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Philippe Poutou is a 55-year-old man running in the 2022 French Presidential elections. He was born on March 14. 1967, in Villemomble, France. He is a far-left politician and is a former trade unionist. He was a candidate for the Revolutionary Communist League in 2007. He stood in the 5th constituency, but only got 2.7% of votes, so his party didn't gain a seat in the National Assembly. He ran for president in 2012. He admitted that he didn't care about running or winning then, and said one of his policies was to abolish the presidency, in favor of a fully parliamentary system. He ran again in 2017.  In a televised debate on 4 April 2017, he denounced "corrupt politicians" and advocated for lower salaries for elected officials. He then verbally attacked other candidates and one threatened to sue him.

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Éric Zemmour is a 63-year-old man running in the 2022 French Presidential elections. He was born on August 31, 1958 in Montreuil, France. He is part of Reconquête, which is a far-right French political group. He is a political journalist and author. He announced his candidacy on Youtube. He has 721 out of the needed 500 signatures. He was fined for incitement to racial discrimination in 2011 and for incitement of hate against Muslims in 2018. He believes that France's native population will be replaced by non-European people. He is Jewish. He also worked on/starred in many shows.

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Fabien Roussel is a 52-year-old man running in the 2022 French Presidential elections. He was born on April 16, 1969, in Bethune, France. He is part of Parti communiste français, which is the French Communist Party. He went to high school in the Paris region of France. He started his career as an image reporter at the Ardennes regional branch of the French television channel France 3. He is a Member of Parliament, representing the Nord. He became a party leader in 2018. He participated in major demonstrations against the Monory law and the Devaquet bill. They are related respectively to employee shareholding and university organisation. His partner is a civil servant of category C.

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Valérie Pécresse is a 54-year-old woman running in the 2022 French Presidential elections. She was born on July 14th, 1967, in  Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France. She is in the French Republican Party called Les Républicains. She won the Congress of Republicans on December 4th of last year. She has over 5 times the number of needed signatures with 2,556 signatures. She has more signatures than the current president, Emmanuel Macron. Mrs. Pécresse was the Minister of Higher Education and Research from 2007 to 2011. She has law degrees from HEC Paris and ENA. She can speak 4 languages: English, French, Russian, and Japanese. She was a member of the French National Assembly, and represented Yvelines from 2002 to 2007.

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Marine Le Pen is a 53-year-old woman running in the 2022 French Presidential elections. She was born on August 5, 1968, in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France. She is in the Rassemblement national (National Rally). She is a member of the National Assembly, and represents the Pas-de-Calais’s department. She was a member of the European Parliament from 2004-2017. She exceeds the needed 500 signatures, with a total of 603 signatures. In the 2012 presidential elections, she placed third with 17.9% of the votes. She ran again in 2017, having 33.9% of the votes in the second round. She ultimately lost to the current French president, Emmanuel Macron. She was a supporter of Vladimir Putin, and had closer cooperation with Russia before their invasion of Ukraine this year.

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Jean-Luc Melenchon is a 70-year-old man who is running in the 2022 French Presidential elections. He was born on August 19, 1951, in Tangier, Morocco. He is part of La France Insoumise (Unbowed France). He is a former senator and is a Member of the European Parliament. He has 837 signatures, which means he meets the requirement of the 500 signatures. He joined the Socialist Party in 1976. He left it in 2008 and formed the Left Party. He was the coalition's candidate in the 2012 presidential elections, and came fourth. He has a degree in philosophy which he got from the University of Franche-Comte. He was a teacher before he entered politics.

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Emmanuel Macron is a 44-year-old man running in the 2022 French Presidential Elections. He was born on December 21, 1977, in Amiens, France. He is in La République en Marche, and is the current president of France. He has a master's degree in public affairs, and he founded his current political party. He used to be in the Socialist party (2006-2009) but then founded La République en Marche, a centrist and Pro-European movement. Mr. Macron was appointed a deputy secretary-general by President François Hollande shortly after his election in May 2012. Later, he was appointed to the French Cabinet as Minister of the Economy, Industry, and Digital Affairs. While he had this position, he petitioned a number of business-friendly reforms. He is the youngest president in French History, and he won his election with 66% of the votes. During his presidency, Macron has overseen several reforms to labor laws and taxation.

