Nathalie Arthaud : présidentielle 2027

Lutte ouvrière · Spokesperson of Lutte ouvrière, high school economics teacher

Statut : Declared on 8 December 2025 at a press conference in Paris, after a vote by the congress of Lutte ouvrière. Campaign launched on 19 September 2026 in Nantes. Fourth candidacy.

Born in Peyrins (Drôme), Nathalie Arthaud succeeded Arlette Laguiller as spokesperson of Lutte ouvrière in December 2008. A candidate in 2012, 2017 and 2022, she won between 0.56% and 0.64% of the vote.

Average first-round voting intention: 0,5 %.

Sondage présidentielle 2027 : toutes les intentions de vote pour Nathalie Arthaud

Nathalie Arthaud: ten key proposals

  1. Raise wages, pensions and benefits by 300 to 500 euros, to at least 2,200 euros net, indexed to real prices (Pouvoir d'achat)
  2. Ban redundancies in all their forms (Travail et emploi)
  3. Share work among everyone by reducing working time, without loss of pay (Travail et emploi)
  4. Expropriate the major shareholders without compensation or buyback, starting with oil and arms (Métaux critiques et industrie)
  5. Refuse the 36 billion euro top-up for the army and redirect the 10 billion euros earmarked for the aircraft carrier to hospitals and schools (Europe et défense)
  6. Hire massively in healthcare, Ehpads, education and transport (Santé)
  7. Make the bourgeoisie pay for the public debt, by taking from the profits of large companies (Dette et finances publiques)
  8. Guarantee a pension at least equal to the last salary, financed entirely by employers (Retraites)
  9. Regularise all undocumented migrants and guarantee freedom of movement and settlement (Immigration)
  10. Lift trade secrecy and publish the accounts of large companies, their subsidiaries and parent companies (Institutions)

Positions for the 2027 election, issue by issue

Energy

Nathalie Arthaud has not published a position on the electricity mix and targets the profits of energy companies.

  • Expropriate the shareholders of the oil industry without compensation.
  • Confiscate the profits of "war profiteers" for the benefit of hospitals and schools.
  • No detailed position published on nuclear power or renewables.

Ecology and environment

Nathalie Arthaud links the ecological crisis to capitalism and calls for global planning (2022 programme).

  • Plan energy production under the control of the population (2022 programme).
  • Introduce free public transport (2022 programme).
  • Fight intensive livestock farming and ban hunting with hounds (2022 programme).

Immigration

Nathalie Arthaud defends the regularisation of all undocumented migrants and freedom of movement.

  • Regularise all undocumented migrants.
  • Guarantee freedom of movement and settlement.
  • End deportations.

Purchasing power

Nathalie Arthaud demands a massive increase in wages, allowances and pensions, indexed to prices.

  • Raise the SMIC to at least 2,200 euros net per month.
  • Index wages, allowances and pensions to real price increases.
  • Reduce working time without loss of pay.

Employment and work

Nathalie Arthaud proposes sharing work among everyone to eliminate unemployment (2026).

  • Share work among everyone to eliminate unemployment (June 2026).
  • Reduce working time without loss of pay or dismissals.
  • Raise the SMIC to at least €2,200 net (August 2026).

Critical metals and industry

No measure published on critical metals. Nathalie Arthaud targets layoffs and the ownership of large groups.

  • Ban layoffs and share work among everyone.
  • Expropriate large capitalist groups and entrust their management to workers.
  • Plan production.

Innovation and digital

Nathalie Arthaud has not published any measure on digital technology.

  • No detailed position published at this stage.

Pensions

Nathalie Arthaud condemns the rise in the retirement age without setting a target age.

  • Sharply increase pensions.
  • Index pensions to real price increases.
  • No specific retirement age in its published proposals.

Health

Lutte ouvrière calls for massive hiring in hospitals, financed by confiscating profits.

  • Confiscate the profits of “war profiteers” to fund hospitals and schools.
  • Create hundreds of thousands of jobs based on needs identified by staff.
  • Fight budget cuts and the decline in reimbursement of care and medicines.

Security and justice

Lutte ouvrière presents no security programme and criticises the role of the police and the lack of justice resources.

  • Denounces “round-ups” targeting undocumented migrants and racism in the police.
  • Notes the lack of justice resources, particularly for rape victims.
  • Does not “rely on laws or on the police and justice” to fight racism.

Education and youth

Lutte ouvrière calls for massive funding and the hiring of tenured staff in education.

  • Billions for schools and their adaptation to global warming.
  • Recruitment determined by the needs expressed by staff.
  • End the use of contract staff who are “precarious and underpaid”.

Gender equality

Lutte ouvrière links gender equality to the fight against exploitation.

  • Demand equal pay: « À travail égal, salaire égal » (8 March 2026).
  • Call for resources for abortion and health services (8 March 2026).
  • Denounce violence against women and the precarity of women workers (8 March 2026).

Debt and public finances

Lutte ouvrière denounces a debt driven up by aid to employers and aims for the expropriation of big capital.

  • Abolish inheritance of large companies and large capital (August 2026).
  • Confiscate the profits of « war profiteers ».
  • Lift business secrecy and make the financial flows of large groups transparent.
  • Expropriate shareholders without compensation, starting with the oil and arms industries.

Europe

Nathalie Arthaud opposes a European Union she considers serving capitalists.

  • Against “Fortress Europe”: freedom of movement and settlement (2026).
  • Rejects building a European army (February 2026).
  • Disputes the idea that the EU has guaranteed peace on the continent (2024).

Defence

Nathalie Arthaud opposes rearmament and the return of national service.

  • Reject the €36 billion additional funding for the army and the new aircraft carrier.
  • Denounces a defence budget that rose from €32 billion to €63 billion between 2017 and 2027 (September 2026).
  • Opposed to the new “national service” (September 2026).
  • Denounces arms deliveries to Ukraine (2023).

International

Nathalie Arthaud dénonce les guerres comme des affrontements entre puissances capitalistes.

  • Juge qu'une guerre entre États-Unis et Chine porterait sur les marchés et les ressources (2023).
  • Dénonce le soutien américain et européen à Israël à Gaza et au Liban (2026).
  • Condamne le raid américain au Venezuela (février 2026).
  • Dénonce la présence militaire et l'exploitation de l'uranium du Niger par la France (2023 et 2026).

Latest statements

  • 2026-10-29, Interview on Le Média (video shared by Lutte ouvrière) : « The world of work must rush into the breach opened by young people »
  • 2026-10-26, BFMTV : « I am convinced that on less than 2,200 euros net a month, one cannot live a decent life today »
  • 2026-10-24, BFM, after the 17 October mobilisation : « I call on people to join the demonstrations in the days and weeks that follow »
  • 2026-10-22, ICI Bourgogne, campaign trip to Dijon, on the high school student movement : « This surge of youth, we did not see it coming »
  • 2026-10-16, BFMTV : « It is through our collective struggles that we can move all of society forward »

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