2027 Presidential Election: Elected officials urge French people from all political backgrounds to build a program together in 70 weeks

The website "Le Projet France" was just launched this June. The political leaders who came up with this idea believe they have reached the end of the line. They draw inspiration from the Yellow Vest movement and the registers of grievances.

What if you wrote the program of the next presidential candidate? This is what elected officials, including a former minister, are proposing on Thursday, June 12. The project is simply called "The France Project." When we talk about the next presidential election in 2027 , we talk a lot about the "who," about all these declared or undeclared contenders like Édouard Philippe, Gérald Darmanin, Gabriel Attal, Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, François Ruffin, Raphaël Glucksmann... The list could be even longer. But we forget the "what for."

Even if some candidates or potential candidates are already positioning themselves on this or that issue, necessarily influenced by their political color, there, elected officials, who support or have supported Emmanuel Macron, like the former Minister of Foreign Trade Olivier Becht, want to reverse things. They invite the French, from all political sides, to come and write a program, to build a new project for society together, in 70 weeks, starting now, to present a copy in the fall of 2026. This concretely means putting around the same sheet a voter from the National Rally, another from France Insoumise, the presidential party, the right, but also abstainers. Everything is done online, on a site that has just been created, with the objective of releasing an application, but for that, between 50 and 100,000 euros are needed. A fundraising campaign is organized.

We're seeing a bit of a resemblance to the principle of the grievance books. Olivier Becht was inspired by the Yellow Vest movement, frustrated that nothing was happening after the Great Debate. "Who wants it, come and go": everyone can write their own proposal, on all themes—health, education, purchasing power, security—with a vote organized every week to refine and develop a program.

Utopian or not, the project's founders believe they've reached the end of the line. "We've never spent so much money and it's never worked so badly," they say. They want to "recreate a dream, that of the 21st century, which could be the century of well-being." A life free from major diseases, with a healthy diet, in a healthy home, fulfillment at work, where we could take our children to school without fear of anything happening to them. Who would be against that? Their goal is to reach hundreds of thousands of contributions. For now, there are only about fifty. But as more and more French people want to be involved in the future, these elected officials are simply saying: why not?