For each issue, the candidates are grouped by the position they support. Expand an issue to read their proposals side by side, with the exact quotes from their programs.
All 12 candidates who published proposals
14 of 14 issues shown
Minimum sentences
Summary across all candidatesLe Pen, Philippe, Zemmour and Retailleau support for different scopes of offences. Retailleau specifies mandatory application without judicial discretion, so agreement in principle does not establish identical exceptions.
No proposal on this issue in the sources analyzed: Arthaud, Attal, Glucksmann, Lisnard, Mélenchon, Polony, Roussel, Ruffin.
Prisons
Build more prison places
Regulate the number of inmates
Summary across all candidatesLisnard, Le Pen, Zemmour and Retailleau propose additional capacity; Zemmour announces 100,000 prison places. Mélenchon favors regulating prison populations. Polony’s dedicated short-sentence prisons are compared with other short-sentence proposals, while educational centres for minors are not automatically equated with prisons.
No proposal on this issue in the sources analyzed: Arthaud, Attal, Glucksmann, Philippe, Polony, Roussel, Ruffin.
Juvenile justice
at 16
at 15
Abolish the special code and reduced responsibility
Summary across all candidatesLe Pen and Lisnard propose at 16, while Retailleau proposes 15. Zemmour wants to abolish the juvenile justice code and reduced responsibility for minors; closed educational centres are a different issue and do not by themselves establish an age threshold.
No proposal on this issue in the sources analyzed: Arthaud, Attal, Glucksmann, Mélenchon, Philippe, Polony, Roussel, Ruffin.
Cannabis
Yes, legalize it
Debate it in a citizens' convention
No, punish users
Summary across all candidatesMélenchon proposes legalizing cannabis under a state monopoly, Glucksmann proposes leaving the question to a citizens' convention, while Philippe wants to firmly punish users.
No proposal on this issue in the sources analyzed: Arthaud, Attal, Le Pen, Lisnard, Polony, Retailleau, Roussel, Ruffin, Zemmour.
Drug trafficking
With exceptional powers
No proposal on this issue in the sources analyzed: Arthaud, Attal, Glucksmann, Le Pen, Lisnard, Mélenchon, Polony, Retailleau, Roussel, Ruffin, Zemmour.
Police self-defense
Yes
No proposal on this issue in the sources analyzed: Arthaud, Attal, Glucksmann, Lisnard, Mélenchon, Philippe, Polony, Retailleau, Roussel, Ruffin, Zemmour.
Weapons used in public order policing
Allow dispersal grenades for municipal police
Ban mutilating weapons
Ban lethal weapons at school student protests
Summary across all candidatesPhilippe wants municipal police to carry dispersal grenades during riots. Mélenchon wants to ban those grenades, stun guns and rubber-bullet launchers. Glucksmann calls for a ban on weapons he describes as “lethal” at high school student protests, without listing them.
No proposal on this issue in the sources analyzed: Arthaud, Attal, Le Pen, Lisnard, Polony, Retailleau, Roussel, Ruffin, Zemmour.
Offenders repaying damage
Summary across all candidatesLisnard seeks full repayment for damage to public property; Le Pen and Retailleau propose joint or collective liability for rioters. Zemmour wants perpetrators and, for minors, their parents to pay: the mechanisms differ but share the repayment principle.
No proposal on this issue in the sources analyzed: Arthaud, Attal, Glucksmann, Mélenchon, Philippe, Polony, Roussel, Ruffin.
Sentence enforcement judge
Summary across all candidatesPhilippe, Zemmour and Retailleau all propose abolishing this role. Their agreement concerns its existence and does not establish that they would reorganize sentence enforcement in the same way.
No proposal on this issue in the sources analyzed: Arthaud, Attal, Glucksmann, Le Pen, Lisnard, Mélenchon, Polony, Roussel, Ruffin.
Short sentences for first offences
Yes, with different scopes
Summary across all candidatesPhilippe proposes short sentences for first offences; Retailleau specifies first serious offences. Polony also supports short sentences for first-time offenders in dedicated prisons: the offence thresholds and facilities differ.
No proposal on this issue in the sources analyzed: Arthaud, Attal, Glucksmann, Le Pen, Lisnard, Mélenchon, Roussel, Ruffin, Zemmour.
Summaries cover all candidates and are written neutrally. Positions are those of the official sources analyzed, as of the date shown on each quote. Methodology
