Thirty-seven lists are candidates for the European elections on June 9 in France, three more than in 2019 and a new record. Political headliners, defenders of the environment or workers, regulars at the polls or illustrious unknowns, here is a non-exhaustive overview of what you need to know about these candidacies published on Saturday in the Official Journal.
Poll favorites
National gathering
The president of the RN Jordan Bardella, leading the 2019 poll (23.3%), is the big favorite in the polls, exceeding 30% of voting intentions.
Renaissance, Modem, Horizons
Valérie Hayer, president of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament and candidate of the Macronist majority, receives around 16% of voting intentions, the majority having obtained 22.4% of the votes in 2019.
Socialist Party and Public Square
The social democratic essayist Raphaël Glucksmann (6.2% in 2019) is hot on the heels of Valérie Hayer in the polls.
The challengers
Rebellious France
This is the second European election for MEP Manon Aubry, former spokesperson for the NGO Oxfam, as head of the Insoumis list (6.3% in 2019).
The Republicans
LR reappointed conservative philosopher and MEP François-Xavier Bellamy (8.5% in 2019).
The Ecologists (ex-EELV)
Lawyer and MEP Marie Toussaint has the difficult task of succeeding Yannick Jadot, third in 2019 (13.5%).
Reconquest!
Marion Maréchal makes her return to politics as head of the list of Éric Zemmour’s party.
French Communist Party
Léon Deffontaines, spokesperson for Fabien Roussel in the 2022 presidential election, will have to do better than the 2.5% in 2019.
Environmental defenders
Ecology at the center
The head of the list is Jean-Marc Governatori, candidate in the environmentalist primary for the 2022 presidential election (2.35% of the vote).
Positive ecology and territories
The center-right coalition brings together six parties behind Yann Wehrling, vice-president of the Île-de-France regional council, including CAP21, the party of former minister Corinne Lepage.
Equinox
It is the engineer Marine Cholley who heads the list of this party “launched by young people” which advocates the exit from fossil fuels.
Change Europe
This collective is led by MEP Pierre Larrouturou and his Nouvelle Donne movement, and the small Allons Enfants party.
Animalist Party
The party, already led by lawyer Hélène Thouy in 2019, created a surprise with 2.2% of the vote.
The sovereignists
The Patriots
The president of the party Florian Philippot and Jean-Frédéric Poisson, at the head of the Via movement, are leading a sovereignist coalition for France’s exit from the EU and NATO.
Republican Popular Union
The president of the UPR François Asselineau defends “Frexit”, France’s exit from the European Union.
We the people
Behind Georges Renard-Kuzmanovic, President of the Sovereign Republic, this list denounces “supranational structures” like the EU and NATO.
The left of the left
Workers’ struggle
The Trotskyist party presents itself with its spokesperson Nathalie Arthaud, head of the list since 2009.
New anti-capitalist party-Revolutionaries
This branch, resulting from the split of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) in 2022, is headed by Selma Labib, bus driver, and Gaël Quirante, trade unionist at La Poste.
Workers’ Party
The slogan of the Trotskyist party, led by Camille Adoue, 23 years old: “for bread, peace, freedom!”
Some other lists
Rural Alliance
The list is led by former presidential candidate Jean Lassalle (Resistons party), and the president of the National Hunters Federation Willy Schraen.
Europe Territories Ecology
The list of Guillaume Lacroix, president of the Radical Left Party, also includes Regions and Peoples in Solidarity, the Progressive Movement, the Citizens’ Movement, the Collective of Reforming Social Democrats and Volt France.
Defend children
This is the list of the president of the Parent and Child Rights association Gaël Coste-Meunier.
Europe Democracy Esperanto
Behind its vice-president Laure Patas d’Illiers, the movement, present in the European Union since 2004, wants to have Esperanto adopted as the common language of the European Union.
Free Palestine
The list is led by Nagib Azergui, president of the Union of French Muslim Democrats (UDMF), who had already participated in 2019 (0.13%).
Pirate Party
The party, present in the 2014 and 2019 elections, claims to defend individual freedoms, in particular freedom of expression on the Internet. Lawyer Caroline Zorn, municipal councilor in Strasbourg, is head of the list.
Free France
The singer Francis Lalanne and the controversial comedian Dieudonné, convicted 31 times in particular for racial insults and incitement to hatred, present their list as “an alternative to political dictatorship”.
The 37 lists filed with the Ministry of the Interior:
1. For a sovereign humanity
2. For real democracy: let’s decide for ourselves!
3. Proud France, led by Marion Maréchal and supported by Éric Zemmour
4. Insoumise France – Popular Union
5. France returns! With Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen
6. Europe ecology
7. Free Palestine
8. Animalist Party – Animals matter, so does your voice
9. Communist Revolutionary Party
10. Pirate Party
11. Need for Europe
12. Pace – Party of European citizens, for the European army, for social Europe, for the planet!
13. Equinox: practical ecology and democratic renewal
14. Positive ecology and territories
15. Asselineau-Frexit list, for purchasing power and for peace
16. Peace and degrowth
17. For another Europe
18. The right to make the voice of France heard in Europe
19. Workers’ struggle the workers’ camp
20. Change Europe
21. We the people
22. For a world without borders or bosses, urgent revolution!
23. “For bread, peace, freedom!” presented by the Workers’ Party
24. Europe is enough!
25. No! Let’s take charge
26. Fortress Europe – Nationalist Unit List
27. Wake up Europe
28. No to the EU and NATO, communists for peace and social progress
29. Rural Alliance
30. Free France
31. Europe territories ecology
32. The citizen hive
33. United left for the world of work supported by fabien roussel
34. Stand up for children
35. Ecology at the center
36. Representative democracy
37. Esperanto common language