Matthieu Pigasse will not be a candidate in the 2027 presidential election.

Matthieu Pigasse has put an end to the speculation. The banker and businessman has indicated that he will not be running in the 2027 presidential election, scheduled for April 18 and May 2. This clarification comes during a lengthy interview with Guillaume Pley, which lasted nearly two hours. The businessman thus clarified his position a few months before an election that promises to be wide open, in a political context fragmented since the dissolution of the National Assembly by Emmanuel Macron on June 9, 2024.

An election without an incumbent president

## An election without an incumbent president

The 2027 presidential election will take place without an incumbent candidate. Emmanuel Macron, elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2022, is constitutionally barred from running for a third consecutive term. The 2008 constitutional law and Article 6 of the Constitution limit the president to two successive terms. This absence reshuffles the political landscape, already disrupted by the snap legislative elections of 2024, which resulted in a National Assembly without an absolute majority. The lack of a dominant bloc increases the uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the presidential election.