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They started as 40, maybe a bit more. Ten of them are making headlines: François Bayrou, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ségolène Royal, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Philippe De Villiers, Arlette Laguiller, Olivier Besancenot, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Dominique Voynet, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. While waiting for the eleventh to be the candidate of the anti-liberal left. We should not overlook a surprise within the UMP despite the primaries (Jacques Chirac? Dominique de Villepin? Michèle Alliot-Marie?)
They participate in debates, their ideas are known, commented on. Obviously, some of them will feel that they don’t have the same platform as front-runners Sarkozy and Royal, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, and Jean-Pierre Chevènement are chasing the 500 signatures to validate their candidacy. But what about the other thirty? Who are they? What are they hoping for? Some names are known: Bruno Mégret, Antoine Waechter, Stéphane Pocrain, and two Niçois Alain Mourguy and Jean-Marc Governatori.
They are royalists, ruralists, federalists… Their deep convictions lead them to hope to present themselves to the French citizens’ votes. For many, this candidacy offers them the opportunity to defend their noble cause like the disabled, poverty, or retirement.
It would be too lengthy to detail the programs and CVs of all these candidates. Nice-Première nevertheless invites you to get to know them a bit better through the Internet.
The Niçois:
–Jean-Marc Governatori, 47 years old, president of the “France in action” movement: https://www.lafranceenaction.com/jmg/jmg.htm
–Alain Mourguy, 58 years old, president of the left-right union: https://www.elysee2007.org/
Already candidates:
–Antoine Waechter, 57 years old, president of the Independent Ecological Movement (MEI), candidate in 1988 (3.78%): https://www.mei-fr.org/antoine
–Bruno Mégret, 57 years old, president of the National Republican Movement. Candidate in 2002 (2.34%): https://www.bruno-megret.com
–Corinne Lepage, 55 years old, president of Cap 21, former environment minister from 1995 to 1997. Candidate in 2002 (1.88%): https://www.cap21.net/
–Jacques Cheminade, 64 years old, president of “Solidarity and Progress.” Candidate in 1995 (0.28%): https://www.cheminade2007.org/
The Others:
–Yves-Marie Adeline, 46 years old, president of the Royal Alliance: https://www.adeline2007.fr/
“Having a king as head of state is a unity guarantee for a country, a way to strengthen its identity while preserving the diversity of its communities. See Belgium, Spain, England, which do not fear extensive decentralization, which federate sometimes antagonistic communities, because the figure of the king unites them.”
–Jean-Philippe Allenbach, 58 years old, former leader of the Federalist Party: https://www.allenbachpresident.org/
“The crisis we are experiencing today mainly comes from the fact that France has become too small to solve major problems and too large to address minor ones. As a result, the State is increasingly failing at a time when there have never been so many expectations! If we want to be able to meet the needs of the French, we need to completely redistribute power and money between regions, France, and Europe, based on the main criterion of the best service for citizens (principle of subsidiarity).”
–Yves Aubry, 38 years old, to enable RMI beneficiaries, the poor, to live decently: https://www.yvesaubry.net/
“How to find happiness when one does not have a job, or when living in a confined space, not knowing what to eat at night, or having neither job, housing, nor enough to eat one’s fill? Money being the backbone of development, and taxes not being well distributed, I propose a radical transformation of income tax – withholding – through a tax on money flows. This will allow money to be fairly collected, regardless of its origin – work, capital, real estate, … – on one hand, and allow the liberation of creative energies by reducing employee and employer charges on the other. The absence of these basic elements for many of us is all the more deplorable since others live in opulence.”
–Yvan Bachaud, 67 years old, retired, advocate of the citizen initiative referendum: https://www.yvanbachaud2007.info/entreznb.htm
“Since despite 6 changes, the deep and salutary reforms France needs have never been adopted by a completely discredited Parliament, acting in a short-sighted way, exclusively by partisan and culpable electoralism, I demand that citizens can finally, through a citizen initiative referendum (RIC), directly propose to the people either to repeal all or part of a law or to give legal force to deep and equitable reform proposals they have – themselves – crafted.”
–Michel Baillif, 62 years old, president of the National Disability Federation: https://www.retraite-invalide.org/
–Robert Baud, 57 years old, for a “majority of minorities in moral and social suffering”: https://robert.baud.free.fr/index.htm
–Leila Bouachera, 45 years old, project manager at the CSA.
