Le Pen Launches 2027 Campaign with Housing and National Priority Focus

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far-right Rassemblement National (RN), launched her 2027 presidential campaign in Hénin-Beaumont in September 2026. She made housing a central issue, promising a "great project" that would give French citizens priority access to social housing and calling for the repeal of the SRU law, which mandates mixed-income housing. Le Pen also said that under her leadership, all French people would be treated as a priority.

The campaign launch drew attention for her reliance on close family members and for a controversial comparison made on France Inter, where a RN victory in 2027 was likened to the Nazi takeover in 1933. Meanwhile, President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu have hit record low approval ratings, with only 16% and 20% of favorable opinions, respectively.