Presidential election 2027: Bruno Le Maire would not vote for either Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the second round

Bruno Le Maire assures that he would not choose either Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the event of a duel between the two in the second round of the 2027 presidential election. "A lesser evil is still an evil," affirms the former Minister of the Economy, who is publishing this Sunday a manifesto outlining his vision for France.

In an interview with Le Parisien, Bruno Le Maire rejects the notion of a vote by default. "We are not condemned to this second round," he asserts, while expressing little conviction, at this stage, regarding the candidacies of Édouard Philippe, Gabriel Attal, or Bruno Retailleau. "If a leader with a clear vision had emerged, there wouldn't be so many candidates," he argues.

A manifesto that resembles a program

In his "Manifesto for Another France," the former Minister of the Economy and Finance advocates, among other things, the restoration of state authority, production and labor, as well as a more independent Europe vis-à-vis the United States and China. He also proposes an immediate increase in the minimum wage, more referendums, a legal retirement age of 65 with a funded component, and the de-indexing of certain pensions, social benefits, and the income tax scale.

Bruno Le Maire insists, however, that he is not a candidate at this stage and presents his text as a contribution to the 2027 debate. He wants to propose a path that he describes as opposed to the "new communitarian France" of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and to the "little France" of Marine Le Pen, before, he says, achieving unity around the "best candidate".