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Jean Lassalle is a 66-year-old man running in the 2022 French Presidential elections. He was born on May 3, 1955, in Lourdios-Ichere, France. He is a former member of the centre party, MoDem and is a representative of the Pyrénées-Atlantique department. This year, he is running for the Résistons, a party he founded and has led since he left MoDem in 2016. He has 620 signatures, surpassing the needed 500. He held the mayorship of the commune of Lourdios-Ichère from 1977 to 2017. He is empathetic, which has been proved by many things he has done. For 8 months, he walked around France and met people, learning their views on the government and life itself. He also went on a 39-day hunger strike to protest a threat to jobs in his constituency. This is his second run for presidency.

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Yannick Jadot is a 54-year-old man running in the 2022 French Presidential elections. He was born on July 27, 1967, in Clacy-et-Thierret, France. He is in the Europe Écologie Les Verts (Europe Ecology - The Greens), and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009. He was also the former campaign director for Greenpeace France. He has 189 more signatures than required, bringing to him a total of 689 signatures. He is a figure of environmental change in France, and he has served on the Committee of the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety since 2019. He is also a part of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights. He was going to run for presidency in 2017, but withdrew before the signature collection period, although he had 496 guaranteed. He then supported the socialist Benoit Hamon, and they have an alliance. He announced that he would be running in this year's election on January 30th, 2021, and beat the other member in his party with 51.03% of the votes.

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Anne Hidalgo is a 62-year-old woman running in the 2022 French Presidential elections. She was born on June 19, 1959, in San Fernando, Spain. She is the current mayor of Paris and has 1,387 signatures, which is more than double the required amount. She is in the Parti socialiste, which is a French Socialist Party. She has dual French-Spanish citizenship, and her parents live in Spain while her sister lives in Los Angeles. During her first term in the mayor's office, there were 3 brutal attacks. There was the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the November 2015 Paris attacks, and the Bataclan Theater massacre. In 2020, she was re-elected despite being able to secure a majority of the votes. She is publically against the Socialist Group, but she is helping with housing in Paris. She aims for 30% of Paris to be socially housed by 2030.

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Nicolas Dupont-Aignan is a 61 year old man running in the 2022 French Presidential elections. He was born on March 7, 1961 in Paris, France. He is in the Debout la France (France Arise), and is the son of a wine maker who served in World War II. He is a member of the French National Assembly, and is the former mayor of Yerres. Like Ms. Arthaud, he ran for presidency in 2012 and 2017, but he endorsed the runner-up Marine le Pen in the second round of the 2017 elections. Mr. Aignan joined his political party in 1993, which is 9 years after obtaining his law license. While he was mayor of Yerres, he did many things to help the town. They were in a 45 million euro debt, and he was able to lower it to 34 million, then continued to lower the debt by cancelling infrastructure and creating communal housing. He also helped Yerres become more eco-friendly by using reprocessed swimming water to clean the streets. His environmental policies won awards, and Yerres had a lower crime rate than the rest of Essonne.

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Nathalie Arthaud is a 52 year old woman running in the 2022 French Presidential elections. She was born on February 23, 1970 in Drome, France. She is in the Lutte ouvrière (Worker's fight), which is a socialist party in France. She is an economics teacher and was the former local elected representative. She became interested in her party during her high school years, and officially joined when she turned 18. In this election, she has 570 signatures, which surpasses the required 500. She has ran for government positions a total of 4 times. In 2012, 2017, and 2022, she has ran for presidency, and in 2019, she ran for parliament. In 2017, she was one of the first 5 candidates to submit the needed 500 signatures, however she placed tenth. In 2012, she placed ninth, and in 2019 she didn't place as 0.76% of all votes cast.