Nicolas Dupont-Aignan : présidentielle 2027

Debout la France · Mayor of Yerres, president of Debout la France

Statut : Declared. Intention announced on 8 March 2025 (CNews), confirmed on X on 23 April 2026; campaign launch on 19 September 2026 in Yerres (Fête de la Liberté). Fourth candidacy. Slogan: “Priorités France!”

Born in Paris, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan founded Debout la France in 2008 and was deputy for Essonne from 1997 to 2024. A candidate in the 2012, 2017 and 2022 presidential elections, he became mayor of Yerres again in March 2026.

Average first-round voting intention: 2 %.

Sondage présidentielle 2027 : toutes les intentions de vote pour Nicolas Dupont-Aignan

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: ten key proposals

  1. Hold a referendum on France's membership of the European Union (Europe et défense)
  2. Introduce the citizens' initiative referendum (RIC) to allow the people to vote their own laws (Institutions)
  3. Build 40,000 prison places and recruit 20,000 additional prison officers (Sécurité et justice)
  4. Lower the age of criminal responsibility to 16 and introduce mandatory minimum sentences for assaults on police officers (Sécurité et justice)
  5. Reserve 75% of public procurement for products made in France, starting with 50% in the first year (Métaux critiques et industrie)
  6. Require ten years of residence and three months of compulsory civic service for naturalisation (Immigration)
  7. Keep nuclear power at at least 70% of electricity production, dropping the target of 50% by 2035 (Énergie)
  8. Halve corporate tax on profits reinvested in France (Fiscalité)
  9. Abolish inheritance duties on the first 100 hectares transferred and have the State guarantee 50% of installation loans (Agriculture)
  10. Restore an egalitarian baccalauréat and revise the Parcoursup algorithm (Éducation)

Positions for the 2027 election, issue by issue

Energy

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan wants to leave the European electricity market and abandon wind power.

  • Cut electricity prices by 50% by leaving the European market.
  • Abandon wind projects (DLF 2024 programme).
  • Scrap aid for wind turbines and solar panels, estimated at 12 billion euros.

Ecology and environment

Debout la France rejects constraints on car use and wants to protect French agriculture from imports.

  • Abolish low-emission zones (January 2026).
  • Repeal the European ban on new petrol and diesel cars from 2035.
  • Ban the import of agricultural products banned in France for health or environmental reasons.
  • An agricultural exception at the WTO, with countervailing duties against dumping.

Immigration

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan wants to leave Schengen and abolish birthright citizenship by referendum.

  • Reinstate border controls outside Schengen with 10,000 officers.
  • Abolish birthright citizenship by referendum while maintaining naturalisation.
  • Replace AME with one emergency dispensary per department.
  • Strictly limit family reunification and make economic immigration conditional on unemployment levels.

Purchasing power

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan proposes large cuts in taxes on fuel and basic goods.

  • Cut the price of a litre of fuel by 40 cents.
  • Apply a 0% VAT rate to essential products.
  • Raise wages by 8% up to three times the SMIC through lower employee contributions.
  • Raise family allowances and index them to inflation.

Employment and work

Debout la France wants to limit competition from posted workers and reduce charges on youth employment.

  • Abolish the posted workers directive (November 2024).
  • Exempt from charges for one year the first job of anyone under 26 (October 2026).
  • Two days of telework for parents of children under three (January 2026).
  • An “F-H” label with contribution reductions for pay equality (October 2025).

Critical metals and industry

No measure published on critical metals. Nicolas Dupont-Aignan advocates “smart protectionism”.

  • Reserve 75% of public procurement for products made in France.
  • Create a 4 billion euro fund to relocate factories to rural areas.
  • Block at customs imports that do not meet French standards.
  • Strengthen the Montebourg decree against foreign takeovers of strategic companies.

Innovation and digital

Debout la France is betting on a sovereign cloud and AI funded by the state.

  • Create a sovereign AI fund financed by the state and BPI.
  • Deploy an ultra-secure sovereign cloud.
  • Create a National Agency for the Ethics and Security of AI.
  • Strictly regulate data transfers outside France.

Pensions

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan has not set a legal retirement age and proposes targeted measures on pensions.

  • Give every newborn a retirement savings account of 10,000 euros.
  • Oppose any cut to survivor's pensions.
  • Restore the tax exemption on pension supplements for parents of three children.
  • Ease the validation of pension quarters for spouses of craftspeople, shopkeepers and farmers.

Health

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan defends the hospital network and incentives for setting up practice in medical deserts.

  • Immediately halt maternity ward closures.
  • Guarantee everyone access to a hospital with an emergency department.
  • Abolish the ARS and redistribute their responsibilities.
  • Sharply cut contributions for doctors setting up practice in medical deserts.

Security and justice

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan proposes more staff, more prison places and army support at the borders.

  • 10,000 additional police officers and gendarmes, net, over five years.
  • 40,000 prison places in decommissioned barracks converted for the purpose.
  • Presumption of self-defence for police officers.
  • Deploy the army at the borders to relieve law enforcement.

Education and youth

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan defends equal access, civic education and digital literacy teaching in schools.

  • Abolish Parcoursup (October 2026).
  • Priority for French students in university financial aid (October 2026).
  • Compulsory training for teachers in artificial intelligence.
  • Monthly flag-raising ceremony in every school.

Gender equality

Debout la France proposes local emergency shelter for women victims of violence.

  • Create one emergency shelter per intercommunality for women victims of violence.
  • Categorically reject surrogacy (GPA).

Debt and public finances

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan targets about 130 billion euros in savings and targeted VAT cuts.

  • About 130 billion euros in savings and a deficit below 3% by 2032.
  • 0% VAT on essential products (October 2026).
  • Remove the VAT applied to the fuel tax (TICPE).
  • Revalue and index to inflation the direct-line inheritance allowance.

Europe

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan proposes leaving the European Union.

  • Leave the European Union to “restore France's independence” (September 2026).
  • Thus save the €15 billion of the net contributor balance.
  • Definitively reject the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement.
  • Restore national borders (2024).

Defence

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan wants to leave NATO and strengthen national capabilities.

  • Raise the defence budget to 2.5% of GDP.
  • Leave NATO, “in full agreement with Trump” (September 2026).
  • Move to 20 frigates and 250 Rafale by 2030, abandon the SCAF.
  • Three-month compulsory civic national service, with a one-year military option.

International

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan veut une paix négociée en Ukraine et une réconciliation avec la Russie.

  • Paix négociée : neutralité de l'Ukraine et référendum au Donbas (septembre 2026).
  • Fin des sanctions contre la Russie et réconciliation avec Moscou (septembre 2026).
  • Mettre fin aux aides à l'Ukraine, chiffrées à 7 milliards d'euros par an.
  • Cesser de “moraliser” les partenaires africains, coopérer avec l'Inde, la Chine et l'Indonésie.

Latest statements

  • 2026-10-28, Petition and video published on his campaign website : « He opposes a government amendment to the “casseurs-payeurs” law that would allow social networks to be blocked without prior judicial decision. »
  • 2026-10-23, Interview on BFMTV : « Let us offer the French a genuine and calm debate »
  • 2026-10-22, Interview on LCI : « Macron is no longer fit to preside »
  • 2026-09-19, Launch speech in Yerres, reported by Europe 1 : « We must decolonise France »
  • 2026-09-19, franceinfo, launch day of the campaign : « I will be the only candidate who proposes to leave this prison that is the European Union »

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