Overview
- Arthaud announced the candidacy in Paris after a weekend party congress vote confirming her as LO’s nominee.
- This will be her fourth run for the Élysée after 2012, 2017 and 2022, when she drew roughly 0.56% to 0.64% of the vote.
- LO will field municipal lists in 250 towns next year, with Arthaud herself set to run in Pantin in Seine-Saint-Denis.
- The party promotes banning layoffs, raising wages and expropriating banks, claims 8,000 members, and Arthaud presented the campaign as the workers’ voice while criticizing the return of military service and higher defense spending.
- The far-left landscape remains fractured as the NPA’s 2022 split into rival groups clouds its ability to present a unified presidential contender.