Natacha Polony : présidentielle 2027

Sans étiquette · Founder of the movement Nous sommes la France, director of the magazine L'Audace!

Statut : Declared. Candidacy announced on 14 October 2026 on France Inter. She still needs to gather the 500 sponsorships from elected officials.

Born in Paris, holder of the agrégation in modern literature, Natacha Polony was a journalist and columnist, then editor-in-chief of Marianne from 2018 to 2024. She was active in Jean-Pierre Chevènement's Mouvement des citoyens in the early 2000s and claims to follow social Gaullism.

Natacha Polony: ten key proposals

  1. Raise wages by 20 to 30%. (Pouvoir d'achat)
  2. Declare a “state of production emergency.” (Métaux critiques et industrie)
  3. Give priority to French production in public procurement. (Métaux critiques et industrie)
  4. Scrap aid to companies not conditional on production on national soil. (Emploi)
  5. Renationalize EDF, keep hydroelectric dams public and support nuclear power. (Énergie)
  6. Introduce a floating fuel tax that varies with prices. (Pouvoir d'achat)
  7. Impose our environmental standards on imported products through mirror clauses. (Écologie)
  8. Keep defense outside the European single market. (Défense)
  9. Punish foreigners who break the rules and order them to leave the country. (Immigration)
  10. Refocus schools on the basics and raise teachers' status. (Éducation et jeunesse)

Campaign team

  • Vincent Guibert : President of La France républicaine et solidaire (formerly Engagement d'Arnaud Montebourg), supporter cited by AFP

Positions for the 2027 election, issue by issue

Energy

She makes energy sovereignty a priority and wants a state that controls electricity.

  • Renationalize EDF.
  • Keep hydroelectric dams in public hands.
  • Support nuclear power.
  • Introduce a floating fuel tax that follows prices.

Ecology and environment

It links ecology and agriculture, with standards imposed on imports and water planning.

  • Impose our environmental standards on imported products through mirror clauses.
  • Plan public water management: storage, managed irrigation and reuse of greywater.
  • Revive agroecology and reduce waste.

Immigration

She distinguishes between those who respect the rules, who are welcome, and those who break them.

  • Welcome foreign nationals who respect the rules.
  • Punish those who break the rules and, if they are not French, require them to leave.

Purchasing power

She promises a strong rise in wages and a fuel tax that tracks prices.

  • Raise wages by 20 to 30%.
  • Introduce a floating fuel tax rather than a VAT cut.
  • Maintain a windfall tax on oil profits.
  • Recalculate food inflation, which she considers underestimated.

Employment and work

She wants to reindustrialise to rebuild activity and makes public aid conditional on production in France.

  • Declare a “state of production emergency.”
  • Abolish company aid that is not conditional on production in France.
  • Launch a support plan for farm incomes and a new Egalim law.

Critical metals and industry

She places the State as protector of strategic sectors and French production.

  • Give priority to French production in public procurement.
  • Protect agriculture, energy, defence, pharmaceuticals and chemicals through the State.
  • Defend the car industry against Chinese competition deemed unfair.
  • Break with the dogma of free and undistorted competition.

Innovation and digital

It combines technological sovereignty and reshoring, without a detailed digital plan.

  • Develop robotics and artificial intelligence to bring production back home.

Pensions

No detailed position published at this stage.

    Health

    She places medicines among the strategic sectors to protect, without a detailed health programme.

    • Protect the pharmaceutical and chemical sectors through the State.
    • Reduce the country's dependence on other powers for its healthcare.

    Security and justice

    No detailed position published at this stage.

      Education and youth

      She wants a school refocused on basics, language and secularism (laïcité).

      • Return to structured teaching of reading, writing and arithmetic.
      • Revalue teachers.
      • Make secularism a pillar of the republican pact.

      Gender equality

      No detailed position published at this stage.

        Debt and public finances

        She is counting on reindustrialisation and state reform to restore the public finances.

        • Reindustrialise to increase state revenue.
        • Reform the state, including territorial administration.
        • Push the ECB to stop raising its interest rates.

        Europe

        She wants a more autonomous Europe and a France ready for a power struggle with Brussels.

        • Reject European policies that run counter to France's vital interests.
        • Consider suspending France's contribution to the European budget if France is under threat.
        • Reject the renationalisation of the PAC and defend Community preference.
        • Build a Europe that is autonomous from the United States, China and Russia.

        Defence

        She defends sovereign defence, protected from single-market rules.

        • Keep defense outside the European single market.
        • Protect the defence industry as a strategic sector.
        • Aim for European military autonomy in the face of major powers.

        International

        Elle prône une Europe autonome face aux grandes puissances et une diplomatie active sur l'énergie.

        • Faire pression avec les Européens sur les États-Unis pour finir la guerre touchant Ormuz.
        • Rendre l'Europe autonome face aux États-Unis, à la Chine et à la Russie.

        Latest statements

        • 2026-10-15, Paris International Motor Show, first trip as a candidate : « We must defend our industries and make sure we are not forced into unfair competition »
        • 2026-10-14, BFMTV, on the evening of the announcement, as reported by 20 Minutes : « Mayors are writing to me to sponsor me »
        • 2026-10-14, France Inter, La Grande Matinale, candidacy announcement : « I cannot keep watching my country collapse »
        • 2026-10-14, Remarks on agriculture reported by Pleinchamp, after the Sommet de l'élevage on 8 October : « She rejects renationalizing the PAC, which she describes as a “red line” for French farmers. »
        • 2026-09-15, Sud Radio, L'invité politique, before her declaration : « I am working out the conditions for being useful and for changing things. »

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        Updated: 2026-10-31T08:51+01:00