–Soheib Bencheikh, 45 years old, former grand mufti of Marseille: https://www.elanrepublicain.net/News.htm
“I, the Muslim theologian, doctor in religious sciences, director of the Higher Institute of Islamic Sciences… I want to take advantage of this national debate to defend secularism. When I was the grand mufti of Marseille, I refrained from revealing my political sensitivity. But today, I say it: I am on the left and I am dismayed by the ruin of left ideals. And notably by the threats to the 1905 law on secularism.” (In an interview with our colleagues from Charlie Hebdo)
–Roland Castro, 64 years old, architect-urban planner, founder of the “Concrete Utopia Movement”: https://www.utopiesconcretes.org/blog/
Here are his 89 propositions: https://www.utopiesconcretes.org/propositions/
–Christian Chavrier, 40 years old, president of the Federalist Party: https://www.christian-chavrier.eu/static/index.html
“This project embodies a true societal choice: finally breaking with an archaic system that stifles territories, condemning citizens to ‘beg,’ forcing them to delegate all their powers to elites that foster cronyism and clientelism, and deepening inequalities.
The highly centralized French culture has run its course, our country is among the last not to apply federalist principles!”
–Romdane Ferdjani, 59 years old, retired chief warrant officer: https://www.ufcn.org/
“With you, through your help, I do not want to fight against the left, nor against the right, I simply want to fight for France. For a France where it is good to live. For an eternal and sovereign France, proud to belong to a Europe of nations, united in their diversity.”
–Edouard Fillias, 27 years old, president of Liberal Alternative: https://www.edouard-fillias.fr/
“Giving individuals the possibilities and means to make their life choices. The society of free choice that I promote is one where the French have the fair opportunity to make the key choices in their lives, for themselves or for their children. The project I carry will only come true through the realization of the aspirations of all and each individual.” He is the youngest candidate.
–France Gamerre, 64 years old, president of Generation Ecology: https://francegamerre.fr/
Program in progress.
–Jean-Michel Jardry, 56 years old, vice-president of the National Center for Independents and Peasants (CNI): https://www.cni.asso.fr/Private/Accueil.htm
–Jean-Paul Le Guen, 63 years old, apolitical.
-Michel Martucci, 75 years old, president of the National Confederation of CID unions (artisans, traders): https://www.contribuableucf.net/
“It is an obvious fact that must determine politics: a country that collects more than 84% of its tax revenue from its businesses and their wages condemns them and commits suicide. Because such taxation is both the most foolish because it constantly raises prices and socially unjust because it is, at 84%, an indirect tax on consumption that weighs more heavily on the poor than on the rich.”
–Nicolas Miguet, 45 years old, president of the French Taxpayers’ Assembly: https://www.miguet2007.com/
“It will not be a matter of reforming the system, but changing it. This will involve an immediate modification of how the necessary public charge is levied. Today, revenues are taxed at a maximum rate of 26% (including ‘social’ levies) when it comes to capital gains from investments and 64% (including CSG and CRDS) when it comes to revenues from capital, pensions, or work. It’s unfair and counterproductive. This prompts talents to desert France, to go to EU countries where they are less taxed. As a result, revenues decrease or stagnate.” Nicolas Miguet bases his entire program on tax reform. The previous quote is just a slight glimpse.
–Rachid Nekkaz, 34 years old, president of the “Club of Go France Elected Officials” (500 signatures obtained): https://www.nekkaz.com/
“For 2007, my program is to form a non-partisan national union government representing all political trends in the country and to jointly address France’s deep problems, as there are good ideas everywhere.”
–Frédéric Nihous, 39 years old, director of Hunting Fishing Nature Traditions (CPNT): https://www.cpnt.asso.fr/Pres2007/pres2007-01.php
–Jean-Christophe Parisot, 39 years old, president of the Disabled Democrats Collective: https://www.cdh-politique.org/
–Stéphane Pocrain, 33 years old, founder of the Representative Council of Black Associations of France (CRAN): https://www.lecran.org/
–Gérard Schivardi, 56 years old, mayor of Mailhac (Aude) and departmental councilor, supported by the Workers’ Party: https://www.parti-des-travailleurs.org/index.php
He succeeds Daniel Gluckstein. “Founded in 1991 by militants of all tendencies in the labor movement, the Workers’ Party works for the construction of a genuine independent workers’ party. It fights for the recognition of class struggle, for the secularity of school and state, for the repeal of the anti-democratic institutions of the Fifth Republic, and for the reciprocal independence of parties and unions. There are four currents in the Workers’ Party: the socialist current, the communist current, the anarcho-syndicalist current, and the internationalist communist current (Trotskyist). Each member is free to be organized or not in one of these currents.”
–Lucien Sorreda, 64 years old, candidate for “raising incomes from below”: https://perso.orange.fr/presidentielle2007/Intro_ie.htm
His particularity: he wants a republican dictator. “The Republican Dictator is the one who commits to respecting and ensuring compliance with republican laws, the rights of man, and the constitution (
The laws, which align with the rights of man and citizen, and the constitution, which defines each person’s rights and duties, must be accepted by all citizens, regardless of their origin, religion, political affiliation, socio-professional status, or responsibilities in state management. Better a good dictatorship than a bad democracy.”
–Eric Taffoureau-Millet, 43 years old, president of “Attention! Handicap”: https://attentionhandicap.over-blog.com/
