debout France Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, right-wing sovereignist and ex-ally of Marine Le Pen, launched his campaign on Sunday.
- Far right
- The president of RN Marine Le Pen has officially been a candidate for over a year.
In most polls, she faces Emmanuel Macron in the second round as in 2017.
- A multitude of "small candidates" -
As in each election, many candidates from more modest training, figures of "yellow vests" or even complete strangers to the general public, intend to present themselves.
Among them:
- President of the Patriots Florian Philippot
- Anasse Kazib, Sud-Rail trade unionist and candidate of the CCR (Revolutionary Communist Current) -Permanent Revolution, a former branch of the NPA
- The deputy Jean Lassalle, at the head of the "Resistons" movement
- The president of the Republican Popular Union (UPR) François Asselineau
- The president of "VIA, the way of the people" Jean-Frédéric Poisson, who said he was ready to withdraw in favor of Eric Zemmour
- Hélène Thouy for the Animalist Party
- The "yellow vest" Eric Drouet
- The "yellow vest" Jacline Mouraud with her Les Emergents party
- Teacher Clara Egger for the Hope RIC 2022 movement
- Antoine Martinez, ex-general of the Air Force, president of Volontaires pour la France and signatory in the spring of a controversial military forum in Valeurs Actuelles
- Alexandre Langlois, former police officer and general secretary of the Vigi union, with his Refondation party
- Antoine Waechter, ex-candidate of the Greens for the presidential election of 1988.
- Georges Kuzmanovic, sovereignist, ex-LFI.
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