Jean-Luc Mélenchon is, for now, the only candidate in the 2027 presidential election to have published his entire platform. Put on sale the day before in bookstores at a price of 4.90 euros, the text is the product of work carried out for more than ten years by France Unbowed and regularly updated.
The speech was preceded by a film on the main themes of the platform. Sequences showed leading figures of France Unbowed setting out their solutions on the environment, agriculture, the economy, education, housing and aging.
Usually quick to dismiss opinion polls, the Unbowed feel emboldened this autumn, marked by the high-school student movement and social crises. They are more convinced than ever that this fourth candidacy will be the one.
Whether in 2012, in 2017 or in 2022, the France Unbowed candidate had never been placed so high in voting intentions measured a little less than six months before a presidential election. He does not want to believe the polls that show him losing. Among the pledges announced are a minimum wage of 1,700 euros, retirement at 60 and an exit from nuclear power. Opponents of the Unbowed consider these measures impossible to finance.
Asked during the week by France 24, through their entourages, about the date on which they would do the same, none of the other contenders for the Élysée was in a position to answer.
The radical-left party once again displayed its activist strength. It shows determination and the certainty of being present on May 2, 2027, in the second round of the presidential election.
On Saturday, November 7, Jean-Luc Mélenchon gathered about 20,000 people, according to the organizers, at the Bourget exhibition center, north of Paris. The leader of France Unbowed (LFI) held a rally there focused on the presentation of his platform. The candidate, aged 75, set out several points of his project and reaffirmed that of a"new France."The aim of the day was above all to present the LFI platform.