Thirty-five people want to be the next president of France. What could possibly go wrong?
Unless the mainstream gets its act together, next year’s election looks likely to hand the keys of the Élysée to the far right • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here “The real risk,” France’s prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, reportedly said last month, “is that this tangle of ambitions reflects such a lack of engagement with reality on the part of all these candidates that voters find the whole thing grotesque.” He has a point. By this time next year, France will have
Conseil constitutionnel
Édouard Philippe
Élysée Palace
Emmanuel Macron
Éric Zemmour
France
Gérald Darmanin
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jordan Bardella
La France insoumise
Les Républicains
Marine Le Pen
Marine Tondelier
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
Parti socialiste
Raphaël Glucksmann
Rassemblement National
Sébastien Lecornu
Évolution chronologique
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Trente-cinq candidats déclarés ou pressentis pour la présidentielle française : un record de fragmentation
À un an du scrutin, trente-cinq personnalités briguent déjà l’Élysée, symptôme d’une fragmentation politique inédite qui pourrait favoriser l’extrême droite.